[Leethal]

so I broke another set of Flats -Eastons to be precise and this time I broke my collarbone to go along with the crappy pedals. Any chance these things will ever see production and will they truly be stonger? Ideally I would love to get a set in the next 8 weeks.... when I get this stupid figure 8 brace off.

 

[Smelly]

broken collarbone's suck. done mine 3 times. this is such a crappy time of year to do it, too. how bad of a break is it?

 

[Leethal]

showed all the way through almost at a 45 degree angle but thankfully was back in position and did not need reset...

Hopefully my followup x-ray at 4 weeks will show I will fully healed by week 6...

Yep timing could not have been much worse but hey I guess I will miss the DOG days of summer...

 

[Leethal]

spring 04 came and went....

 

[John P.]

We're working on it . . .

This was discussed a couple of weeks ago in this thread, too:
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90057

Good luck with the collarbone.

--John P.

 

[dw]

sorry to hear about your collarbone man! that sucks

Our factory is hard at work on the pedals, but the fact is that the design is so much different (internally) than anyting that they have ever built that it caused some delays getting tooled up to build. Add the material crisis on top of that, and we are talking about a hopeful Interbike release. We will see how it goes. My "not-willing-to-settle-for-less" attitude definitely causes delays sometimes, but it really seems to work out after everything is done and things work as planned. One thing is for certain, once we know that the pedals are on the way, we will let you guys know!

Thanks a lot for all of the support and patience. You guys rock.

Dave

 

[BMXman]

sorry to hear about your collarbone man! that sucks

Our factory is hard at work on the pedals, but the fact is that the design is so much different (internally) than anyting that they have ever built that it caused some delays getting tooled up to build. Add the material crisis on top of that, and we are talking about a hopeful Interbike release. We will see how it goes. My "not-willing-to-settle-for-less" attitude definitely causes delays sometimes, but it really seems to work out after everything is done and things work as planned. One thing is for certain, once we know that the pedals are on the way, we will let you guys know!

Thanks a lot for all of the support and patience. You guys rock.

Dave

ok so I'll just pick mine up at Interbike....D

 

[Leethal]

Sweet... I re-read my post and I was a little crabby--my painkillers aren't really doing the job and sleeping has been rough...

 

[dw]

Sweet... I re-read my post and I was a little crabby--my painkillers aren't really doing the job and sleeping has been rough...

its tough, i broke mine last summer, 4 pieces. It was messed up. You think it sucks now, wait until you havr to take a shower. Oh man, so much pain you get a head rush.

dw

 

[Macrider]

I'm anxious for those pedals - my Wellgo's are working for now, but it pisses me off everytime I look at my $230 worth of AtomLabs gathering dust in a corner...sucls about the collarbone - the minute my Atoms got ANY play I took them off for fear of what happened to you - doing a 12' gap on a hardtail the last thing you want to think about is: "I wonder if these pedals are going to self destruct on the catch?"

Hey DW - will I be able to order my Sovereign raw (I'd love to have it painted to match my other frames)?

 

[James | Go-Ride]

Just out of curiosity, what failed on your pedals? I've got the Eastons on my Saber and I don't know that they fit into the "crappy" category. The tricky thing about flat pedals is the incredible amount of load they undergo vs the small bearings they have to use. Once the pedals start to develop play in the bearings, they need to be replaced, otherwise your pedal body could come off the spindle, and it starts getting wallowed out which eventually causes the body to fail and have the spindle break out of it.

I'm always somewhat suprised when I hear people bashing on what low quality the bearings are in pedals like the Eastons, Atomics, Azonic A-frames, etc. Sure they don't last forever, but when you think about the loads pedals deal with vs the size of the bearings used to make them low-profile (read: to make them feel "sticky"), it makes sense that eventually they're going to fail. I'm interested to see how the new Atomic stuff pans out with the bushings instead of bearings.

 

[.MTBsSd.]

any idea of a general price-range?

 

[Acadian]

I've had a few pairs of Easton Cully’s go bad on me, but never fail catastrophically? That is crazy!!

I've been using this pair of Tioga MX pedals for the past year and a half, and I'm amazed at how tuff they are!!

 

[in the trees]

I've got a pair of old KORE platforms that are badly trashed but still going strong. A few missing pins and plenty of gouges and scrapes, but still original bearings even with wet New England weather. I am awaiting the e-13s though as replacements.

 

[spookymilk]

those new Syncros pedals are looking pretty rad....should see how they perform, 2 cartridge bearings, center mounted needle bearing, 14 replaceable pins and a cast steel body with a stainless model in development

 

[bagtagley]

Ahh man, broken collarbones don't hurt that bad.
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As long as you don't cough, laugh, sneeze, swallow, breathe, move, wink, etc.

Heal up fast, man. You'll be back at it in no time.

 

[Leethal]

The first two both bent on the non drive side what is weird is one set is on my DH bike which takes a lot of pedal abuse the second set is on my bmx bike which the pedals barely get scratched I never do any drops and hardly ever even case on the bmx bike.

Anyhow I was racing at the Southpark National (BMX) and mis-jumped the triple step and launched over the backside heard a crack and kept going... in the final I jumped the triple and cleared it but as I landed the pedal and spindle seperated and I went down-- it essentially looks like the bearing and very end of the spindle failed--the worse part is pre-final I noticed some play and when I mean some very little (1/16 inch) and even considered doing a swap with a friend not in the final... guess I should have listened to my conscience...