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Tim
a Triathlete
from Date Reviewed: May 13, 2010
Strengths: Easy clip in and out. A little more float which I also like.Weaknesses: The release is too easy especially if you like to leave your shoes with the bike into the T2 transition. A moving dismount usually will involve you stopping and going back to retrieve at least one of your shoes from the ground.
Also, these cleats do not like dirt. Cleaning and lubrication is constant. If you don't, eventually you will not be able to clip in which hopefully happens on a training ride and not an event.Bottom Line: Overall seems to be a good product especially if your new to bike scene and worry about not being able to clip in or out of the pedals.
Favorite Ride: Dam Jam
Price Paid:
$135.00
Purchased At: LBS
Bike Setup: Tri bike, Dura Ace drivetrain.
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Tom
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: January 16, 2010
Strengths: Float, weight, ability to use (more)walkable shoesWeaknesses: Accidental clipping out, durabilityBottom Line: I kept accidently clipping out of the pedal even after siginficant adjustments to the cleat. Scared to stand up while riding. Also, the cleat stop on the pedal broke after three days. Don'[t confuse the Frog with X2 and Zero which are great pedals. Performance Bike was awesome and agreed to let me return the pedals.
Favorite Ride: Red Rocks Amphitheater
Price Paid:
$120.00
Purchased At: Performance Bike
Similar Products Used: Look, Speedplay X2, SPD
Bike Setup: Redline R77, Ultegra Triple, Brooks B17
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Geo
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: November 26, 2009
Strengths: Easy in and easy out.Weaknesses: You stay locked in but you don't get that feel of being locked in.Bottom Line: 1st road bike in years, 20 plus years. I was afraid to clip in so I went with cages. Cages scared the crap out of me. Read some good reviews on Frogs. Much, much better than cages. Don't worry about the exit as it is great. Getiing in is easy also.
Favorite Ride: 2010 Trek Madone 4.7
Similar Products Used: Cage pedals
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Jonathan R
a Commuter
from Date Reviewed: November 20, 2009
Strengths: The free-float sensation proved unremarkable, but I suppose that is its beauty. Pedalling feels completely natural. You are no longer using your knee capsule to fight a spring. In practice, I don’t believe my feet move more than a couple of degrees either way during the stroke, but they can now do this without the slightest wringing sensation at the knee. I wasn’t expecting an instant cure, but after only 3 days experience of aggressive cycling with these pedals, I am curiously free of knee pain.
Clipping in is surprisingly easy, I haven’t yet failed to find the entry first time. Unclipping is so easy that you wonder why it doesn’t happen accidentally. In fact your pedalling style would have to be pretty wild for this to happen. I storm up two long 1 in 6 hills on my daily commute and have felt completely secure. The twenty degree outward release is slightly more than I was used to with my SPDs, which caused one shaky halt at a junction, but no disaster.
Weaknesses: I often feel that American low-production engineering is slightly agricultural, and these pedals give the same feeling. Functional but inelegant. Maybe it’s because they are MTB pedals, maybe the road pedals are more refined? The silicon rubber hinge in the cleat - referred to in a previous review - does seem remarkably flimsy and exposed to dirt, given its importance; but I shall reserve judgement until it actually fails. The grease port I intend to ignore. It doesn’t seem clever to pump grease into bearings that might already contain dirt or water. When I feel a service is due I shall dismantle completely, which is apparently simple.
Lastly, the instruction leaflet is unremittingly negative. C’mon guys, what about singing-up your product and the joys of pain-free cycling? These are darn’ good pedals.
Bottom Line: Excellent first impressions. Immediate relief from niggling knee trouble. Easy to install cleats on 5-year-old Shimano MTB shoes.
Favorite Ride: Commuting
Price Paid:
$163.00
Purchased At: Wiggle.co.uk
Similar Products Used: None
Bike Setup: Steel framed 1980s Claud Butler road bike
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Stackup
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: December 6, 2008
Strengths: Extremely easy to get in and out of the pedals. Once properly secured, the pedals do not come out no matter how hard you tug your foot. They're light, but I don't know that I noticed once I was riding.
Also, this sounds silly, but the rounded plasic bodies haven't scraped my legs yet as some pedals have during dismounts.Weaknesses: They have way more float than I'd prefer, but it's a price I'm willing to pay. also they can't be disenaged by turning your heel inward. I'm not sure if this bothers anyone else.Bottom Line: While racing cyclocross I had trouble with some pedal designs and their mud shedding. I have never really been concerned with float or my knees, but I was interested in the frog's design with regards to not clogging. So far so good. Before each run up, my foot come out cleanly and after the cleat finds it's way right back on.
I still prefer SPD's secure snap in and out, but I refuse to waste anymore time kicking crap out of my cleats during races.
Favorite Ride: East Tiger
Purchased At: borrowed from friend
Similar Products Used: Shimano SPD, Time Atack
Bike Setup: LaPierre CX with Ultegra, single 42 up front, Michelin Muds for wet, and Bontrager Jones CX for dry.
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