Buying Road Pedals? Consider Weights and Prices!

by Jesper Bondo Medhus on November 3, 2008

Road pedals are not just road pedals, they add grams to the overall bike weight and thus play a role for your overall performance. You might have read about my little experiment to find out how much does extra weight cost on Alpe d’Huez which shows that even small weight savings makes a difference. Thus, it is worth considering bike components’ weights when you spend money next time.

Choosing new road pedals is not always an easy job. There are several things to consider and two major concerns are prices and weights. There are actually some quite significant savings for your wallet and bike weight if you look at the scheme below:

Professional Road Pedals Weight Price
Shimano PD-7810 Dura-Ace 348g $259.95
Speedplay Zero Titanium 234/282g* $304.95
Look Keo Carbon Titanium 2008 260g $389.99
Look Keo HM Ti Pedal – Carbon 270g $429.97
Semi-Professional Road Pedals Weight Price
Shimano Ultegra SL PD-6620-G SPD SL 387g $94.99
Look Keo Sprint 2008 320g $129.99
Look 3.1 Road Pedal 420g $149.99
Speedplay Zero Stainless 276/324g* $165.95
Beginner Road Pedals Weight Price
Look Keo Easy 370g $68.95
Shimano 105 PD-5610 SPD SL 392g $69.99
Speedplay Light Action Road Cro-Mo 286/334g* $114.99

All listed weights are Total weight (Pedals incl. cleats).
*) Speedplay has two different cleats with 3 or 4 hole system. 3-hole Cleats weighs 118g, 4-hole cleats weighs 70g (just like the cleats from Shimano and Look).

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Colin Griffiths November 3, 2008 at 12:27 pm

What are the “total” weights when you include the cleats? Does the Speedplay system still look as good?

2 Jesper Therkildsen November 3, 2008 at 12:58 pm

You’re right, total weights are the most important weight concern and even more important if you’re close to the 6.8kg UCI limit. I will try to make an update with total weights later.

3 Jesper Therkildsen November 4, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Now updated with total weights: Pedals+cleats. Still there are significant differences in both prices and weights.

4 Levi November 6, 2008 at 7:37 pm

The Look Keo Sprint is looking like a pretty good compromise between price and weight. I might try those out next year.

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