[Yak] Re: Thoughts on Pedals & Tires (David Sherman)

[Timothy Beatty]

The ATACs are walkable.  The cleats are recessed.

One nice feature is that the pedals attach with a 6mm key rather than
a wrench.  Makes for one less thing to carry with you.

Timothy

On 9/6/05, alex wetmore <alex at phred.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, John S. Allen wrote:
> > At 01:22 PM 9/6/2005, Timothy Beatty wrote:
> >> You might want to have a look at the Time ATAC pedals.  Nice big
> >> platform, SPD compatible shoes (different cleats).  Not cheap, but
> >> I've put thousands of km on my first pair and they show no signs of
> >> giving up the ghost.
> >
> > is this system walkable, like SPD?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> I've been riding SPDs for years.  Right now I'm trying Crank Bros
> Candy (like Egg beater) pedals because I want to use them when racing
> cyclocross.  For road riding I don't find any advantages over SPDs so
> far (having ridden them about 100 miles, so not much).  We'll see how
> they do in the mud.
> 
> I've also ridden Speedplay Frogs.  They are nice if you need all of
> the float and unnecessary if you don't.
> 
> Shimano SPDs win on the price to functionality ratio.  $55 (retail at
> just about any bike shop) gets you a nice pair of double sided pedals
> with cleats and reliable ball bearings.  Anything else as functional
> seems to cost twice as much (retail...you can always find discounts if
> you look).
> 
> I avoid SPD clones like the Ritchey and Wellgo ones.  They usually
> have slight variations in the cleat design which make them work poorly
> with Shimano cleats or make their cleats work poorly in Shimano
> pedals.  When Shimano SPDs costs $120 each I could see the attraction,
> but I no longer do.
> 
> I've never used ATACs.
> 
> alex
>