@bcm I sent the pedal back to asioma for validation and they found no problems at all with it
Has anyone found that the pedal bodies wear out relatively fast? I’ve been accidentally unclipping constantly, and have ruled out problems with my cleats or shoes, so I just ordered replacement pedal bodies. My pedals are about two years old. I do ride a lot, but that seems like really fast wear to me.
Yeah, bodies could wear out but how are the cleats and pedal tension?
Cleats are good, double checked on different pedals. Tension is around the middle.
Anyone had any squeaking issues with Shimano shoes? I’ve been tracking to isolate the issue, and it seems like it goes away when I use my mountain bike shoes. I’ve swapped cleats as well but it still seems to be the shoes (Shimano rx8’s).
Just curious if anyone else has had something similar and if they found a fix.
Update:
I did do another test ride. Yes this isn’t new, but I feel like I’m seeing a version of this:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8071453/
Basically, as power goes up and especially the less consistent I am (more punchy), I’m seeing the Assiomas read lower, Quarq Higher relatively. That study indicates it at least used to be a thing.
But at the end of the day, we’re talking 10W at ~340W when I’m being a little more punchy and surging a bit more, less than half that at 250W, and pretty much dead on at 150W so I don’t think it matters in practice.
I think for the time being I’m ready to put the Assioma’s away and roll with my Quarq - it hasn’t missed a beat for me over the last 2+ years and I like the spider better than pedals if I’m just talking about one bike…
Man, I’m about to throw my Quarq in a pond and switch to Assiomas. I have had nothing but issues from day 1. First it was 5% higher than every other power meter I own. But it was consistent so I adjusted the offset in the app. Worked ok for a bit, then started reading 2-3% low. So I adjusted again. Worked ok for a bit, then I felt that something was off and did some more comparisons and now it’s back reading high, around 3-4% than all my other power meters. And that’s with a -2% offset in the app. It just reads all over the place.
Something I have noticed with the MX pedals is that they don’t play nice with the new Shimano cleats (CL-MT001) which are supposed to allow easier clipping in. It takes a fair bit of extra force to clip in with these. It will work, just not very well. I have gone back to the older Shimano SM-SH51 cleats.
Mine work completely fine from a clip-in / clip-out perspective. Although, pretty sure I had to adjust the tension.
Clipping in with the new CL-MT001 cleat is the same or easier?
Yes - basically the same. Haven’t done a side-by-side comparison, but it’s been a non-issue for me after the initial adjustment.
Interesting, wonder why it was different for me …
Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m pretty sure the tension was too high and difficult to clip in/out as delivered out of the box, but went back to normal when I turned them down.
I may have them adjusted at the low end of the tension range now, but I’d need to check.
Yep. I’d suggest staying away from the SM-SH56 multi-release cleats. For awhile Shimano was packaging these with some of their pedals. IDK if they still do.
Why?? I’ve used SH56 for a decade.
I and some others I know have had the multi release SH56 cleats come out at the worst possible times, very high out of the saddle efforts. I don’t use them and recommend against them for that reason.
An update on my Pro MX-1 pedals - I have been using these for almost 2 years now and in the last month the binding mechanism has failed on both pedals. There is no tension on the cleat regardless of how much I wind them in. Now to be fair I haven’t been kind to them but two failures seems strange. I have never damaged a Shimano SPD pedal despite plenty of abuse.
It turns out that’s what happened to mine as well, and not pedal body wear. If you replace your pedal bodies, be really careful with the screw caps. They’re really soft and I stripped one trying to remove it.
Yeah, I’ve spent €120 in the last month to keep the pedals alive. Starting to think a crank-based power meter might work better on my XC bike …I am limited in options though since I have nice SRAM carbon cranks that I want to keep but they are the old 3 bolt style and so won’t work with Quarg.
There are quite a few spider PMs that will work on 3 bolt Sram cranks. I have a Sigeyi on my mtb. Check Power Meter City for good information on all the PMs available. I have Assiomas too, but prefer spider PMs in general.