"gravelmuncher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Xmas day presented me with some brand new Look PP-396 pedals. I've got them on the crank arms, but
I'm just wondering how to go about setting them up as the booklet kinda didn't tell me much.
What's the little yellow dial do, with the 0-3-6-9 stuff? And the hex screw? I know they've both
got something to do with tension adjustment, but some correspondence from users would help heaps.
I have a few pairs of these, nice pedals. The 0-3-6-9 dial is to adjust the 'float' of the cleat
(when used with the red coloured ARC look cleats) measured in degrees. ie. when it's on '0' your
foot can't move from side to side and when on 9 it has a fair degree of float. When you turn the
dial it pokes a litle tang out further into the back part of your cleat, preventing sideways
movement. Although the float can be somewhat negated if you up the spring release tension (the allen
screw underneath). This is the sideways force you must exert for it to let your foot out.
They come set at the minimum setting, which is actually the same as a lot of the other look's pedals
maximum setting! I would get used to them on this setting, and if you're able to pull your foot
starting at the lights or in a sprint, then tighten the allen screw up, it is notched at 1/3 or a
turn, count them in case you want to put them back to how they were. I have spoken to a few people
who have used other look pedals who have found the spring tension a bit much for them in this model!
(FWIW, the 11-16 written on the pedal body is 11-16kNm, a lot of the other model look pedals have a
max setting of 11)
Hope this helps Gemma
