[wim]

Not sure what "2g" is, but some play may have been there from day one. If you only feel it with your hands, I wouldn't worry about it. Pedals lead a hard life, and they're just wear items—the insane prices of some of them notwithstanding. Ride em until you feel the play through your shoes, then shitcan em unless you have the patience and the tools to rebuild em.

As an aside: if the manufacturer opts for zero play at the assembly line, he'll get 10,000 complaints about "stiff bearings" and the pedal "not hanging right" for easy clip-ins.

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[wim]

Yeah, like my Campy ProFits. After only 107,000 miles, they're starting to show some serious wear at the cleat contact points. The bearings, however, are still flawless. Sometimes, you get what you pay for

Well, you have to admit that the Campy ProFits are the exception that proves the rule. Some designer at Campy was told in the late 1990s to come up with the best pedal ever—weight and cost be damned. The designer did—a rare (in the cycling universe) triumph of sound engineering over marketing.

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[wim]

Actually, they weigh 260 gm, which is competitive today, and when you factor in longevity, they are probably the cheapest pedals on the market.

Yes, I was confused and got to eat crow here—the curent ProFits are indeed light. I dug out some old snapshots and realized that the Campy pedals I used for a while were those pre-1997 things. Those were completely different, very expensive if I remember this correctly, and, well, hefty.

While I'm here, another point: my comment about "pedals being wear items" did not mean to imply that the OP's pedals are worn out. Having a small amount of bearing play is no reason to trash a pedal.

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