Singletrack Unscripted – Talking about flat pedals

What makes for a good flat pedal? Are metal flatties better than plastic flatties? Thick pins? Thin pins? Loads of pins? Minimal pins?

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By ben_haworth

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Anyone else find Benji reminds them of Jarvis Cocker?

You are not the first to notice 🙂

Anyone else find Hope flats real slippy to the point of believing they have grease smeared all over surface with no pins.

Even though pins installed and using 5:10s

Anyone else find Benji reminds them of Jarvis Cocker?

Has anyone seen them together at the same time, hmmm?

Makes you think, eh…

notjustacyclingaddict

Anyone else find Hope flats real slippy to the point of believing they have grease smeared all over surface with no pins.

Tried on other people’s bikes and I’m always wearing 5 tens if riding flats … I’ve truly no idea how anyone can use F20’s (felt like rising in ice skates) but I guess each pedal has an optimum shoe size and perhaps sole and this doesn’t play well with your size and mine?

Maybe they just don’t play well with 8.5UK 5 tens???

Anyone else find Hope flats real slippy to the point of believing they have grease smeared all over surface with no pins.

Even though pins installed and using 5:10s

Yup. Tried a set of F20 a couple of years back and they were way less grippy than my cheap nukeproof nylon – talking slip off the pedals on a small hop slippy. The oneup pedals I replaced them with are a huge improvement.

Hope F20s can be grippy, but you need the hollow pins, and you need to not install all of them.

If you use the standard pins, they lack anything for rubber soles to grip to as they’re rounded.

And if you install all of the pins they have a flat profile. Just removing two pins from each pedal can make them feel concave.

Doing both makes them perfectly fine.

They’re still never going to be as grippy as a DMR Vault or Burgtec Penthouse though. But, if you like the colours and the bearings – then put the effect in to make them as good as they can be before giving up.

Yep newerhollow pins with middle ones not fitted.

Still utter shizer

rickon
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Hope F20s can be grippy, but you need the hollow pins, and you need to not install all of them.

I still felt them massively underwhelming after removing the middle pins. Cheap Nukeproofs and Deitys were both an improvement