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May 22, 2008 A first of many

May 22, 2008 at 18:27
by Love Velo  
When you take two teenagers, give them wood working tools, bikes and a sunny day, riding happens. But when you take 2 inspired teenagers, rain them out and give them nothing better to do, progress happens.May 22, 2008

Today was a first of what I see as many more to come, the clouds were gray and rain drizzled from the sky. The local hill was closed and riding seemed to be out of the option. Klink and I had an idea, but first we were going to have to test it out. We want to someday build a pedal from scratch, but it would be a waste to buy aluminum for the prototype, so we tried building a pedal out of wood this afternoon.

Here's what we got:

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For the next pedal we are going to cut the width down by about 1.5 cm, we will make the pins taller and pointier, and make larger spaces in bettween each pyramid. Once we get it right we are going to purchase some aluminum and make a couple pedals.

Hopefully someday we might be able to sell some custom pedals to you!
Recommendations Appreciated!

Cyclist-Abuse

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May 23, 2008

The work continues!
A new day, a new pedal!

With the information gathered from my last pedal, I discovered that the pins needed to be taller and there had to be more space between them. So I sliced off another blank, redrew the pedal with the required dimensions and started once again.

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Halfway done on side of teeth, with a side by side comparison between the old and the new, with an axle laying in the foreground.

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Halfway done the full pedal

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Fully completed and mounted on the bike.

When testing these pedals I did a side-by-side comparison between these pedals and Axiom Road Gap Flat pedals. The wooden pedals surprisingly had more grip then the metal pedals and provided better support for my shoe. Again, recommendations appreciated!

Cyclist-Abuse

Note: I was wearing trail running shoes and the grip was excellent.

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17 Comments
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 hey I actually have plans and everything drwan up for my own set. I'm building the pedal body and little spikes out of titanium and building my own pedal spindle. I have designed a new sealed bearing setup with the spindle so that its stronger and more wear resistant. so pedal body and spikes are made out of titanium and the pindle is made out of hardened stainless steel(titanium sheers to easily but steel can bend a bit before it breaks). by the way i work in a metal shop evryday with 100,000 dollar machines so they should come out lokking real nice
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 I'd probably buy them if ou mass prodice them, but if you weren't wearing shins and that thing clapped ya in the leg, it'd hurt like hell :S
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 You should put copyright or whatever its called on wooden pedals and start mass producing themSmile
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 once you make them out of aluminum they're gonna be so sick, but will hurt like hell if get shinned by them
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 that is a great idea but i can see my shin now (or lack of it) from pedal bite
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 if they are soilid al that will b e haevy hollow the large portion out i like you ingenuity
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 Brooklyn Machine Work's already make an extremaly similar pedal to this. But hope fully you can make your's lighter than 800g and grippier than their 500g version.
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 who woulda thunk it wooden pedals
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 i predict one hard hit and snap though
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 This is just the prototype. In reality we will use al, which will not break at all... See that is one of the benefits of the aluminum spikes because you will not constantly break off pins in your pedals. These are soo much stronger.
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 Id buy some aluminum one when they are ready.
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 they need to be slimmer.
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 lol gonna hurt if you get pedal bite
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 The new prototypes look sooooo much cooler.
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 cool cool, how do you plan on working with the Al?
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 What are those going to retail for?
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