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Yoshimura Cycling’s Chilao Flat Pedal Details:
You could win a pair of our most highly sought after pedals, the Yoshimura Cycling Chilao flat pedals. Get a set of the Made in the USA pedals in your choice of size and colour. They are made from 6061 billet T6 aluminum and hand built. You'll also win an a Ogio x Yoshimura Gambit Adventure Pack to pack your gear in.
MSRP: $190 USD Chilao pedals
MSRP: $124 Ogio xYoshimura Gambit adventure pack
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53 Comments
Great (shitty) buzzword usage (bastardization).
Sticking " billet" in the middle of the alloy\heat-treatment description tells me that maybe someone cares more about getting key words into the copy than actually representing what it's made of.
More expensive to make as a manufacturer and purchase as a customer? Yes. $200 for pedals that will get marred and chunked by rocks seems like a lot to guy that has never purchased a new bike, only used. But most days on this site I am reminded I am really too poor to afford this sport, ha.
Kind of. A "billet" is just a raw material form factor: the small to medium size block that the end product is created from. It still needs processing, whether that's metling down to be cast, or machined (hand or CNC), or forged.
"Billet" has kind come to mean "one-piece [CNC] machined", so usage like "billet engine block" is sort of OK, although technically only semi-correct: "one-piece machined engine block" would be more accurate. But sticking "billet" between the alloy name (6061) and the heat-treatment (T6) is just silly.
*Edit, I could see how this could be really beneficial for aluminum crank arms but not pedals.
Might as well say "garden variety chunk of aluminum"
I can see bragging about 7075, but 6061 is.....
coulda made em outta 7075 for like what, an extra $0.25?
Then you coulda said "Aircraft grade billet aluminum!" , oh ya.
I ride clipped in so , not for daddy.