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Xpedo
Mountain Force SL/CR Pedals
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Description:The Mountain Force pedals are the result of a partnership between Wellgo & Topeak. They feature an open design that cannot clog w/ mud, a 16-position release setting & 2 sealed bearings. The SL/CR model features a stainless body & cromoly spindle. 300g Includes cleats
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Submitted by
Ian Hatton
a Weekend Warrior
from New Port Richey, FL
Date Reviewed: August 12, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Alafia | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Clips ya in and when I'm going air born in the bad way, I can get still get unclipped.
Hard to beat the price point | | Weaknesses: | They broke on me after about a year, I was left to flop over unable to clip and knocked over the guy in front of me. No Joke.
I was never happy with how hard it was to clip and unclip | | Similar Products Used: | These are my first Clipless pedals | | Bike Setup: | Kona Hardtail | | Bottom Line: | They where cheap and they worked for a while, but the performance went down the drain pretty quickly. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Sérgio Mourato
a Cross Country Rider
from Portugal
Date Reviewed: August 9, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$51.00 | | Purchased At: | ChainReactionCycles,com | | Strengths: | Easy Clip in and out; more lighter (312gr) than Shimano XTR (325gr); Cheap for the weight; Very Stylish; Standard SPD that makes possible to almost everyone mounts the bike without need to change cleats. I changed from Shimano to X-Pedo and I'm using old cleats. | | Weaknesses: | None so far. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano PD-M424 | | Bike Setup: | Trek 8000 (2006 model); LX Dual-Control levers; LX front-deraileur; XT rear-deraileur; sram cassete; Rock Shock Reba SL suspension; Mavic Crossland; LX hidraulic brakes | | Bottom Line: | Until now I believe they worth any € I gave for them. Excelent weight for the price (less than Shimano XTR that costs the double) very easy clip in-out. Very stillish pedals. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Dave
a Cross Country Rider
from Apex, NC
Date Reviewed: March 9, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Pisgah | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$55.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance Bike | | Strengths: | Great price, light, adjustable tension, good feel on engagement/disengagement | | Weaknesses: | Wore out after 2 years - but so did other pedals I've used. | | Similar Products Used: | Various Shimano mid-upper level SPD's | | Bike Setup: | Fuel with SRAM, CrossMax, Float | | Bottom Line: | Nice positive engagement and disengagement.
Great pedal for the price. I wanted something that was 1) SPD since most everyone rides those so easy to swap bikes if needed, 2) adjustable tension cause I don't want to come unclipped unless I intend to (that ruled out EggBeaters), 3) reasonable price (that ruled out high end Shimano stuff, and 4) lightweight but durable.
I put a lot of hard miles on them in 2 years and they have held up as well as any other pedal I have seen. Now they are finally worn out so I'm going to buy another pair of Xpedos. Xpedo sells a rebuild kit for axle/bearings, but the body of my pedals are also worn. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Brian
a Cross Country Rider
from Bay Area, CA
Date Reviewed: November 9, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Porcupine Rim | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Easy enty and exit, adjustable, fairly light,
| | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | Ritchey, Time ATAC, Bebop, Rockwerks, Shimano | | Bike Setup: | Turner Flux | | Bottom Line: | Very good pedals that can be had for a reasonable price. The entry and exit on the Xpedo's are as good as Shimano without the excess weight.
So far these pedals have been durable, are easy to keep clean. There performace in mud is acceptable but I try to avoid riding in mud anyway.
I have a pair of the Ti/Mag version on my hardtail and despite the negative reviews, they are also performing well. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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DEVO!
