Time Impact Pedal

Price Paid:  $35.00 at ebay

Favorite Ride:
Lake Overholser at dawn

Bike Setup:
POS CroMolly frame, Dura Ace rear derailuer, ultegra crank, Velocity Spartacus wheelset.

Summary:
I bought these used on e-bay, the bearings had gone south but they were easy to replace once my LBS found them. This is my first pair of clipless pedals and I found getting into and out of them easy. I spent a lot of time reading reviews and asking around, and these are what I thought would work for me.
These are much easier to get into and out of than my Campy platforms and with the audible click in I never wonder if I'm not in, you know it. They are very smooth and rotate almost as well as my free bearing platform pedals. Overall I would recommend these to anyone.

Strengths:
You may eventually wear out the cleat... but it will take a while(years not months)
All metal construction is still light and power transfer is impressive.

Weaknesses:
finish scratches easily, but who is going to see it under your shoes anyway. Replacement bearings were hard to find.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Bike Setup:
various

Summary:
They worked passably. Entry is more difficult than most. I wanted not-so-swishy float, which I got, but the tension spring recenters the foot. This drove me nuts.

Strengths:
pretty low foot to axle

Weaknesses:
recentering spring drives me nuts, clunky cleat

Similar Products Used:
original Time pedals, Speedplay, new Shimano, all kinds of spd, toe clips...

Price Paid:  $0.00 at ebay

Favorite Ride:
any time I can go

Bike Setup:
Merlin Ti, full ultegra, AC 420 wheels

Summary:
Purchased several pairs of Impact and Impact S pedals as replacements for my old time racing pedals. I love them. Wasn't sure about going carbon and didn't like the SPD-R or Look system as much. I know it is personal, but after riding old style Time pedals for 14 years, it was a natural transition.

Strengths:
relatively light, ease of use, bombproof

Weaknesses:
if you aren't used to it, clip in could be problematic

Similar Products Used:
Time Racing, Time Sport, Time Criterium, Various Look pedals

Price Paid:  $90.00 at both LBS & online.

Favorite Ride:
all roads: urban, industrial, suburban, rural, clay, gravel, all of it anywhere.

Bike Setup:
2001 Litespeed Tuscany, Dura-Ace gruppo, except for pedals & brakes (which are the Mavic's). Cane-Creek Aerohead wheelset & Specialized Mondo 700x23.

Summary:
i replaced my Shimano Dura-Ace 7800 "Lance" pedals w/the Time Impact "S" over a year ago & never looked back. wow, what a difference!--so much better. the Time's have a ROCK-SOLID platform. i'm still using the ORIGINAL cleats since they have shown very little wear. i average eight hours a week riding--closer to ten-12 hours over the summer months. i can't believe the cleats are holding up this well.
but, note that the pedal body's platform is contstructed of hard steel, not some hokey magnesium alloy that wears down after two months of riding. because the pedal body is hard steel & the cleat is a fairly hard plastic, neither wear very much at all; & i think this is possibly why Time has offered the "RXS" as a "replacement" for the Impact: the Impacts hardly wear. there's a lot more plastic on the RXS' to wear down.
in summary, these pedals BLOW the 7800's outta the water. i can't believe i paid over $200 for them & got these for less than $100 & they're the bomb. i have recommended them to all my road-riding friends & have purchased another set as a "spare". u can't beat the price/value ratio here.
side-note: although i have the Time ATAC XS pedals on my 29"-wheeled off-road bike, they don't impress me like the Impact's do.

Strengths:
rock-solid platform; durability. good float, but not as good as the Speedplay's. however, the speedplay's pedal body wore down & were a mess to maintain using the so-called "greas-port". messy. not to mention speedplay cleat replacement cost in insulting.

Weaknesses:
bearings could be sealed better, although even after a year of riding (in wet weather too), they're still going fine.

Similar Products Used:
Shimano Dura-Ace (both old-style & new "Lance" SPD-SL 7800's); Speedplay's (X1 & X2); old-style Looks.

Price Paid:  $0.00 at Hendry Cycles

Favorite Ride:
Country roads

Bike Setup:
Evolution and 600

Summary:
I experienced ankle, lower leg and knee pain with these pedals. Despite the advertising these pedals have no real float. Any rotation is resisted by the spring.

The Q-factor adjustment only eliminates side to side movement and is pointless.

I found the spring tension adjustment useless as when it is set at the lowest setting it is the same as the base model. Setting the spring stiffer just makes the float issue worse.

The brass button on the cleats wear fast if your toes point outwards.

Weaknesses:
No float. Q-factor adjustment eliminates side to side movement and allows less rotation. Very hard to click into. Fast cleat wear.

Similar Products Used:
Look and Speedplay.