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We take a look at the latest flat pedals in the Crank Brothers Stamp range, and give five lucky readers a chance to win a pair.
Crank Brothers’ Stamp collection is its range of flat pedals. There are currently five models in the range, with some models offering a number of editions – such as the Stamp 7 Danny MacAskill, for those who want to emulate their hero.
Crank Brothers Stamp Range
Stamp 1 – composite, entry level
Stamp 2 – aluminium body, for trail, enduro and DH
Stamp 3 – magnesium body, for trail, enduro and DH
Stamp 7 – thinner, lighter and Forged 6061-T6 aluminium body, for enduro and DH
Stamp 11 – pro level, titanium spindle, for enduro
More details and how to enter to win a pair over here...
https://singletrackworld.com/2020/07/first-look-crank-brothers-stamp-2-and-stamp-3-and-your-chance-to-win/
Closing date for entries is midnight 19th July 2020
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hi I'm Hannah welcome to single track
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you're here today to look at the new
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Crankbrothers stamp 2 and stamp three
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flat pedals the stamp range is
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Crankbrothers flat pedal range and all
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of them come in two sizes small and a
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large so you can choose the right pedal
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to suit your foot size in the range we
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have the stamp one which is a composite
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entry-level pedal we have the stamp two
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and the stamp three which are designed
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for trail enduro and downhill riding
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stamp seven is a race focused enduro and
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downhill pedal and then the stamp 11 is
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like pro level titanium spindles all the
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glory pedal so the stamp seven comes in
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lots of different ones I've got here err
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the Danny MacAskill
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range the composite stamp ones come in
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lots of different colors and what we're
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looking at today are the stamp twos and
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the stamp threes which are very very
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similar however they're made of
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different material so the profile of
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both of these pedals is exactly the same
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the internals of these pedals are
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exactly the same the difference is that
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the stamp two is made of aluminium and
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the stamp three is made of magnesium
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which is obviously much cooler and
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lighter weight so let's have a closer
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look
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Crankbrothers set out to redesign these
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pedals this year to slim them down give
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them a better look and also to give them
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more of a concave shape riders found
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that some of the pedals were a bit too
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flat meaning they didn't get as good
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grip and contact with the shoe so what
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they've done is they've slimmed down the
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middle and left built-up areas on the
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outside edge that means that when you
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put your foot on the pins the middle
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pins are lower set than the outer pins
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so you reduce the body of the pedal
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slimming it down but keeping the edges
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higher up giving you that contact that
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concave shape
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in addition if you want to tune that a
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bit more you can use the traction pins
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so you can screw them in screw them out
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they are locked itíd in from the factory
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so if you start fiddling with them Oh
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quite stiff then you should add your own
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new fresh bit of Loctite because you'll
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have broken the lock tight seal so it's
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blue loctite that's on there and that's
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what you want to use because red loctite
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might be just a little bit too tight to
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get those traction pins out again
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because they do screw into the body of
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the pedal rather than through from the
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other side so you're going to need the
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head on the pedal to get your pins out
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again in the future should you want to
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change them for a refresh or just tune
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them a bit more because these pedals
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come with 10 millimeter pins throughout
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you can also buy eight millimeter pins
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so if you wanted to have more of a
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concave shape you could add eight mil
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pins in the middle keep the 10 mil pins
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on the side and that would give you even
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more grip as I said exactly the same
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profile between these two pedals but it
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is different from previous iterations
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not just in the thickness but also in
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this chamfering
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on the inside now some riders who have
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ridden the older versions might have
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known that they're not the greatest for
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mud shedding sometimes so what they've
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done for this new pedal body is to just
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angle that away so there's nothing there
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that's like a flat surface that should
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catch the mud and so that should be much
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better mud shedding properties so
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outside both the same pedal inside both
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the same pedal it's just the material
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magnesium this is the aluminium that's
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different inside there haven't been any
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changes to previously still got the I
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just self lubricating outer bearing the
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enduro inner bearing and a steel spindle
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the both pedals they come with a
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five-year manufacturing warranty but
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that doesn't mean you shouldn't service
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them so from time to time they consider
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accessing the enduro bearing in the end
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putting a little bit of grease in there
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you'll probably need a proper Starkey
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tool rather than a multi-tool to get in
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there because now there's a slim down
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profile there isn't a hole through the
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end like in previous models so you won't
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need a little pokey tool to get in there
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that said recently Crankbrothers pedals
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that I've tested like these ones here I
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haven't had any issues with any kind of
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ingress in all the time that I've been
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using them so unless you jet washing
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them don't think you'll need a whole
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bunch of greasing in those bearings now
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other pedals in the range sometimes come
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in like limited edition lots of
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different colors at the moment these two
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pedals are going to come in two colors
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only so they'll both come in black
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magnesium comes in this gray which it's
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very nice kind of robot from the future
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color and the stamp two comes in this
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raw finish which is actually quite
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textured as well so yes real kind of
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like industrial like came straight from
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the factory kind of look to it the stamp
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pedals like all of the crown had
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brothers pedals if you want to tell left
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from right the spindle on the left has a
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little groove in it whereas the right
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one is smooth and these ones I noticed
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actually have a little left and right
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LNR on the ends but I suspect that that
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might wear off after a bit of riding you
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have to use an allen key to fit them
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there's no flat pedal flat point for a
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pedal spanner so those are stumped twos
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and your stamp threes revised profile to
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improve mud shedding and to improve the
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concave shape of the pedal now obviously
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there's going to be a weight saving on
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the magnesium pedals so let's see what
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they weigh what I've got here is the
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large for both obviously a small one
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will be a little bit lighter so the
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large stamp threes in magnesium are 395
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grams
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and the large stamp twos in the
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aluminium body Oh
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501 Gramps they've gone up a gram since
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the last time I weighed them there we go
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500 grams on our entirely accurate
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scales so with that weight difference
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comes a price difference so you get
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$69.99 for your stamp twos and a hundred
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and 999 for the stamp threes so what
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value do you put on weight saving or
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just being able to say hey I've got cool
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magnesium pedals it's up to you to
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decide thanks for joining us
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