Dual Sided Pedals

hobbo31
hobbo31 Posts: 107
edited March 2012 in MTB buying advice
Looking at getting some dual side pedals, after technical bit went wrong while clipped in any thoughts on these;

Powerplay Detonator Freeride Magnesium
Giant Trance X1 2008
Gary Fisher Cobia 29er 2010
Ribble Road Bike
Giant XTC Composite 29er 2012
Giant Defy Advanced Pro 0 2015

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    the worst of both worlds.

    either stay clipped or go flat.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • hobbo31
    hobbo31 Posts: 107
    Ride both at the moment depends where I'm riding
    Giant Trance X1 2008
    Gary Fisher Cobia 29er 2010
    Ribble Road Bike
    Giant XTC Composite 29er 2012
    Giant Defy Advanced Pro 0 2015
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Pedals like that are always pretty rubbish if you're not clipped in - the mechanism will always sit proud of the cage, so you don't have a good surface. They provide marginally more support when you're clipped in and that's about it!
  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 5,120
    If you ride both there's nothing wrong with swapping pedals, then you get good flats when you are using flats and good clips when you are using clips. It's what me and a few mates do.
    Transition Patrol
    Cube LTD 29er

    Glentress Trailfairies
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Aye, it takes 2 minutes to swap pedals. With doublesided pedals, standing on the SPDs side in flats is ever so slightly worse than standing on the flat side in SPDs but neither is any good at all, and both will happen just when you don't want it to. Bad idea all round.
    Uncompromising extremist

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