Look pedals

I use Look pedals - fairly basic ones, only flash thing about them is the colour - Bianchi Celeste
to match my bike (fashion standards must be maintained). I like them - make climbing hills a bit
easier. I am not comfortable in them in heavy traffic though - too much clipping in and out for me
to be completely confident in them - hence my "shopping trip" bike has traditional pedals with
toeclips. But for cycling the miles - I like my Look pedals.

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I picked up a pair of PP296s for £29.95 from www.xpedia.net along with cleats for £3. Great pedals
and I haven't seen them anywhere near that price in other shops.

Bryan said:

Hi,

Im thinking of getting some new pedals and have found what appears to be a cheap source of Look
pedals. The models are the PP137 (£20) and the PP337 (£23). does anyone have any experience of
using these pedals? Are they the bargain they appear or just old pedals that are not very good? Can
anyoine recommend any other pedals that are <£30 (I don't particularly want SPD's)

Thanks

Bryan

I have used use several different types of cheap Look Pedals over the years and they all have been
OK. Mine are old and are OK. You can't really go wrong for £20, get read arc cleats (they allow your
foot to swivel in the pedal) and set up will be easier.

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Quoted message said:

Hi,

Im thinking of getting some new pedals and have found what appears to be a cheap source of Look
pedals. The models are the PP137 (£20) and the PP337 (£23). does anyone have any experience of
using these pedals? Are they the bargain they appear or just old pedals that are not very good?
Can anyoine recommend any other pedals that are <£30 (I don't particularly want SPD's)

Thanks

Bryan

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Thanks for that, Allen. A pair of PP337's is winging its way mewards. BTW, the url is
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If you ride lots, though, the low-end resin pedals will wear out. I have two pairs of PP206's (I
think). One set is on the race bike and grip like a grippy thing, while the other is on the
commuter, have more than 10000 km under their, er, clicky bits, and no longer maintain their iron
grip upon my plates.

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Dave Larrington said:

Thanks for that, Allen. A pair of PP337's is winging its way mewards. BTW, the url is
xpedia.co.ukxpedia.co.ukOpen ↗ (or xpedia.frogtrade.netxpedia.frogtrade.netOpen ↗)

What is it with these f*****g cycling websites. www.xpedia.com Konqueror - formatting is completely
screwed and the javascript (I think) is crashing the browser.
I.E. "You must enable cookies to put items in the shopping basket". Cookies ARE enabled. Netscape on
Linux. Get all the way through to the end and then "You must have java to buy anything."

Give up. Go to www.totalcycling.com.

Get through to "I am new. I have not shopped here before." Click on New.

"Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL
Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '='. /ssl_msuite/mz3Start_ssl.asp, line 20.

URL is secure.hiphip.commz3Start ssl.aspOpen ↗

Hmmm me things - looks like they are sending user supplied data through to the database. Lets just
try something.

secure.hiphip.commz3Start ssl.aspOpen ↗
uiteFlag=0

Ooops.

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL
Server]Invalid column name 'x'. /ssl_msuite/mz3Start_ssl.asp, line 20.

So we can insert our own SQL into the "Secure" server if we really want to.

Of course, attempting to go to secure.hiphop.comsecure.hiphop.comOpen ↗ in order to report their gaping security
hole just gives "Directory Listing Denied"

Hopeless. I'm not sure a post to (NT)bugtraq would help given the lack of contact details but it's
tempting. According to whois they are based in Miami. seamlesstech.com website doesn't seem to work
in konqueror (contact us doesn't seem to work) nor in Netscape on linux (Redirects from the home
page to a 404 with a link to www.microsoft.com)

(I'm assuming that hiphip.com is nothing to do with totalcycling.com and is just doing the CC
clearing for them. However the contact us page at totalcycling.com is just to get yourself added to
their mailing list)

Disgusted of Watford,

Tim.

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Quoted message said:

What is it with these f*****g cycling websites. www.xpedia.com Konqueror - formatting is
completely screwed and the javascript (I think) is crashing the browser.
I.E. "You must enable cookies to put items in the shopping basket".

Cookies

Quoted message said:

ARE enabled. Netscape on Linux. Get all the way through to the end and then "You must

have

Quoted message said:

java to buy anything."

I ran www.xpedia.co.uk (xpedia.frogtrade.netxpedia.frogtrade.netOpen ↗) through a html validator; 226 lines of code,
containing 115 errors... the quality of the html code is so bad, I'm surprised you got as far as you
did!! (I had to fix one error just to get anything from the validator!)

Regards,

Pete.

Peter Connolly said:

Quoted message said:

What is it with these f*****g cycling websites. www.xpedia.com Konqueror - formatting is
completely screwed and the javascript (I think) is crashing the browser.
I.E. "You must enable cookies to put items in the shopping basket".

Cookies

Quoted message said:

ARE enabled. Netscape on Linux. Get all the way through to the end and then "You must

have

Quoted message said:

java to buy anything."

I ran www.xpedia.co.uk (xpedia.frogtrade.netxpedia.frogtrade.netOpen ↗) through a html validator; 226 lines of code,
containing 115 errors... the quality of the html code is so bad, I'm surprised you got as far as
you did!! (I had to fix one error just to get anything from the validator!)

I went back to xpedia because everywhere else I tried to buy pedals from failed as well. I
discovered that if you select the "I'll send my credit card details by another route" you can place
an order using Netscape on Linux. I then telephoned with my credit card details.

I've now had an acknowledgement that they have my order and are processing
it.

SJS cycles (who's website seems to work quite well) only sell right LOOK pedals!

Regards,

Tim.

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Peter Connolly said:

I ran www.xpedia.co.uk (xpedia.frogtrade.netxpedia.frogtrade.netOpen ↗) through a html validator; 226 lines of code,
containing 115 errors... the quality of the html code is so bad, I'm surprised you got as far as
you did!! (I had to fix one error just to get anything from the validator!)

I knew there had to be *one* advantage of running Interweb Exploder on a Wintel box...

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Just as Wafflycathcsdir touched upon, I would be wary about 'clipping into' pedals in built up high traffic areas until your are used to getting your feet out of them quickly.

I'm an extremely clumsy oaf at the best of times and I've fallen over in the road more than once by not being used to my SPDs and having to brake suddenly in traffic. I can only imagine it to be much the same scenario with Look pedals (for which I have some pedals and plates but no shoes, oddly enough).

Just keep on clipping in and unclipping your shoes (if you're not used to them) until the point it drives you insane and you start having nightmares about it and you should be fine.

As I did mention, however, my clumsiness might be responsible for my problems.