Spiky shoes and sticky pedals....

Reminds me of a drunken night at uni where me and a mate hatched a plan to make white tarmac and black road markings. We were going to be rich, until we sobered up

My first thought was simply "Why??" but then noticed some use cases at the bottom:

In the winter, iNVRS provides EXCEPTIONAL GRIP on the pedals, and on ice and snow!

iNVRS pedals alone (without studs) could be used for riding when grip on the pedal isn't critical, like city bikes, beach bikes, casual kids riding, etc

Fine, I can see the use if you're riding on ice or hard snow. And for a multi-use bike where you don't necessarily want shin-biters on it all the time. Even so... that's a bit niche, innit.

I did check it was not April 1st....

i would rather be smacked in the shin by a rubber pedal, i guess.

Good idea, no more slipping on wet lino in the cafe

Good idea, no more slipping on wet lino in the cafe

Probably no more cafe I suspect.  Especially when they have wood flooring…?

If only there was a way to make a shoe securely engage with the pedal so that the rider doesn't have to think about it..............

I literally invented that years ago (with tongue firmly in cheek)

If I could be bothered I would go back over my posting history on here where I 'presented it', and provide evidence and await my millions.

matt_outandabout

+1

I had this idea when I was trapped on sheet ice on my fat bike a couple of winters ago.

mini crampons strapped to your feet and those old fashioned pedals with rubber blocks would have been very helpful in that moment

Good idea, no more slipping on wet lino in the cafe

Depends on what class of cafe you frequent. Experience with my studded running shoes has shown me that trying cross marble tiles is like walking on ball bearings.

I'd actually be interested in trying these for my fatbike - just did a race and we had wet snow that would stick to the pedals and then ice up over time. Also a lot of the winter here in Norway there is ice on or under the snow, so I have studs in my boot soles anyway to stop them slipping when I put a foot down. Obviously a pretty niche user case, but not as dumb as magnetic spds IMO

I'm not convinced this solution wouldn't suffer from balling up too. That's not to say I can't see the merits in it and it's certainly worth a try. Very niche though. I can't imagine there being a large market.

Perhaps not exactly like this, but I can see good reasons for making a pedal/shoe combination that doesn't need a flat shoe for optimum pedal grip (and therefore is next to useless on, e.g. wet grass).

Screwing metal spikes into all your footwear is a hard sell though.

I've been seeing quite a few interesting takes on flat pedals recently, has anyone done a post on the Outlier pendulum pedals.