Which mks pedal

The less expensive pedals are assembled by hissing pneumatic tools. The finished pedals drop into buckets with loud clanks. Even here, an employee checks the final bearing adjustment by hand. The Keirin pedals, on the other hand, have silky-smooth bearings right out of the box. You open the top flap, and then flip open the box like a book.

Each pedal has its own little compartment. Keirin racers use toeclips and straps, so MKS also makes what I think are the best toestraps. Two layers of glove-soft leather sandwich a layer of anti-stretch Nylon. Adjusting them to a comfortable snugness is enough to prevent your feet from coming out of the clips even when you climb out of the saddle or sprint in a Keirin race. MKS even makes cleats that work with modern 3-bolt LOOK-style shoes, removing one further barrier of entry into the world of toeclips and straps.

They also make more affordable toestraps with just a single layer of high-quality leather, as shown above. I am on the fence about toeclips and straps. On the one hand, I love the classic appearance and incredible quality of these MKS components. I have a set of touring bicycle shoes that work with toeclips and allow me to walk. But for all-out efforts, I prefer a more rigid connection to the pedal, which requires cleats that make walking difficult.

So for randonneuring, I prefer SPD-style pedals and shoes. If you have several bikes that you enjoy for their different feel and ride, at least one of them probably should have traditional pedals. For riding in street shoes, half-clips are a great option.

They locate your feet during the downstroke which is where you put out all your power anyhow. And on bumpy roads, they prevent your feet from sliding off the pedals. After the factory tour, we meet with the engineers and the president of MKS.

We decide to import some of the pedals, straps and cages that MKS already makes. And we hope to collaborate on future projects. In the mean time, click here for more information on the MKS components we sell. Jan Heine. Good luck with your future collaboratons! Lake used to make a touring shoe with a walkable sole that would take a Look style 3-bolt cleat. The sole was too stiff to comfortably walk any distance, but they worked better off the bike than standard road shoes, and better on the bike than two-bolt cleats.

After 20, miles you just put in new bearings and fresh grease and you have a new set of sweet pedals. These are my most popular seller and they only get better with use. I assume you are talking about the less expensive MKS pedals. The bearings in the top-of-the-line MKS pedals we sell should last a lot longer than 20, miles and spin a lot smoother. Great looking pedals. Kudos on the new line-up! Sounds like a good plan — thank you!

The welded steel rod half-clips look beautiful and are compelling me to try them on the MKS Sylvans on my city bike. But in the description above, you state they are made from stainless steel. On your Compass site, it states they are made from chrome-plated steel. Are they chromed steel or stainless? Thank you for catching that error. The Cage Clips half-clips are stainless, the standard toeclips are chrome-plated.

Love that Lyotard-like pedal with the cool wire clips! MKS always made incredible stuff. You know what you could do to perfect the Urban Platform? For riding in street shoes, I find these much more comfortable than cage clips or any other kind of retention device, and I have never had problems with my feet slipping on a pinned pedal.

Even with a high bottom bracket 60mm drop , you still get the clip scraping on startup. The back foot pulls out on climbs, even with the Binda Extra strap cinched up. In the winter, I just switch over to the double-sided Shimano MTB pedals and use the same set of shoes. Great for standing starts in snow, you do need the mud-clearing capability when the bottoms of your shoes are covered in snow and ice. I do use clipless now on most of my bikes, but I was one of the last racers to still ride with toestraps.

The straps reduce the circulation in your feet. It also encourages you to learn to trackstand. The vast majority of modern toeclip users are in sneakers, and wondering why the pedal cages are so prominent and uncomfortable! You really ought to take a look at the insides of modern high end Shimano pedals, the quality is incredible. The preload adjustment is entirely separated from the custom bolt that holds the body onto the spindle.

The whole spindle and bearing assembly can be cleaned and adjusted outside the body instead of in that confined space. You are right, MKS makes a locking cleat with a little lever. It locks into the rear of the pedal cage — a photo is here. Very interesting. Wonderful pedals! I do use their Campy Record copies on a couple of my vintage bikes.

The only odd thing is that these more basic MKS pedals always arrived with the bearings distinctly tight. Hard to believe that this tightness was intentional. The basic MKS pedals are sold at a very low price, so they cannot put as much care into their manufacture.

Of course, if you adjust them yourself, and perhaps replace the grease and the ball bearings after the bearings have ground themselves in, they will be fine. The initial whine would quickly quiet down to a smooth hum and you were ready to disassemble, flush out the compound and put fresh best grade balls in place of the factory ones. Fresh Campy grease and a careful adjustment and we were convinced we had the best pedal to be had.

I still like to have one nice roadbike with clips and straps and downtube friction shifting since it seems like a shame to let those old skills we used to take so much pride and satisfaction from wither away. We were 17 and 18, Hard Men indeed…. Congratulations on the latest addition to Compass offerings. I have the Urban Platforms and mostly like them. The GR-9 are easier to clip in and out of. The GR-9 tab is lower on the pedal, creating a compound lever when the pedal is hanging down.

The Urban Platform has a larger surface space for the foot, which provides more comfort. These pedals also look nicer. This seems like a good topic for a BQ article: What makes a good pedal? In the s the standard was Campagnolo Record with toeclips, straps and leather-sole shoes with nail-on cleats. With the advent of the mountain bike, plastic toe clips and aggressive pedal cages became popular. Clipless pedals were a great revelation, or so it seemed.

In retrospect, each of those once-accepted standards seems of questionable value. My preference has evolved in response to market trends and personal experience.

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