So what’s to stop you from simply powdercoating your own pedals? The color of a part is the last thing you should consider, since, unless it’s a rim, it’s going to have all the color stripped off in a good 2-5 rides. (Joey Cohn’s white muni frame lost all the color from the shoulders near the crown in 1 ride at cmw 04.
As for the snafu’s, they are extremely nice in some respects, but miserable in others. I have 2 sets of them, 1 I bought for $18 and another was given to me used. I haven’t taken apart the bearings, the only maintainence I’ve done on them is to replace 2-3 pins and locktite them. 1 set is nearly shot, and the only thing keeping me from replacing them is that in the end they still work.
I have taken to picking a certain side of each pedal, and marking it as the kill zone. I make sure that side is always down. On my left snafu, the one I got used, one side still has all of the original pins, and the other side doesn’t even have threads left for pins.
I cracked the body on my old snafu left side, so it’s soon to go, and I bent the spindle on a 5’ drop with a stiff landing on the right new pedal. I will either be making my next set of pedals or buying some Jim C’s.
Has anyone tried the Jim C magnesium ones? They are 1/4 lb less than the aluminum ones, and when they have no life left, they will make a hell of a funeral pyre for themselves.