Favero Assioma Users

Thanks. Brand new cleats (gray) and same issue with another pair of shoes with black cleat version.

My best guess is the right spring must be weakened somehow. I used to have a problem clipping in left with old cleats. Multiple attempts maybe caused uneven wear on the side on which I put more pressure over 3 years?

Look cleats? If so I`d try swapping for Favero original cleats.
Imo Look are not a good match.

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Just for interest, any chance that you could post a picture of your cleat position like this?

Not saying this is your problem but I had a similar issue when I used EXUSTAR cleats (these are the standard cleats for Garmin Pedals also). I could not get into the pedals and then they would get stuck or unclip easy.

I fixed the issue by moving to Favero specific (from their website) cleats or Authentic Look (gray) cleats.

When you look at the cleats you can tell a clear difference on the shoulder heights of them.

Favero Cleat

Genuine Look Cleat

Exustar (these are common on amazon and ebay btw)

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Here are both pairs of shoes I’ve used. The gray are new Look grip cleats. I just received an email from Favero indicating that Look Grip cleats are incompatible, but I’ve seen multiple users online saying they are. The second pair are non-grip (a Look knockoff if I recall) normally used on my Kickr with Look (not Assiamo) pedals. But I had same unclipping issue on my road bike when I tried those.

I will probably buy new Favero cleats to see if that solves it.

I have an extra right Favero pedal because I originally purchased the Uno and later upgraded to the Duo. Would it make sense to change the right spring since that’s where the problem seems to be? Would it be difficult to do so?

Not any clues there are there. Facing straight ahead and no funny wear.

I use keo grip and have no issues.

You’ve made no other alterations to the bike have you, saddle height, pedal washers etc?

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Hi, I saw your post and wondered if the pedal bodies are still available? As I describe in my later posts in this thread, my left pedal keeps unclipping on one side. I haven’t been able to diagnose problem so far, even with help of Favero and GPLama. GPLama suggested replacing the pedal body. I’d gladly pay shipping-related costs. Thanks!

I couldn’t get grip cleats to work, but normal keo work :man_shrugging:

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Unfortunately, I don’t anymore. Already shipped them off to someone in need.

Good luck! Maybe it’s time to turn the spindles into mtb pedals. :slight_smile:

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May have missed where you’re located, but I believe I have my left pedal body lying around from when I converted to SPD using the Xpedo hack. If so (I’ll check when I get home tonight), you can have it for cost of shipping. I don’t need it, as I use SPDs on my road bike anyhow as someone who primarily rides MTB and doesn’t have any road shoes. I’m in the US.

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Great! Thanks so much! I’m in the US - Alabama. My email is davidwms@icloud.com if you’d like to write me there and we can work out details if you still have it.

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Hi guys,

Happy user of Favero Uno here, for perhaps 3 years now, with two questions:

Doing my outside TR trainings I noticed that recently the power goes crazy at times - on the Edge 530 and custom TR training screen it jumps eg from 270 to 250 and then back to 270 within a second or two without any significant change in pedaling. Not sure, but I believe it may coincident with adding Varia RTL515 to the bike recently, that means yet another sensor (others are Di2 and optical HR Polar sensor). I was thinking it may be dropouts (all the more Varia tends to disconnect once a while) but I don’t see anything suspicious on power or torque in intervals.icu. Does anyone experience anything like this? Any fix for that?

And another question: I was thinking recently to upgrade to Duo, not because I desperately want to know my leg imbalances :wink: but I noticed I tend to overuse my left leg (the one where the Uno measures) on the harder intervals, where i want stay at given power average. My thinking is that with Duo I will be pushing more equally, but maybe you have any tips how to fix that without upgrading the pedals?

Unless you have some solid smoothing on, power should be jumping a min of 20w for all rides, if not more

Thanks for the reply. I understand power smoothing, but i mean the custom Trainerroad screen, where you have lap average - i find it strange if the lap average jump as much in the middle of interval without any changes in pedaling and goes back again in a second or two.

The lap avg shouldn’t jump around that much unless it’s the first 20 seconds of your interval. Seems like a Garmin bug.

Quick question. I’m currently switching my Pedals ~2 times per Week. Could that possible cause issues long term and should i consider getting a 2nd pair?

I’d say no issue. As long as you’re not putting mech stress on the pod, only using the hex wrench, and ensuring the pod does not touch the crank arm (using washers if needed). Keep the axle threads lightly greased. Do a calibration after every move. You should be good for years.

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Zero issues in my experience. I swap my pedals out multiple times a week and have done for nearly 3 years now.

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@mkop, If you haven’t done so, I recommend calibrating your pedals before every ride. This will do a zero/offset that may fix your power issues.

Also, you can check the battery state of the pedals, as well as any firmware updates on the Favero Assioma app. Updating the firmware can also eliminate any corrupted data causing your power inconsistencies.

@Scapewalker, as it’s been mentioned, you should be all good to go :slightly_smiling_face:. Just check that the crank arm lengths are the same when you switch them. You will need to change/set the crank length if they are different lengths. You could do this with the phone app, or you can do it with your head unit. This only takes a second, though, and is located under the sensor setting.

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