Anyone used Eggbeaters Candy SL pedals?

[jobob]

Hi Emily -

I just returned from almost 3 weeks away (combo vacation & work) and it's taking me forever to catch up w. all the posts...

I had the same exprience as you're describing w. Candy pedals. I posted on this many months ago and I'll edit this post in a bit to link to that thread.
( here's the thread: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...=&threadid=947 )

Bottom line: I too had a bit of trouble clipping into one of the pedals, but I could clip into the other pedal just fine, and I had no trouble clipping out of either pedal. I had pretty much concluded that the sole of my shoe was contacting the platform of the pedal on the problem side a bit too much, leading to the difficulty in clipping in on that one side (my shoes are the Shimano M037-W which are likewise in the 'clunky mountain bike shoe' category ). I spent a bit of time playing with the cleat position and shims on the shoe of the problem side, and I had more-or-less solved the problem once I carefully shaved away a little bit of the sole on the problem shoe (the instructions for the Candy pedals go into this; if you don't have the instructions you can download them from the Crank Brothers website, which you can find via Google).

Then I found Eggbeater pedals on sale (which are the same mechanism as the Candys but without the platform), and they clipped in and out on both sides with no problem whatsoever. So I gave my Candy pedals to my husband so he could use them on his other bike (he had no probs at all w. the Candy pedals), and Pokey now sports Eggbeaters.

Hope this helps,
a very jetlagged Jo.