Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
Do you get bites from the bear trap pedals? How sharp are the edges? Does your foot slip off? I have regular BMX pedals and I love them because my foot hardly ever slips off - but those for metal thingies (technical term) have added to my collection of scars (from chain and chain ring).

I've never gotten bikes from the bear traps and haven't had my feet slip off - the metal spiky things are flat on top so they aren't actually spiked, but it's enough to hold to my shoes. It could just be that I've been lucky though.

I just use those on my commuter bikes - originally 'cause I could get them in red and they're a nice wide platform. So I can't say i've really done more than 25 mile rides on them.

The times I've crashed with them, they haven't done any damage to my legs, but it was probably the way I crashed or something.

My brother has a set of mine that unfortunately were the only set of pedals i had handy or could find when I was bringing him a bike over that a friend was selling - so he's been mountain biking with the bear traps for a couple of weeks now without marking up his legs (believe me, I told him a few times to be really careful about that and he probably really shouldn't use them mountain biking). But I found my spare cage pedals, so this weekend I'm gonna go swap 'em onto his bike 'cause I want my orange bear traps back! (he's probably scraped them all up!)

I have a couple chain ring scars.