[Closed] A sad day. Vintage pedal content

They've had a good innings.

I wonder if any CB pedal owners will be able to do the same... 8)

Good work, 636! We salute your resilience in the face of all adversity and trends.
Want another pair? Mine are sitting unused, I might put them into service on my new Carbon road bike 😀
They're sitting there next to my MK1 V12s at the mo.

I've got a set of these in bits on my workbench at home. Got new bearings for them and the plan was to get them powder coated green to match my bike.

Since then I've moved to flats and an orange bike!

Loved them though - might have to get hem up and running and put them on my road bike!

Brilliant pedals. I have a pair in the spares box, pretty much dead, but 'maybe useful'...

Best pedals ever! My pair are currently in use on my main bike. Mostly because it's a red frame but also because they're awesome.

I've got an old set of SPDs from that era that you can have for spares, pretty sure the release springs will be the same.

Already missing Shimano pedals, my recent move to Time has been rewarded by happier knees but one broken set of pedals within 200km 🙁

That's more pedals than I've ever broken in 15 years on Shimano.

Brilliant pedals, it's very easy to see where Crank Bros got the inspiration for the Mk 1 Mallet. A design classic.

I remember the consternation when Shimano moved to a resin pedal cage over ten years ago, but I've put my resin DX pedals through all sorts over the last few years and they've never let me down. Highly recommended.

Bravo them pedals!
I had a similar lifespan from my Time ATAC of a similar vintage. Only replaced because of bushings getting loose, and replacements tricky to do, mechanism still worked flawlessly.

This got me thinking that, over the years, I've never actually broken the clip-in mechanism on a set of Shimano pedals. Plenty of axles and bearings and they certainly wear out and get a bit loose, but I've never broken the actual SPD bit. It never ceases to amaze me how much abuse they can take while remaining awesomely reliable.

Well done sir. They deserve a place of honour in your garage.

I broke my first set of Shimanos - smashed the clippy mechanism

By a quirk of fate I have in my spares bin the Wellgo pedals I bought as my first set in 1994 and the Onza ones (with the elastomers) my mate bought at the same time.

I still have some M636 (also in red), they've been semi-retired from proper MTB use, and now live on my commuter/pub bike...

Excellent pedals...

I have one of those on a ratbike, other side is a resin-caged version

Good innings.

I have a set of 15yr 959's - still going strong. They've been ridden all over the world. All over the States, Oz, NZ, Asia. Gonna mount them on a plinth when they finally go. No bin for them.

I wonder if any CB pedal owners will be able to do the same...

My CB Candy's lasted 1/20th of the time of the OP's DX pedals 🙄

Back to Shimano now.
Still got some M525's from the 90's that get used occasionally!

I wonder if any CB pedal owners will be able to do the same...

A pair of these Shimano pedals (New boxed and unused) just went for £91 plus postage on EBay today.

I had a pair of those pedals back in the day, and some Nike Poobahs, as my first venture into clipless.... 😥

The springs are the same across the Shimano range so you could bring them back to life with a donor pedal.

I had a set of original LX level pedals as a kid and the springs seemed to loose tension prematurely so my Dad tracked down a company locally who actually wound a full set of replacement springs and they worked fine for ages afterwards. This was back in the early 90s though and not really worth doing now that basic spds are so cheap.

Still on my M2 (from 1998, though I didn't upgrade then - but later).
A pair of M959s, think it was first upgrade after a review in STW or on GoFar by Shaun. Still going well.