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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Everything You Need to Know About MTB Pedals, From Flats to Clipless

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Matt and Jeff explain the pros and cons of different types of mountain bike pedals. We also offer tips for learning to ride with clipless pedals and discuss some of the performance considerations when choosing a mountain bike pedal type.

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Transcript

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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Matt and I are going

0:35.7

to be talking about mountain bike pedals.

0:38.5

So there are a couple of like main choices when it comes to mountain bike pedals.

0:44.0

And we're going to talk about those and how they differ from one another.

0:47.2

And sort of talk about the pros and cons of each as well.

0:50.8

And then we're also going to give some tips for learning how to ride with clipless

0:55.3

pedals and some of the things you can do with flat pedals as well. So let's dive right into it,

1:01.6

Matt. So there are really sort of like three main pedal types. And the first ones we're going to

1:07.2

talk about are flat pedals. What's a flat pedal all about? I mean, flat pedal is just, you know, it's the same type of pedal you would get on your bike if you're starting to ride as a kid. Flat platform, you don't need any special type of shoe. You just hop on and ride. You could be wearing, I don't know, tuxedo shoes or you could be wearing five tens and it would still it would still pedal or flip flops or

1:28.5

bare feet or flip flops or bare feet that might hurt a little bit they make those ones for like

1:33.6

beach cruisers that I've seen that are like like completely flat and solid so there aren't like

1:40.0

any pins or anything sticking into your foot. Right. Just all comfort. Yeah.

1:44.4

But yeah, so let's talk a little bit about that.

1:46.1

So the flat pedals that mountain bikers are familiar with, they tend to have pins in them.

1:52.7

Describe that for us.

1:54.1

I mean, are these like spikes?

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