90's road pedals

[Jonny69]

What were common pedals in the early 90's? I smoke about on a Raleigh with Shimano Exage gear on it to give you an idea what the bike looks like. The frame is satin black with everything else polished alloy and up to now I've had Wellgo LU950 pedals on it with chrome toeclips (cages) and red leather straps. They're great but they look so out of place because the chrome toeclips are too oldy looking for the rest of it and the black anodised pedal is the complete opposite. My MKS Sylvan pedals on my other earlier bike would also look way too old in my opinion. So I tried a pair of these...



... which I think suit the bike really well, but by god they're uncomfortable. Way too narrow and they're so damn awkward to get your feet in.

I don't know 90's kit all that well. What are my other options for cage style toeclips on 90's bikes?

 

[Simon Daw]

Well, clipless had pretty thoroughly taken over by the early 90s, so the "quality" end of things was pretty much all directed that way.

My shop used to sell quite a few of the MKS pedals - the GR8 platforms as well as the Sylvans. Shimano were also popular, with the PD-6400 Ultegra (www.euroasiaimports.com/productcart /pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=14897&idcategory=1911) probably being one of the most popular. Campag Victory were also quite popular - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Campagnolo-Victory-P ... 0875422297 .

 

[mattsccm]

Unless you are at the budget end any toes clips would have to be shiny steel. Plastic was mtb and cheap stuff only. But as said. by the 90's its clipless all the way for anything decnt and sporty. MTb, tourers and cheap stuff hung on to toe clips.

 

[ORS]

An option could be aero-style Shimano PD-1055 pedals, which I think were manufactured 'til 1990 and generally come with dark grey/silver plastic toeclips with a rear cage if you choose to wear cleats. I believe they're available in both silver and (like mine) a discreet 'metallic green', from the usual secondhand outlets.

http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/42809-re ... s-pd-1055/

I find them great for both cleated road shoes and trainers/scrambling shoes. HTH.

 

[Jonny69]

Well, clipless had pretty thoroughly taken over by the early 90s, so the "quality" end of things was pretty much all directed that way.

Curses, had a feeling that might have been the case. I see those Shimano pedals come up for sale from time to time. I take it you can just take the angled cleat plate off and use them with normal shoes?

 

[The Ken]

I used them with normal shoes with the cleat plate in - I only fell over once, at traffic lights with people crossing and a big line of cars behind me

I'm never going to use them as I found matching time pedals for my bike, if you want them PM me for photos.

 

[David B]

Before I went clipless, I had both Maillard all-alloy (CXC30??) and Ofmega Sintesi alloy/plastic platform pedals with chromed steel clips and leather toestraps during the early 90s. The Sintesis were stupidly light!

Edit: memory is obviously playing tricks on me; the Ofmegas actually had gloss black steel clips;

http://velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx? ... c0f922fab3

David

 

[doctor-bond]

For value pedals that can be used with normal shoes, clips and straps, I'd go for something like this:

http://www.sidcupcycles.co.uk/productde ... ctid=01399

A lot lighter than mst road specific (pointy) ones of the era and have sealed bearings.

(Thanks to one-eyed-Jim for pointing them out on the MTB forum).

If looks and er, 'brand integrity' are important, then I'd save up for some Suntour Superbes/XC Pros.