£200+ on pedals?

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£200+ on pedals?
portlyone
Full Member

Anyone here use pedals that cost north of £200 like the Syntace NumberNine’s on the Fresh Goods?

Posted 9 years ago

Gary_M
Free Member

I’ve got some on my sunday best road bike, didn’t pay £200+ for them though.

Posted 9 years ago

edhornby
Full Member

ye gods no, the law of diminishing returns definitely kicked in on these even if they are very nice.

M520s are my friends 🙂

Posted 9 years ago

honourablegeorge
Full Member

Still not as outrageous as Park charging FORTY POUNDS for that pick set.

Posted 9 years ago

njee20
Free Member

Anyone here use pedals that cost north of £200 like the Syntace NumberNine’s on the Fresh Goods?

Not flats, but I have carbon/ti Keos on the road bike, and Egg Beater 11s on the MTB. Not like they really wear out.

Why?

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
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I’m still wondering when one started ‘hurtling’ a set of wheels.

Posted 9 years ago

Edric64
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MTB pedals have never cost me more than 20 quid

Posted 9 years ago

tomhoward
Full Member

I’ve got some on my sunday best road bike, didn’t pay £200+ for them though.

this

Posted 9 years ago

jools182
Free Member

I know someone who most probably has spent that much

Posted 9 years ago

portlyone
Full Member

Not like they really wear out.

Why?

Just seems like a lot of money for pedals. I can’t help but think that if when I win the lottery I will upgrade loads of bits that I don’t really need to but can. I still won’t buy £200s worth of flat pedal.

Posted 9 years ago

teamslug
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Guilty 😳 eggbeater 4ti’s…that was before the recession and no they havent fallen apart. I have 4 pairs going on my bikes and never had a problem…guess i’m lucky

Posted 9 years ago

andysredmini
Free Member

A friend has some syntace on his nomad. Lovely pedals but they haven’t lasted well. They started creaking after a few months that led to the lbs changing the bottom bracket twice under warranty. He gave up trying to stop it and carried on riding. Turned out it was the pedals. They had loads of play and creaked with a similar noise to a knackered bottom bracket. He is unhappy now as you need an expensive special tool to inject grease in to keep them running nice.
He loves them but I doubt he would buy them again.

Posted 9 years ago

njee20
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How can you love an item that fail in basically their sole duty? Do you mean he feels duty bound to like them, because they were expensive, but they’re actuslly shit?

Posted 9 years ago

andysredmini
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He likes the slimness size and weight but not the durability.

Posted 9 years ago

noltae
Free Member

I thought a ton was extravagant enough for flats ..

Posted 9 years ago

dirtyrider
Free Member

I’ve got some Twenty6 Prerunner pedals, they were not cheap

Posted 9 years ago

butcher
Full Member

^ They look dangerous.

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
Free Member

^ They look dangerous.

Coming to a shin bone near you.

Caution: Contains gore.

Posted 9 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
Free Member

DR, there’s a great bar right by where Twenty6 are based.

I love Bozeman. What a place!

Njee,

How can you love an item that fail in basically their sole duty?

Says the man with Eggbeaters, pedals which regularly fail in that they need way too much servicing, rebuilding, etc. Get some Times on there.

Posted 9 years ago

dirtyrider
Free Member

Brooklyn Machine Works Shinburger – i had these, cost a fortune back in the day, really heavy, naff all grip in the wet

Posted 9 years ago

MTB-Rob
Free Member

Pick set for about £40 going rate,

Posted 9 years ago

njee20
Free Member

Says the man with Eggbeaters, pedals which regularly fail in that they need way too much servicing, rebuilding, etc. Get some Times on there.

I chuck a new set of bearings in every 2 years or so, total cost £6 and 15 minutes of my time. Never broken a set or had them fail in any way. I can live with this. Not sure what constitutes “too much servicing, rebuilding, etc”

I did snap the body on a pair of Carbon Keos, which was irksome.

Posted 9 years ago

imnotverygood
Full Member

sole duty
Geddit? Snigger

Posted 9 years ago

Dibbs
Free Member

I saw a thread the other day asking if Garmin Vector pedals would be available for MTB’s. £1300 makes those above look like a positive bargain.

Posted 9 years ago

njee20
Free Member

But unfair that though, Vectors are rather more than ordinary pedals.

Posted 9 years ago

mindmap3
Free Member

£200 for a set of pedals is pretty outrageous.

I can’t spend more than about £50…all of mine get get mashed on rocks. I think it’d bug me if I had some posh pedals that spent their life hitting rocks etc.

But if you’ve got the cash, hey ho.

Posted 9 years ago

Dibbs
Free Member

But unfair that though, Vectors are rather more than ordinary pedals.

Definitely, but would you use them off road?

Posted 9 years ago

MrOvershoot
Full Member

mindmap3 – Member

£200 for a set of pedals is pretty outrageous.

I can’t spend more than about £50…all of mine get get mashed on rocks. I think it’d bug me if I had some posh pedals that spent their life hitting rocks etc.

But if you’ve got the cash, hey ho.

^This^ I have an upper ceiling price for components and though I could afford to go above it just can’t bring myself to do so!
Might have something to do with Yorkshire/Scottish family mix 😉

Posted 9 years ago

davosaurusrex
Full Member

I’ve recently bought a pair of vault brendogs for £75 which is the most I’ve ever spent on pedals. As above pedals always end up battered. I feel the same way about expensive cranks, always fancied a set of XTR but always run XT

Posted 9 years ago

njee20
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Definitely, but would you use them off road?

Of course.

Posted 9 years ago

nach
Free Member

Anyone here use pedals that cost north of £200 like the Syntace NumberNine’s on the Fresh Goods?

I borrowed a bike for today with those exact pedals on. Didn’t notice any difference to the nanos I usually ride with.

Posted 9 years ago

downhilldave
Full Member

Guilty, 😳 Got two pairs of these one blue one grey. Both with Ti axle’s ➡

Not quite £200 tho.

Posted 9 years ago