Pedals can feed your shoe fetish.....

.....just sayin'

Not that I know this....

He's the best reason to carry a frame pump I've met. Fun to ride with, and the flat is a given.

I have a plethora of saddles.

And I have to take all quill pedals and triangular pedals off any bike I ride, so they end up in the drawer. Those pedal designs are painful for me.

I quietly look for interesting Campagnolo pedals from time to time. I now have what I think are all four generations of the Superleggerri pedals, and one set of Super Record.

The never buy when you really need pedals are the pairs with French Threads.

The pedals most likely to stay in the box? Cinelli M71's. I forgot where they came from!

I'm a collector of 80's vintage road bikes. Mostly from Japan. It seems that most of the bikes I get have these horrible little "quill" (?) type pedals. (One side of the pedal curves up & terminates in a sharp point). I absolutely hate these painful things. So, I routinely replace them with nice flat MKS style platform pedals. Ahhhh. So much nicer. But now, I'm hoarding a big box full of these crappy little quill pedals. I need help letting go.

Clipless on all but one roadie, the others are caged or flat.

Anyone want to dump a set of Look clipless (or any of the knock-offs), they will get a good lube and a nice place to live; easy duty, given the rotation of 10 roadies.

My biggest stash is crap padded saddles.

BITD, it was fairly common practice for people with wide feet to either use track pedals, or simply cut the quills off their road pedals to make faux-track pedals like these:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/gipiemm...ack-pedals.jpg

Offer them up in the "For Sale" or Want to Trade" areas. If there are any KKT Pro-Ace or MKS "Unique" or such like among them, I'm sure there'd be some interest.

Neat idea. Chopping the tips off never crossed my mind. Wow. Time to go dig the 4" high speed angle grinder out & try it out. Thanks.

Ya Never know... I still use old Look "Delta" style pedals .... wouldn't hurt to have a few spares.

I think you have to be specific. Look has had two or three (incompatible) variants, right?

Original Delta (dating from late 80s), 3 hole, red or black plastic cleats. Copied by many, several variants on the shape and colors of the pedal body. No Keo.

For old style aluminum cleats and new shoes - get Look compatible (3-bolt) shoes and Exustar track cleats. Exustar makes two versions of the track cleats. One is a simple slotted cleat not too different from the Pavarins of the '70s. ~$20. Uses the right ans left bolts of the shoes, but not the front. The other is a pure velodrome specific cleat for match srpinters that locks you foot in and costs ~$75. Not what you want.

The simple $20 cleats are easily the best slotted cleat I have ever used. Now, it was using those scleats and toestraps wearing velcro strapped shoes on my fix gear and riding 30,000' vertical Cycle Oregons that I started to run into chronic foot issues. (Infections.) Solution? Cut off the straps, install grommets and shoelaces. End of problem.

Toe clips, straps, real aluminum slotted cleats, laced shoes and LOOK-style cleat adjsutability and ease of replacing. The best of both worlds, old and new. Slotted cleats, the original no-float or "zero" cleat/pedal system.

Ben

I have too few steel rat traps, and mid to lower end alloy pedals. Somehow I ended up with a surplus of plastic kids and BSO models - that's what happens when you donate a lot of stuff, they want complete bikes, not parts.

One way I deal with the pointy part of a quill pedal digging into the edge of my 11EE gunboats is by clamping that point in the vise and just bending it over flat to the outside, making that part of the pedal a bit wider.

I've got at least one pair, maybe more. I'm looking for some MKS Touring pedals. PM me if you've got something else to trade.

I've got a set of the Shimano knock-offs on Craigslist. The delta cleat style. I'll send you a pm when I get to my computer. I could possibly use a soft saddle in decent shape for my brother, but really need a good couple sets of touring pedals for my two current builds.

Nope, just the right amount, Torrington Stars, Sheffield Sprints, Lyotard Marcel Berthets, Fulltone Plimsoul...

Maybe this will morph into the Great Pedal Trading Thread. :)

I think having too many of something is cyclical. Sometimes I don't have enough pedals other too many but no saddles or too many saddles and no stems.

One invariant in my experience - no matter how much of various components you have, when it comes down to actually building up a frame, you'll almost certainly be missing something crucial. :)

Let's do it. If one cyclephile's pedal junk is another cyclephile's pedal treasure, it will be worthwhile. Any predictions?

Pedal junk, pedal treasure

I suspect that many of the people claiming to own "junk" pedals they've accumulated and no longer use, won't be willing to part with these treasures.

I'm not even sure what I have. I was going through stuff and organizing it the other day and I found some brand new parts (stems, pedals, etc) that I don't remember buying. I think that's a sign of a problem...

I personally love quill pedals, especially the Campagnolo ones or the MKS copies of them.