You'll get over them soon enough.

I run 520 on my road bike. I mainly ride a 35 mile paved national recreation trail way out in the desert and I like to get off my bike to scramble to the top of hills for better views. The 520 are a fine precision product. While you are at REI, take a look at these companion shoes. The clips do not tough the marble floors at my job, they are well ventilated and have ample traction in the tread. Great shoe.
http://www.rei.com/product/810725/pe...ike-shoes-mens
After I get in some hiking today I'll ride the motorcycle over to REI and pick up a couple stealth blinkies I ordered last week. My guess is that's not all I'll walk out with.
Tomorrow I ride that River Mountain Trail. GREAT weather for the 3 day weekend.
BTW, I ride Wellpro BMX pedals on my commuter.

I've had a set for 4 years now and have used them on and off on commuting bikes. I like them. If you want to take the bike out w/o cycling shoes you can, but if you want the clipped in speed you can do that as well. Good winter pedals as well.

That sounded bad on my part. What I was referencing is the never ending pain in the ass of hunting the side of the pedal you want to use.

No need to hunt.

The A530s hang with the mechanism side toward the back after they're broken in. To click in push the top of the pedal forward and down with the toe of your shoe. Works almost all the time. Once you've practiced it a bit, it becomes 2nd nature.

And if you do end up on the wrong side of the pedal? Big deal. Pedal on until it's convenient to flip them.

A couple thousand miles is not much of a test. I would hope any quality pedal would be still considered new at 2000 miles. I still have some of the original spds that were used for at least 20,000 miles of muddy mountain biking and racing. They were then used for a 4200+ mile tour a couple other 1000-ish mile tours and a lot of general riding. They needed to be taken apart and repacked/adjusted at that point, but are still going strong.

Dammit, you sold me. Sounds like the perfect commuter pedal, spd for speed, platform for comfort/flip-flops/summertime.

M530 pedals, definitely.

I went with the M324 which looks more like a conventional pedal with platform on one side and SPD on other. So far so good. Just put them on last week.

I know it's a bit late but I would recommend A520 pedals, too. Those are what I have. It's single sided cleat, but the alloy frame makes it easy for "test rides" when you have to tweak something like a derailleur and you have street shoes on.

Eggbeater pedals are notorious for breaking. I bought a bike that came with Eggbeater Candy C pedals and the pedal spindle broke in less than 1000 miles.
I investigated on the Internet and I'm not the only one.

The M520 has been my main pedal for years and years. A great pedal.

I have have some A530s but they are not as nice to use. I only ride clipless. The A530s are kinda' bulky and it's easier to hit you leg on them.
The M520s are not bad to ride with non-SPD shoes if you're not going far.

I think that this thread is better with pictures ;) :

PD-M324
http://bike.shimano.com/publish/cont...bm.512.384.gif

PD-A530
http://bike.shimano.com/publish/cont...bm.512.384.gif

PD-M530
http://bike.shimano.com/publish/cont...bm.512.384.gif

PD-M520
http://bike.shimano.com/publish/cont...bm.512.384.gif

PD-M540
http://bike.shimano.com/publish/cont...bm.512.384.gif

+1 I've never had a problem with "wrong side". Aside from being able to run to the store in any shoes I like switching one foot to the platform in stop and go traffic. When traffic clears up you can switch the pedal and be clipped in without looking down.

I get the impression a lot of people are not aware that for 2012 Shimano introduced a full line of "All-Mountain" pedals which are all double-sided, and have a perimeter structure:

PD-M985 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html
PD-M647 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html
PD-M424 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html
PD-M785 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html
PD-M545 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html
PD-M530 http://www.shimano.com/publish/conte..._mountain.html

I just got my a530s yesterday, and if you're pedaling with regular shoes on the clip side it isn't terribly comfortable, but it'll definitely give you time to get going to flip the pedal (so the M530 would be bad unless in clipless shoes). I wouldn't recommend it for longer than a block.

I just put on a set of pd-m324's 4 days ago with some MTB clipless shoes. I love that the m324's have a bigger pedal side because it definitely helps out in some of the more technical areas of my group ride (only did the ride once with the shoes and pedals so far and it was great!) Dont have to worry about missing the pedal or the cleat sliding off