a Racer
from Vermont
Date Reviewed: May 8, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything long, rolling, and technical | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Purchased At: | Pricepoint.com | | Strengths: | HOLY RETENTION. There is absolutely no play in the pedals when riding. There are no unintentional clipouts. The price was perfect and the weight was too. | | Weaknesses: | They look at little weak...havnt bent them yet...... | | Similar Products Used: | A bunch of shimano stuff that always gave me random clipouts. | | Bike Setup: | Custom carbon frame, XTR drivetrain/brake setup, Crossmax,sette seat blah blah blah | | Bottom Line: | I like there pedals. I know there are lighter ones out there but you cannot get them for this price. And its all about retention retention retention. Perfect for anyone. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Alun Thomas
a Cross Country Rider
from Stratford, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$70.00 | | Purchased At: | Cycle Inn, New Plymouth | | Strengths: | Simple, Reliable | | Weaknesses: | Technical - uses bushes instead of roller bearings | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Commuter / Tourer | | Bottom Line: | Although the xpedo pedals use bushes instead of roller bearings they have proved reliable as I have done 9-10 thousand kilometers now on these pedals with no problems. I do maintain them at least every 500k with fresh grease, of which i use the heaviest, thickest compund i could find to prevent wear. It's easy to do you just remove the cap on the outer edge of the pedal/ fill it with grease and screw it back in. This forces the grease through the pedal and out through the seal on the other side, from where you wipe it off. Have had no real problems, although my right foot has worn a groove in the right hand pedal due to my wierd offset pedalling style I unconciously use. This would get 5 if it used rollers. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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David Shanahan
a Weekend Warrior
from Atlanta
Date Reviewed: February 14, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Aska loop - Blue Ridge, GA | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | light, open design sheds mud, looks cool (so what) | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | shimano 505, 520 | | Bike Setup: | Giant Ranier, xt drive, lots of upgrades | | Bottom Line: | I saw these on ebay and was intrigued by the open design - not as skeletal as eggbeaters, but definitely more open and lighter than the Shimano 520, (and butt cheap!) I took a chance on the SS version and have been very pleased. A bit easier to get into and out of than the Shimano. So far the pedal has sustained one hard impact- in a turn at pretty good speed, I hit a granite baby head directly on the pedal hard enough to lift the bike off the ground. To my surprise, the pedal showed no ill effect. So far, nothing to complain about. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Martin Gaxiola
a Weekend Warrior
from Guadalajara, Mexico
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | Very good product | | Weaknesses: | none so far. | | Similar Products Used: | never | | Bike Setup: | Trek 4500 with duke race 04 and thats it. Deore/less than deore componenets and bontrager parts. | | Bottom Line: | My first clip pedals and its has been a good experience. This are a very good quality pedals, I am friend of the rocks and all kind of trees and never been a problem, i had hard crashes in races and also nothing. It was very easy to start in with the clip pedals. I will recomend this pedals. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Scott Hayes
a Weekend Warrior
from Homeland CA USA
Date Reviewed: October 9, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Alvin Meadows Idyllwild | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Weight, shed mud well. Price? | | Weaknesses: | No inboard bearing. Low reliability. | | Similar Products Used: | Shim. 424. Nashbar special. | | Bike Setup: | Turner Burner w/swinger. Manitou Min 1. Mavic/Hugi wheels Avid Disc. Pro Taper bars/race face deus stem. | | Bottom Line: | This is an update to earlier review. My bike has been making a clicking sound, like a bb failure for 3-4 months. I never suspected the pedals as they were only 6 months old. Until today. I happened to try to wiggle the left pedal to check for play. Sure enough, there was enough play that I can wiggle it and feel it. The right pedal was worse!
I coulda actually hear the 'click' that has been haunting me on my climbs! I took the pedal apart(a very simple process) and to my surprise there is only one REAL bearing.
The end has a bearing under the cap and a retaining nut. The other end is a bushing bearing, and allows for no adjustment or replacement that I can tell. So I put on my old Nashbar clipless that I paid 20 bucks for in 1998, and they are still as tight as new and the clicking is gone. Even if xpedo GAVE me new pedals I wouldn't take them as it is a design flaw and the new pair will probably wear out as well. I thought I got a good price, but if the reliability is so bad I really got screwed. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bruce Brown
a Cross Country Rider
from Des Moines, IA
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | 7 Oaks, Sugar Bottom, Storm Mt., Maah Daah Hey | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | Speedgoat | | Strengths: | Lightweight. Small footprint (pardon the pun). Durable. Good price. Can support riders who weigh 200 pounds. | | Weaknesses: | Even with the proper clips, it takes a little more effort to click out of these than all of the Shimano's I use on other bikes. | | Similar Products Used: | Various Shimano and Ritchey clipless pedals. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Sugar 293 | | Bottom Line: | I was looking to get a lightweight set of pedals to knock off any rotation weight I could. I was drooling at the Ti and Mag models with their weight, but took note of the warning that they were only for lighter riders. I'm about 190 - 195, so I went with the stainless steel model and have been very happy with them.
