I’m shopping for some cheap, but grippy pedals for my Coker. If I wear my light weight hiking shoes, they don’t move around enough to re-position my feet, but when I wear my “skate shoes” they don’t grip enough. I was looking at some cheap pedals with pins such as the Wellgo’s - $15.00 or Primo Tenderizers $23 or equivalent. What do you other Coker riders use if other than stock?
I bought a pair of Shamono “pin type” bmx pedals to use with my skate board shoes a few months ago. They work better than the stock pedals, but my right foot wants to “swim”. While riding I have to reposition it all of the time. Probably because it’s the dominant foot. So, in my opinion in order to take full advantage of “pin type” pedals, one needs to purchase 661 Duallys ( SP?) or shoes made for “pin type” pedals. Slate board shoes are not ideal
Dan
Go with the Wellgos.
Odyssey Twisted Pro. Cheep, stickey, square. Don’t care much for diamond shaped pedals. 'Suppose any square pedal with metal pins… I’v never had a problem getting detached in a UPD, or slipage, for that mater, on the Coker, with the OTP’s.
They aren’t the lightest pedal, though…
-Christopher
I rode RAGBRAI on a pair of Odyssey Twisted Pro pedals and they worked very fine for me.
I have used the Wellgos for a couple of months. They are inexpensive and much grippier than stock pedals. I had to adjust the pedal bearings on one of them because they loosened up. Other than that they have been much better than the stock pedals.
Yellow is a MUST since there is a choice of colors. Cokers cry out to have yellow stuff put on them. I ordered mine with a yellow Viscount (pronounced vee-CONT, through the nostrils like the French do) seat. I shed a tear as I traded it for the NON-yellow comfort of a Gemcrest airseat. You should have seen Jack Halpern’s yellow Coker at UNICON. It would have made Van Gogh weep.
Sun Ringle makes some good quality sealed platform pedals with nice grippy replaceable pins.
pricepoint.com has both the older Sun Ringle Zuzu and the newer Sun Ringle Octane pedals for about $30 to $35. That’s a great price for a sealed pedal. I’m using the Zuzu pedals on my Coker.
<http://www.pricepoint.com/pedalsplatform.html>
Wellgo also has some good sealed pedals with replaceable grippy pins. The Wellgo’s are good if you can find them discounted to about the same price as the Sun Ringle pedals at pricepoint.
Vans shoes with the diamond style “off the wall” tread will grip a platform pedal well. For Cokering I wear a Vans VMX shoe. For muni I wear either Vans or AXO/661 Dually shoes.
You’ll get used to needing to lift your foot a bit off a pedal to reposition your foot on the pedal. I’d much rather have my foot stuck on the pedal than slipping around.
john_childs
Every time I saw that thing, Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” got stuck in my head.
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow coker
Took away my old man
Make it stop…
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I mentioned this before but any Canadian looking for cheap pedals need not
look any further than Mountain Equipment Co-op for their $8 aluminums pedals
with permanent pins.
Alex
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I always thought Viscount was pronounced V-EYE-COUNT rhymes with buycount…
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Dylan-
It would be if the French could use something other than their nostrils for enunciation. It’s the olfactory distortion that gives rise to the “vee” sound. The phonetic pronounciation as you list it is correct. All “normal” people (people like you and me) pronounce it with the “eye” vowel sound.
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I’m a canadian who loves MEC. How do permanent pins hold up to replaceable ones? But I guess for 8 bucks the whole pedal is quite replaceable!
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> I always thought Viscount was pronounced V-EYE-COUNT rhymes with
> buycount…
English is the only language I know of where the letter “i” is pronounced
like the biological “eye”. Every other language I’m familiar with
prounounces is like “eee”. Assuming it’s a non-English word (in which case
it would be “viss-count”), the pronunciation would start with “vee”. If
French, there is a tendency to not pronounce parts of words, so I’d imagine
something like “veee-counnnnn” as a rough pronunciation in French.
And by the way, don’t trust the pronunciation of “cycling industry
professionals.” Almost every bike shop person I’ve ever heard say the word
“Miyata” pronounces it “my-atta”. Same letter “i” thing.
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
“If we are what we eat, then I’m easy, fast, and cheap!”
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Yes, and that is spoken through the nostrils.
Here’s the short course on pronunciation in case anybody wants to say these names the Japanese way.
Miyata: meeyata (as JF said)
Suzue: soozooeh
Araya: araya
That’s all I could think of pertaining to Uni parts.
One more; but a different sport… 
Karaoke: karaoh*keh
Sorry to get back to the point at hand but I believe the question was about pedals, not pronunciation.
I have Mosh pedals on my coker and both of my Muni’s. They’re inexpensive at around $15, yet light and resillient. I standardized on them so I wouldn’t have to figure out which shoes go with different pedals. I wear Shimano DX mountain bike shoes that are fairly smooth on the bottom. When combined with the Mosh pedals, they make a sticky combination.
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:39:16 -0700, “John Foss” <jfoss@unicycling.com>
wrote:
>English is the only language I know of where the letter “i” is pronounced
>like the biological “eye”. Every other language I’m familiar with
>prounounces is like “eee”.
Do we have to read your “is” in that last sentence as the plural of i?
If not, I think that the s in “is” IS pronounced in most languages.
But even if you mean that i is pronounced as “eee” in most languages,
I have news for you: in Dutch, i is pronounced as the ee in “bee”, but
also as the i in “it” (and sometimes as “sj” but most Dutchmen are not
aware of that).
Klaas Bil
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> Do we have to read your “is” in that last sentence as the plural of i?
> If not, I think that the s in “is” IS pronounced in most languages.
Ack, it’s the Typo Police, from the Holland part of the Netherlands!
JF
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John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote
> it’s the Typo Police, from the Holland part of the Netherlands!
Exactness, yeah, that’s what the Typo Police feast on! BTW the i in
Police is pronounced as eee, so English also has at least three
pronunciations of i.
Klaas Bil