Speedplay Pedal Thread

The body also wears and so does the backing plate but slower than I break springs.

I now have a cupboard full of spring-less cleats. So that's great. More waste and £50 a pop.

Might contract someone to make me a batch of 10000x of them.

You don't have to buy a new car when the tyres go bald. Or a new coffee grinder when the burrs wear out. Fuck Speedpray.

Might contract someone to make me a batch of 10000x of them.

Dibs if you'll split

I wouldn't sell them on, that would be illegal (maybe, I have no fucking idea). But there's nothing stopping me getting copies made in the first place. Yo, personal use, bro.

If they’re flat spring steel they’d be very easy to draw / have laser cut.

I carried two cleats and all the mounting hardware for TCR7.

It's a simple piece yeah. Where's Tester with his engineering buddies when you need him?

If you gave me some for free, making no profit from them and I made a charitable donation to your beer fund, I'm sure that's kosher

Hey @gbj_tester

What happened to mdcc and do you have any idea what it would take/cost/involve to get someone to copy a Speedplay C-spring?

I haz skills

Sounds like a plan.

You make 'em I'll test 'em.

Tester can tell us the right steel to use.

What happened to mdcc

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15370800/incontext/

do you have any idea what it would take/cost/involve to get someone to copy a Speedplay C-spring?

Take one to a spring manufacturer, they have all the experience in analysing samples and making copies. Not something I've ever got around to pricing up, but be warned that spring making is nearly all tooling and set up, so the first one might cost £500 and the next thousand 10p each.

That's only 10 sets of cleats. Maybe I'll start looking for spring makers.

X type or Zero? The X looks like a piece of bent wire, which a spring shop could replicate quite easily. The Zero seems to be a relatively complex stamping, which will be much more expensive for item one, but still only pennies per unit once you get into making thousands.

http://www.sosltd.co.uk/laser-cutting/

Zero. Yeah, it looks like it's pressed. From memory they have a little star or something on one side but I've also run them backwards in the other shoe with no problems.

I think the stamping has a chamfer on it for clicking in, so laser (or water jet) cutting would either need grinding as a second operation or a 5-axis cut out.

Given the long history of Speedplay refusing to offer the easily broken but cheap part as a spare, I'd have switched to a different pedal manufacturer by now as a matter of principle. The wire spring would be a perfectly profitable line at $5 a pair, the stamping maybe $10 as the production generates an order of magnitude more scrap.

I'd have switched to a different pedal manufacturer by now as a matter of principle

I've disliked Speedplay from the start but have you got better suggestion for midfoot?
I've not seen any.

have you got better suggestion for midfoot?

You jest, but I've actually got flat pedals on the Kinesis right now, testing them out.

They're manageable but a bit annoying. Every bump I hit my foot slips.

These huge blue Catalyst things...

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You jest

Nope.

Well, let's qualify it then. Any suggestions for better clipless pedals?
Double-sided is nice but SPD and other MTB pedals don't work due to the requirement for side pods to stabilise the system. Speedpray's MTB system looked promising but they appear to have abandoned it.

Got those in the commuter. They’re good.