One of the pedals oozed grease when I first rode it and I was worried that perhaps a seal had been broken. After an email with the company, I was informed that this sometimes occurs based on how much grease got packed in the pedal during the manufacturing process. I was told to wipe it off and keep riding to see if anything else developed. I wiped it off and have not had any problems develop. Pedals are light, responsive and hey - they are attractive. Goes great with an XT silver crankset! ;-)
Not as much float as some other pedals on the market, but that isn't a problem for me. They earn the highest value and overall rating for their price/performance ratio. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt G
a Racer
from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Holy Cross in GJ, CO. | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Monkey Wrench Cycles - Lincoln, NE | | Strengths: | - Light weight
- Solid retention - even in technical terrain (Inconsistent retention on the left pedal was the problem that led me away from Shimano-brand pedals)
- very affordable | | Weaknesses: | - Easy to bend rear retention bar upon contact with a rock -- I was able to bend it back, and the pedal worked fine, however.
- At times inconsistent step-in
- I always question the one bearing/one bushing setup for long-term durability, but so far, so good. | | Similar Products Used: | - Shimano 959 SPD
- Shimano 858 SPD
- Shimano 747 SPD
- Shimano 737 SPD
- Shimano 535 SPD
- Shimano 520 SPD | | Bike Setup: | - 2005 Kona King Kikapu w/Fox RP3 shock
- Manitou Minute 2 SPV fork
- XTR drivetrain/shifters
- RaceFace Evolve XC X-Type crank
- Thomson post, WTB saddle
- Avid BB7 discs
- WTB LazerDisc Lite hubs, Sun DS1-XC rims, DT spokes
- Hutchinson Python Gold mounted tubeless with Stan's rim strips.
- ODI ruffian lock-on grips
- SRAM chain
| | Bottom Line: | Good pedals, with solid retention. I have had consistent problems with inconsistent/unintentional release with new-generation Shimano SPD pedals (959, 540, 520) on the left foot, especially in technical situations. It does not happen immediately, but with a little wear on the binding mech., I can roll my left foot to the side and click out. No such problems with the Xpedo pedals, and they saved almost 100 grams versus my 959s (for a fraction of the price).
I've only had two problems with the pedals thus far -- one serious. While riding at a local park recently, I dug the pedal into a small rock on the side of the trail (while pedaling in a corner). It wasn't a major impact, but it did bend the spring-loaded side of the retention mechanism badly enough that I could not click into it. When I got home, I took a set of channel locks and bent it back straight, at which point I was able to use the pedal again.
The other minor issue is that, at times when I'm stepping in, the window on the ends of the pedals (pedal body sitting vertical) is just large enough to let the cleat begin to attempt to engage the binding that way (90 degrees from where it should actually be). Even though I probably described it poorly, the end result is that it sometimes takes a couple of stabs to get the right part of the pedal to click into. That's all, and in the grand scheme of things, it's not a particularly big deal.
