Ok, I am going to throw in my 2 cents as well here. I think I have had what I
would call, "a lot" of experience with a variety of pedals. I keep coming
back to the amazingly indestructable 1970 Campy NR pedals with the steel dust
caps and the toestrap loop.
You could put 20K miles on them. Place them at ground zero of an atomic
bomb blast, then burry them for 100 years. Dig them back up, regrease the
bearings then ride them down the road for another 50K+ miles. Ok, thats abit of an
exaggeration, but no doubt these pedals take one heckuva lot of abuse and will
still out perform any retro pedal I have tried.
The Only pedal that comes close in my experience is GPM's first attempt
at a Campy NR clone. Actually looked a lot like a cross between Campy "denti"
pedals and a NR model. The outer pedal cage was over-engineered to withstand
side bike dumps better than NRs, but I am not certain that the extra metal
involved in doing so actually helped. I have only seen these pedals twice, I owned
both of them. Sold them and regret doing so. cheers,
Dave Anderson
Cut Bank MT