Ekoi, who came together in a new PW8 X Ekoi road pedal system of PW8 and Ekoi, since the 1980s, I began to think about the progress of road pedals.
The new system is brave. The pedality itself does not have parts that move to the badge. Requires a special shoe (produced by ecoi) and ‘cleaning’ consists of only two small pieces.
This approach gives a shoe contact with a first, pedal in the road shoe / pedal design.
Why did it take so long for such a radical change in so much pedal design?
A brief history of clip without road pedals
Some would dispute Cineelli’s leakage and pedal in the 1970s, the first turn of M71. However, despite the grace between the trace driver, it did not really hug on the way you slip the U-Channel-shaped platform that locked you with an easy release and zero float.
It was very difficult to exit in an emergency and offer zero adjustment.
See the story history of the bike technology and returned to the 1890s, the labor of magnets (H.SUDOR) was patents for clip-free pedal designs.
It seems that even then, the drivers were looking for a clip and an alternative to the belt cover.
The 1984 pedal of his appearance was the debut of the pedales automation, revolutionary road bike.
However, when he intervened in 41 years, it was less on the road.
Yes, a few years later, the appearance of the appearance, the French company entered the company’s time, and for the first time the pedal was closing.
Shimano, SPD-SL in 2003, Mountain Bike SPD for more than a decade.
Perhaps this is a unique conservatism that tarnies the pedal design of this road.
Imagine how much time it takes to disc brakes and tubess tires. Mountain bikes took years after hugs these technological progress.
There are some innovations in road cycling pedals, but none of the crowns have not taken a single-sided, the hegemony of the plastic cleansing format. Crankbrothers tested with a very user-friendly Quattro placed with a four-sided access and a low-profile road platform of the EggBeater pedal.
The brass seemed to win with the cracks connecting a carrier with tab fragments. Chile would be superior to plastic, offered easy access from the binary platform and was less of weight. However, the Crankbrothers did not hold the quattro in 2017, although cleaners are still available.
The time of 2010, the first I-Clic, as in the standard road clink pedals, instead of pushing the spring tension, by clicking and clicking by clicking on the SMano systems, cleared the design.
When the pedal was opened, it took the modern skiing theory and when it entered with your cleansed shoe (as in mousetrap). It was a smart system, but more pinched more than a new method.
The unique Lolipop design has been different from Norman since SpeedPlay since 1989. With a minimum pedal and large parts, a large number of adjustments and excellent swimming with two-sided access. Pedals won a religion, but did little to change the status quo.
Anyway what are there in the road pedals?
We are doing an amazing job of the road pedals, I would claim to be better.
First single-way design. Yes, I understand that reduces the height of heap and keeps the work more lightly and simpler.
But early knood pedals took a little weight, so they hung the tab side. Most of the most modern light path pedals do not have, so when you are off and try to find and try to find it. All this becomes ‘blind’ while looking at traffic and other drivers.
Then they have themselves; Plastic construction means that they began to wear almost from the first day. The first walk in fresh cleaning, every time you go out, the performance is broken and continues to degrade until it is broken.
If you get a mechanic, walking in road shoes if you get the worst and you can’t fix it will be awkward and will kill your rogues. No doubt, a rock that does not have a micropylastic deposit as he wears is not off the mind.
Plastic coatings are thin
On average, this would say that the last half of the road (metal) gravel / mountain bike cleaners.
It is an expensive job for a small performance profit compared to mountain biking. Maybe I have to place my money where my mouth should be and I should throw the traffic pedals in favor of mountain biking pedals.
Again, Ritchey, long-retired and did such a thing with road pedals – light, single-sided road pedals using the darling of the mountain bike.
However, the only Ritchey design with three bolted stations with all road shoes was a very limited market.
What do I want?
I love the minimum appearance of a single-sided road pedal, but the last cleansing, better for the environment and is better with a speedy engagement and release. Not much to ask, isn’t it?
The design of PW8 is a bold step
This brings first serious innovation in road pedals since the Noughies.
PSCal NOMEI (the designer) of the ski / mountaineering) Power designs for those with PW8 X Ekoi System Ekoi CEO Jean Christophe Rattel took the eye and formed PW8.
Ecoi is not exclusive to PW8’s Ecoi and other shoe manufacturers are currently recorded for the preparation of suitable shoes for the PW8 pedal system.
The new pedal system approved by UCI (February 2025 has developed for four years and has been developed in two years and has been tested in two years by Pro and Ex-Pro driver sets, including Claudio Chiappucci, Julien Absalon, Nicolas Roche and Philip Gilbert.
The group of these groups put in a combined 58,000 km. The total test was over 200,000 km long year.
The Pro Continental team will use the beautiful Métropole Côte d’Azur, like PB8 to 5 and 20 minutes using the PW8 system, like Finnish champion Jaakko Hänninen.
Its giant platform means a contact with 1,500mm2 compared to 705mm2 of the appearance blade.
Minimum design, Shimano’s 13.7mm, increased to 8MM from the distance to 8MM from the axis to the axis in 13.5mm and 14.8mm. Only SpeedPlay approaches with a stack height between 8.5mm and 11 mm.
Finally, the weight is low, pedals, each with 105 g, each of which is 15 GR – only 225 grams, although you need a special shoe.
The first iteration here consists of a composite body and steel arrow. Axis reading version, which has a pedal in 2025 and a full carbon and axis that grants up to 202 weight), is set to release in late 2026.
PW8 claims that this increase means optimal power transfer and helps reduce dead spots during pedaling.
Brand is also the most aerodynamic available in its system, because of a reduced profile. This is where the PW8’s Marcel’s test is measured by the test of 11% of efficiency on the leading opponent.
You can correct the position of chiling (two angular options for a rock: 0 ° -1.5 ° or 3 ° -6 ° or 3 ° -6 ° or vertical and side part regulation).
Finally, PW8 managed to connect the most part of the most part of the shoe’s shoe under the carbon (cooperation with Michelin), which allows the easier walking and random to keep the wheel accidentally harmless (Michelin).
Pedals 163.40 TL / £ 179.99 / € 149.99, £ 599.17 / $ 648.98 / € 549.98 / € 599.99. Low-precious fitting shoes are on the road from Ecoi at the end of the year.
I still have to test the PW8 X Ekoi pedal system, but I hope PW8 succeeds with such a bold design. Hopefully, you will have to call on market leaders, to look, time and a wake up for Shimano.
I think it’s time to develop a better system now, pinch and improved, but mostly the radical combination of an unchanged pedal since 1984.
When bikes are steel, Dura-Ace was six-step, the lower pipe and brakes were a single pivot. Surely we can ask for better now.