I'll give them five chilis for value, and a solid four for performance. If they make the sprung retention bars more durable, I'd seriously consider giving these pedals five chilis all-around. They're worth a try! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Paul
a Cross Country Rider
from Acworth, Ga. US
Date Reviewed: March 31, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | light | | Weaknesses: | will not take any abuse, hard to clip in | | Similar Products Used: | PD-M540, PD-M929, PD-M858 | | Bike Setup: | S-Works Epic (03), XT Drive Chain/Shifters, Avid SD 7, Fox RL80, XTR Hubs with Valliant Rims, oh is she a sweet ride! | | Bottom Line: | Thought I would try out these because I broke the spindal on my 929's and figured I would try a cheaper pedal to ease the pain of my $120.00 Shimano disaster. I ride some rough trails but thats mountain biking right? So... One little lick on a rock and I'm missing half of my left pedal. I would have liked to wreck at least if I'm going to break something like this but I'm telling you guys, it was a little lick. These are good for city path riding. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Eric
a Cross Country Rider
from Lakewood, CO
Date Reviewed: January 4, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mathews Winters | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance Bikes Lakewood, CO | | Strengths: | Works great so far. No problems with engagement... and more improtantly, release. | | Weaknesses: | None, solid pedal. | | Similar Products Used: | Time Atac Aliums.... YUCK!!! Some generic Wellgos from years ago. | | Bike Setup: | 2003 Giant AC-1, Marzocchi Z1 FR SL, Avid 6" discs, Mavic 317 and XT disc wheels. And Xpedo pedals. | | Bottom Line: | I thought long and hard about which pedals to invest in for the Durango MTB 100 last July. I didn't want to tackle 100 miles with flat pedals, but I hadn't owned any good clipless pedals for years. (No I didn't make the 100 miles anyway.) Last clipless I had were the Time Atac Aliums... and I wanted pedals that would actually let me disengage when I wanted to. Read my review on the Aliums for a good laugh. Hate 'em. Wanted to go with Shimano's latest design, but when I saw Xpedo with the same basic open-toe mechanism design, I went for it. The pedals worked flawlessly during the race, except for an incedent in which the mud clottage had me laying on my back with a bike attached to my feet once again... but I can forgive. I'm just glad I had passed the photographer seconds earlier. Ever since I have loved the pedals. I spray 'em with WD40 every few weeks and the performance is consistent. I intend to keep them as long as they last. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Scott H
a Cross Country Rider
from Homeland CA USA
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | all of them | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$46.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Light weight, trick looks, easy entry. | | Weaknesses: | None so far. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano spd 424 nashbar (wellgo clipless). | | Bike Setup: | 04 Turner Burner, minute 1:00 fork Mavic/hugi wheels. Avid disc brakes, Truvativ stylos, race face deus stem and post, Answer pro-taper bars. Panaracer fire xc pro tires, wtb rocket v saddle | | Bottom Line: | This is an update from earlier review. On my second ride I noticed a difficulty clipping out,even on lowest tension. Then I replaced my shimano sh-515 cleats with the cleats supplied with the pedals. HUGE DIFFERENCE! With the Xpedo cleats I was able to clip out so much easier, that I had to actually increase tension 3 clicks or more. Now I am secure after clipping in and still able to clip out without a problem. If you use these pedals, be sure to use the supplied cleats and lube them up with a little grease. I highly recommend these pedals to someone seeking a lightweight pedal with excellent performance at a reasonable price. I have rode them pretty hard (although only 60 miles or so) and have had zero problems. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Becksted
a Weekend Warrior
from Tucson,AZ,USA
Date Reviewed: December 17, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | Fantasy Island | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$49.00 | | Purchased At: | e-Bay | | Strengths: | Light Weight
Inexpensive
Very handsome | | Weaknesses: | Sometimes snags on dismount | | Similar Products Used: | Candy C | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Marlin, SID Team, Easton Lite stem & post, Monkey Lite XC, XT all around, WTB SpeedV Progel, Bontrager Maverick rims | | Bottom Line: | I loooove these pedals. They're inexpensive, pretty easy to clip in & out, lightweight, and sharp lookin! I ride in the desert so can't attest to its mud clearing capabilities but I'm sure it does what it claims.
My only compaint would be its infrequent tendency to snag my cleats when dismounting. Otherwise, I would highly recommend to road and mid technical XC riders. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Scott H
a Cross Country Rider
from Homeland CA USA
Date Reviewed: December 9, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | all of them | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$46.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Light weight, easy entry. Trick looks | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano spd 424. wellgo (nashbar special) | | Bike Setup: | Turner Burner w/swinger, Manitou min.1:00. Pro-taper bars, mavic/hugi wheels. Avid discs, truvativ cranks, race face stem & seatpost. Flite gel saddle. | | Bottom Line: | I've only had one ride(7 miles) but they seem to be easy to clip into. It was fairly muddy and I had no probs whatsoever clipping in. They seem to just guide your foot directly in. No "feeling around" for the entry point. They are listed at 300 grams, but my digital scale read 298 grams. The light weight was immediately noticeable. Quite an improvement over my previous wellgo (nashbar) pedals. The price is awesome and weight is low. Plus you have adjustable tension, unlike eggbeaters. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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