This isn’t so much a review of these particular pedals, which are very nice, and have grease guard ports on them-and will last forever, but more about me switching to clips and straps for my commute to work.
I am taking a grad school class one night a week that I don’t feel like wearing spd shoes in. This hasn’t been a problem before since I just change at work and work on campus, but I really don’t feel like heading back from the class over to my office to change at night before heading back home. So I am going to try regular shoes with clips and straps. I’ll let you know how it goes after a few weeks.
When I worked at the Trail and Dock Shoppe back in the early 90s nothing was cooler than the high end DBRs that came with Grease Guard components, and a few Konas too. I always wanted a grease guard bottom bracket and a set of Grease Guard hubs. I actaully have WTB grease guard headset on my Spooky Darkside…
If you are not familiar with Grease Guard it is grease port fitting on the outside of the part where you can just flush out the old nasty grease with clean grease using a regular bike grease gun. It is amazing technology and I’m not really sure why fell out of popularity. Was it a result of cartridge bearings gaining more market share?
These are the Crank Brothers Egg Beaters I have been using for 4 years now. I have no idea how people say these things are unreliable. I have been using these in snow, rain, mud on my cross bike then my commuter bike for years with no problems. They’ll go back on in 14 weeks when class is over.
So far so good on the WTB pedals.
I bought these pedals ~4 months ago in an NYC bike shop. The only toe clip pedal commonly available in NYC. Today I almost got stuck at work. A piece of the bearing track broke off in my left pedal and almost froze it. I managed to clean it out and make it home (luckily), but the pedal is shot. I can’t believe the metal components were that flimsy to wear out in just 4 months of commuting (~14 miles). What a poor quality product from WTB!