MTB Mountain Bike Pedal Lightweight Nylon 9/16 Inch for BMX Road MTB Bicycle

These pedals are great. For ~$20 they don't give you any excuse to do technical riding without good pedals. As other reviewers have noted, the threaded steel studs on these make a night and day difference in grip compared to plastic "demo pedals." Even among nicer platform pedals, these have the best grip of any I've ridden. With decent shoes, your feet won't slip at all unless they lose contact with the pedal. On my single-speed rigid mountain bike, I found these improved my maximum cadence and made me much more secure on technical terrain: use good riding technique, keep your heels low on downhills, and your feet should stay on. I haven't had many pedal strikes with these, but the plastic didn't show any damage beyond surface scratches from the times I did. I recently sold my rigid to a friend and got a nicer bike: I plan on getting another set of these to use on the new bike.The only issues I have with these pedals are that: the bearings aren't very smooth, they aren't the lightest out there, and you need a pedal wrench to install the them on your bike. If you spin the pedal on its own, it only completes one or two rotations before stopping. These pedals are lighter than some comparable ones, but more expensive options will probably be lighter. Some pedals can be removed/installed with only a hex tool, this one requires a narrow wrench to go in between the crank and the pedal platform. I did a swap recently on some similar pedals using only an adjustable wrench, but I scratched some cranks in the process. If you're concerned about scratches, the pro-grade wrench is about $10, and I'm sure there are cheaper options.Also, a warning: the studs on these pedals are sharp! They will cut your legs if you're careless or use poor riding technique. If you want a pedal for casual cruising, these might not be the best for you. If you want an economical pedal that provides excellent grip and durability, these are the pedals you want.

Wanted to wait until I had 500 miles on these pedals before reviewing... I installed these on my road bike because I don't like the clipless toe clamps that came with it when I bought it used. I really thought a pedal was a pedal and the purchasing process would be simple until I started reading the 1000s of reviews about the many makes and models of bike pedals. Wow: cheap, pricey, different sized, different models, different materials, and different purposed pedals confused me but not as much as the varying good to bad reviews of each. Who writes these reviews? Are they talking about the same product? After leaning toward cheaper and then expensive pedals, I decided to try these which I would consider on the less expensive side just to not have much $ tied up if they didn't work out. Low and behold, they're very workable and I love them. Some criticisms were that they were cheaply built, didn't spin freely, lost studs, tore up your shoes, and cut your leg when you stood next to them. Wrong on all accounts from my experience. I'm 6'-4" and weigh 210 lbs so I put as much pressure on these when climbing a hill as most people would. They spin fine. I haven't lost any studs either as some people complained about and they even sent extras in case I still would. They haven't wrecked my shoe soles either as I wear gym shoes but haven't noticed any tearing. The size is perfect for my size 13 feet too. I'm even going to go as far as to say I have a little more strength pedaling than I did on my old bike's platform pedals because the studs helps secure my foot to the pedal creating a little help on the upswing of my legs. I can't prove that last statement but I seem to pedal more efficiently than before. In all, I have no complaints. I'm glad I didn't spend more $ on another pair and would buy these again if the need would arise for any road, mountain, hybrid, etc bike I owned.

Once I saw these up close I was all set to return them but I decided to try them anyhow and now I'm glad I did. What really turned me off at first glance was the pins, which are not shown well in the photos, are literally just screws. The are taller and thinner compared to many of the other types of studs and setscrews. I really expected these to be painful, shoe piercing, and comparatively fragile compared to the more squat or wider set screw type pins. These are just 3mm screws. Yet to my great surprise these things are a lot less painful and shoe peircing. I've had a lot ot rock strike and not yet bent the screws. They are insanely grippy. SO now I love these spikesWhile it hasn't happened yet I can foresee someday this is really going to gall my shin. And unlike the more squat studs it really shreds my socks with these long thin pins because it grabs the threads when they come in contact.Update: Owww... boy did I get an ugly flesh gouge from this. thick chunk skin and hair left on pedals. Still I like these pedals. Hoping I don't do it again though.update: Well it happened. took a hairy chunk of flesh out of my shin. Oww!Now about size. Visually these look bigger than most pedals but this is partly an illusion. They are at the large end of the spectrum but They don't have any greater spindle offset or maximum width and any conventional platform pedal. They also don't have any greater length. But they do have more usable area of foot contact. This is because the body is thinner than most pedals. Many other pedals tend to have a slanted body, as these do too, but because they are thinner this slant eats up less platform area while not extending the length of the pedal. Now about thickness, while the plastic part of the platform is thinner, the pins are taller than most so the effective height of the pedals is a thick pedal. you will not be gaining any extra clearance from the ground due to the thin plastic platform because the long pins strike the ground.Amazing me is that after many rock strikes the plastic is merely scuffed and the pins have not bent.I'm so far very impressed with these. And compared to similar designs in plastic, these are about half the price of others's at the $20 I paid.