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@Gunnarcaldwell: how often do you make dreams come true?
Basically it locks the ball of your foot right on top of the spindle. So it feels like you are riding non your tippy toes. It feels even worse when you hit drops. I dropped $400 USD for the pedals and shoes. And until they make a clear connection go further behind the ball it will never feel comfortable as a flat rider.
If you read magpeds reasoning or even talk to their sponsored pros, they keep on arguing ball of foot needs to be on the spindle for optimal performance. I’m like for climbing....not for everything else.
If you're not talking about the Enduro Magped version with 200N magnets then it's your first mistake, the Sport is not for downhill.
Then as you just noticed, those Giros are not a good choise. I am using FiveTen Hellcat and if you slide the metal plates all the way back then the ball of your foot sits maybe a few milimiters behind the top of the spindle.
I am using these pedals since 1 year now and I am not going back to normal flat pedals. I do like 1m drops to flat and the best thing with the Magpeds is that if you somehow rebound a little at the landing your feet don't jump off the pedals like with normal flat pedals. One friend of mine used the Sport version for 3 years and he was still happy and now switched to Enduro version and he's also not going back to flat pedals either. He also uses Hellcat shoes.
And if you somehow still don't like them there is always the option to get rid of the magnets and have a very good normal flat pedal similar to DMR Vault but with better pin placement options and pins that don't eat your shoes (extended thread pins on DMR).
I checked again, it is quite a bit in front of the spindle. What I remembered is that I would have liked it a few millimeters more in that direction maybe, but nothing critical.
Here is how it looks , this is a US size 9 Hellcat:
www.pinkbike.com/u/uskas/album/Magped
I would be curious about how your Giro fits.
I prefer them to clips because I also like to be able to take my foot out of the pedal without making rock&roll moves.
Not sure what flat pedals you ran, but newer larger platform flat pedals, I’m running OneUps, let you be even more centered on the spindle Than the smaller flat pedals. If I did any serious racing though, I’d switch back to clipless more often. I think you can just be faster. On the trails, I’m not racing, not even really pushing for Strava, so fractions of seconds don’t matter to me, and I like the feel of being back on flats and being able to move my foot position during my ride (I think it helps my old knees).
Like I’ve made in other post, I’ve tested magpeds at snow summit and mammoth mtn bike parks. They did not stay on compared to flats. I also hated the position of my foot.
200N is weak AF, depending on the riders mass and muscle strength you can easily dislodge. I need about double this or 90 lbs of force. The issue is if you do the math, to get a magnet that size, I would have to redesign the whole pedal. I’ve used these as flats, still trash. Worse than spank spike imo.
If the magpeds work for you, great. But the combo of magnet position and cleat slot position sucks for this day age.
I really only saw one benefit to magpeds. I somewhat understand why people like being clipped in. It definitely adds a little bit of confidence. “Glue to the bike, gotta commit.” But hindsight I should’ve just bought SPD to simulate this fact.
The rubber comes close to 5010, as vibram is used for hiking boots. But it’s really hard to truly match that rubber.
Since you cant really fly a kite while riding a bike or can you?
www.reddit.com/r/bikecommuting/comments/bjv6rd/this_guy_cycling_and_flying_a_kite_at_the_same
That said, it isn’t awful for a mountain bike shoe.
What's going on pinkbike?