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Instep Pedal Insert
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Submitted by
Joe
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland, OR
Date Reviewed: June 9, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Slickrock | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Great idea | | Weaknesses: | Simply doesn't work | | Similar Products Used: | If there's a similar product available, I don't know about it. | | Bottom Line: | An astonishingly bad implementation of a very good and very simple idea. A product like this would be extremely useful
to a lot of people, but this one simply doesn't work.
Because Winwood designed the platform to work only with their own proprietary cleats, the user can't choose a cleat that will actually work with his or her pedals - the cleats included neither locked in stably nor released (at all) from my Shimano pedals. The rear of the platform extends too far
back, apparently to provide support for soft shoes, but with the result that the pedal is very difficult to flip over in order to enter (it doesn't help that it is made of slippery plastic). I don't know how products like this ever make it out of marketing departments and into production. Don't the manufacturers ever simply try them out? | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rick
a Weekend Warrior
from Severn, MD
Date Reviewed: June 19, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Local Bike Doctor | | Strengths: | Easy way to convert clipless on a new bike until your ready for them. Or if like me you always used Toe Clips and dont see the need to cuff yourself to your bike:-) | | Weaknesses: | Expensive for what you get and they are way too small except for the smallest footed riders. Im a size 11 but even my friend with a size 10 finds them way too small. | | Similar Products Used: | None and dont know of any | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher, Hoo Koo E Koo - stock but for a Thudbuster and a rack. | | Bottom Line: | Im on my way to the LBS to buy new pedals with toe clips. These Winwoods are a great idea but the implementation is severely lacking. They are way too small and dont allow me to position my foot properly at all. Makes pedaling a chore even on flats. Save your money unless your a size 9 or smaller. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Eric Scheidler
a Weekend Warrior
from Oak Park, IL USA
Date Reviewed: May 28, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Lickton Cycles | | Strengths: | Pretty cool concept -- I was excited to be able to go all-clipless without sacrificing practicality. | | Weaknesses: | Rather cheapish, but not very expensive. Totally useless for someone like me with size 13 shoes. I wouldn't recommend these for anyone with larger shoes than 10 or 11. "XL" doesn't mean jack. It's a midgets world. | | Similar Products Used: | Don't know of anything else like it. | | Bike Setup: | '98 Fisher Tassahara. | | Bottom Line: | Cool idea, but the larger-footed cyclist was totally overlooked in the design -- without any apparent good reason. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gordon Smith
a Weekend Warrior
from Los Angeles
Date Reviewed: September 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | Fast and easy way to adapt your clip-in pedals for normal shoes, lightweight, can be ordered for SPD or Look-type pedals | | Weaknesses: | Light weight because it's all plastic: toe clip is pretty flimsy, platform is fairly small, sometimes hard to release adapter from pedal, a little expensive for what you're actually getting | | Bike Setup: | 97 Rockhopper w. Wellgo SPDs | | Bottom Line: | This product is great for quickly adapting your pedals so you can ride to the coffee shop, etc, while wearing your normal shoes.
Essentially, it's a plastic platform/clip with a SPD cleat bolted into the bottom. It's somewhat adjustable for shoe size. The platform is pretty small, only a little bigger than a standard SPD pedal and has no teeth or ridges. Traction is aided by a small piece of adhesive sandpaper that you stick over the screw heads.
It is definitely NOT a substitute for a real cage/clip pedal, for any serious off-road riding or racing or for any use that requires a super stable, responsive pedal platform. Of course, it's not really intended for these uses anyway.
If you want this sort of dual-purpose pedal for both on and off-road use, you might be better off with one of those combination pedals that have a standard cage platform on one side and an SPD clip on the other. However, I don't know if you can put clips and straps on these if you want to... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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