Anyone have any experience with these

i've got plenty of experience with usage errors, if you know what i mean.


wait a sec, did i just say that?

i hate how one out of every four posters can't title threads appropriately.

what pedal is this?

i can't get behind origin 8. personally, i not only wouldn't trust those pedals, but i would expect them to spin like crap and break very quickly.

sp00ki is murder

no experience with them, because one can get used LOOK road pedals, in good condition, for $cheaps.

So true.

Why go for Look clones? You can get brand new Keo Classics for $55 online. 105 SPD-SL is pretty affordable as well.

spooki, why are you are always such a



And the pedals are origin 8 Pro Pulsion series

sp00ki I want to play you in online bomberman. Just because your avatar reminds me of bomberman everytime.

I want to play against him in real life Bomberman.

i'm really tempted to get the Time RXL pedals. as far as i can tell, they're the same exact thing as the RXS, except marketed toward female riders.

i inadvertently wound up with the female specific time atac mtb pedals last year and i'm convinced they are exactly the same as the regular ones.

man, i just really like the fact that they're baby blue.

Dude those are totally gonna 'splode! The metal alloys are not formulated to withstand male stinkfoot.

I rode both looks and SPD-SLs and went with the shimanos. If for nothing else, the cleats are WAY easier to walk in.
Did look fix that problem with the keo or are the cleats still just a piece of hard plastic?

And if anyone is worried about pulling out of the shimanos (Lance and a few other pulled out of theirs during the tour a few years ago and people have been scared of them since), Theo Bos rides them now.

haha, very clever.


the only difference i've heard claim of is that the release tension was designed for lighter riders to clip in easier, but they say this is done by lowering the spring tension mechanism.

normal time pedals tend to claim to have a higher spring tension attained by - wait for it - raising the spring tension mechanism!

perhaps deep down there is some merit to this, and since i want a pair for track season, i'm probably not gonna go with them just to be safe. (also the '08 models totally don't match my bike)

Yeah, those look like Bontrager knocks off of Shimano/Dura Ace's design.

Tim, yeah for '08 the Keo cleats now have grippy rubber on the bottom.

Im sure the Bontrager/Ritchey/Whatever pedals will work pretty well. But My money goes to the tried and true original developers (I run Keos).

Look Keo cleats just *recently* fixed that. Too bad though, i already switched to the '08 SPD-SL's. Huge, huge improvement over last years model.

For ~ $55 105 SPD-SL's off PBK. You really can't beat that. It's almost cheaper to buy a new set of pedals than to buy replacement cleats for them.

Unless they are ridiculously cheap, I wouldn't buy them. Buy ridiculous I mean free.

Those are J&B Importer's premium house brand, Origin 8, Look Keo knockoffs.

Lance didn't pull out. He had wreck when he got his by a child's handbag. He just hopped back on his bike, and chased after Ulrich, and never really got his foot back in. That was in 2000, and those were with SPD-R pedals. SPD-SL was only introduced in 2002, I believe. Maybe 2003.

As for Theo Bos, he doesn't use SPD-SLs, he uses SPD-Rs, as do most sprinters at the international level.