askrom

Anyone here use Crank Brothers Eggbeater pedals for road riding? They are often classified under "mountain" components, but that seems like marketing mostly.

Anyway, the new Quattro SL Road Pedals, which include a platform around the traditional eggbeater mechanism, are supposedly targeted more towards road riders, but I am skeptical that the platform makes any difference over the non-platform models except that they might permit riding with sneakers occasionally.



Because I ride my road bike in the city a lot, I need to clip in and out frequently. So a pedal with four points of engagement sounds appealing to me.

Any thoughts on this question? Thanks!

-Cf

Talewinds

I've seen many road riders using them. Small pedal, 4 points of engagement, sounds good to me, except for the limited float.

tekhna

I use the Eggbeater candies, and I really like them. I like having the bit of platform to reduce hotspots. I do wish they had a bit of float, but I am not too worried about it right now.

Portis

Yep I do. I use them on my mountain bikes too.

travis200

I have them on my CX race bike and my back up CX/rain bike and I love them.

bung

I use them on my road bike. I've also noticed that alot of SS/Fixed road riders use them too.

djtrackie

I use the CB Candy and they work well. I use a road shoe with the Quattro cleat with them. However, they do take a bit of aiming to click into. Clipping out is easy. Because of the aiming thing, i'm looking at getting some Speedplays to get clipped in faster in traffic.

Paniolo

I rode std eggbeaters on the road the last 2 years. Originally got for commuting and loved the ease of entry/exit. Occasionally on longer high output rides I would get some hotspots.

When my shoes wore out in Dec I decided to try some Look keos. I slightly prefer the Looks when clipped in and have had no hotspot issues with regular 60-70 mile rides. They are much harder to clip into though, and actually caused a fall when I couldn't get clipped in and tried to pedal through a fast light before clipping in.

Tequila Joe

I use CB Egg SL on my Roadie, CB Egg C on my Commuter and CB Mallets on the MTB. All my shoes/cleat work on all bikes. Some folks report "hot spots" using mountain SPD's, but I haven't experienced any. A stiff sole has a lot to do that. I use Sidi Actions & Specialized Mountain Comps.

T.J.

thewalrus

I have the Candy SL on one bike, and the no-platform Eggbeater C on another... they work well for me. The main downside to these pedals is the brass cleat, if you habitually unclip one foot to stop in traffic (for me, the left foot), that side will develop more float faster than the other cleat. Replacement cleats are cheap, like $14 for a set.

CardiacKid

I use Eggbeaters on my road bike. I have used them in a century and several metrics. I think the Candy/Quattro/Mallot design is more for marketing. Most, if not all of the force is going to be transferred thru the cleats, otherwise you wouldn't be able to lock in.

Tequila Joe

I haven't used Candy or Quatro but the the Mallet provides a great platform to pedal on when I unclip to ride through the "You fall, you die or get injured badly" situations while mountian biking.

T.J.

thewalrus

The rubber on the bottom of my shimano mountain shoes does contact the body of my Candy SL pedals, it feels a little bit stiffer than the non-platform eggbeater C. I think the Mallet's length and metal grip-teeth at front and rear edges do interface more with shoes that have aggressive tread, such as this pair of Adidas:

CardiacKid

I agree with that, but that is only for short distances, because you still have the eggbeater part sticking up.
As far as the original post inquired, you probably can use tennis shoes for short rides on the platforms, but I wouldn't try anything over a few miles.

Trev Doyle

Seems to me that Freddie Rodriguez rode on those pedals on his Moser when he was with the Aqua& Sapone team, he also won the USPRO championship on the "MTB" pedal.

I am pretty sure anyways.

Hemlock

I switched to the standard eggbeaters from spds. I like them much better, clipping in and out is way easier. I thought about the one side wearing more as I also commute and unclip one foot a lot more than the other. The cleats are reversible (which changes the amount of float), so I may just try swapping sides when I get noticable wear. I've put about 2000 miles on them so far and it hasn't happened yet.

SAB

The standard eggbeaters do indeed have around 7-8 degrees of float, you just need to put in the cleats the correct way to accomplish this. I have ridden up to 125miles on at one time on my cross bike with the standard eggbeaters with no problem.

Ramjm_2000

I also use eggbeaters on all mine and my wifes bikes (cross, MTB, and road). For road I recommend getting stiff soled shoes (like sidis) and their road or quatro cleats (one has a brass cleat with forged plastic covered pontoons and the other is a one piece cleat like speedplay). I have yet to have hotspots with this combination.

toshi

I use the stainless eggbeaters on my roadie. Love 'em. Relatively light, easy in/out, just enough float for me.

Surferbruce

another eggy fan. i run the beaters and the candys on all my bikes. to me the platform of the candys doesn't contribute a lot. i find the eggbeaters slightly easier to get in, and just as good (or bad) with tennis shoes for a very (VERY) short ride.

SteveAZ

I use the Mallet's on my mountain (you definitely make contact withe the rest of the pedal on these), the Candy SL's on my roadie (they're now on my wife's bike) and eggbeaters have been on my fixed and are now on my roadie. I just did a crit race with them and my mountian shoes today ...no problems.

Paniolo

That was another reason I wanted to try another system ... I always seemed to get between 1500 and 2000 miles on a set of cleats. My wear was always on the inside, on the front of the cleat, where the brass contacted the steel of the pedal. I would get a little bit of slop in the pedal first then I would start blowing out of it around the 11:00 position of my pedal stroke. I did rotate cleats which would help me get closer to 2000. Wear was always on the right cleat, cause of an old knee injury my right side tends to pedal toe down. Seems like I usually paid around $19 for cleats ... $24 for Quattro's which were supposed to be harder and wear a little longer.

Lucky07

I've got the Quattros. They work great. Tons of float, stable platform and the eggbeater entry. You can find them on Froogle for as little as $92 bucks new. Or new on ebay for 60-70 bucks.

$0.00/Gal

I use LOOK 4x4s (exact same thing as eggbeaters. I think LOOK bought the rights to make em) on my track bike and on my road bike and I love them. Those Quattro SLs look hot though.