My knees love my speedplays. I wouldn’t lose dual sided clipping in for a purported ‘aero’ advantage.
I have old ones (pre-wahoo) on my trainer bike, and new ones on my road bike. I’ve had lateral play in the wahoo ones starting about 9 months in to using them. I wrote Wahoo, and they asked for a video. On review, they told me they’d replace them. Great! The catch? I have to send them video of me destroying them in a vice before they’ll ship the new ones. I didn’t want to be short a set of pedals for the indefinite future, so I still haven’t done it. Going on ~2 years, it hasn’t gotten any worse. Some day when I can do without the trainer bike for a while, I’ll see if Wahoo is still willing to replace them.
I was one of the first people to buy a Peloton, and the entire OG crew replaced ours. They ALL developed that grinding glass sound and feel. For many of us, they also replaced either the monitor or the entire bike under warranty too. It had to be an ENORMOUS expense for them.
Yep, we had the tablet replaced too after finding out that the U-Verse we had played holy hell with the original one. It took me WEEKS to get Peloton to agree to replace it which was ridiculous and disturbing, but the new (refurbished) console tablet worked like magic. The rust was an issue too as things started looking a little shabby. I hope it’s still out there somewhere being ridden like it’s stolen! I really kind of miss the Peloton Experience.
Jonas Vingegaard was using the aero speed plays at the TdF last year. Seems they work well enough for him, but who knows how well they hold up or if it takes a team mechanic to keep them working well.
I thought about trying them myself, but I also realize that I’d need a crank based PM for both bikes plus two sets of pedals and two sets of cleats. $2000+ cash outlay to save 3 watts seems pretty silly for a masters racer.
yeah totally makes no sense unless they somehow help your fit tremendously.
as it is, I will be currently pedal-less come spring time and I already have a built in power meter. and I only have 1 pair of warm weather bike shoes so will only need 1 cleat pair. so price is ~ the same as a duraace pedal in my case.
I have 2 bolt pedals on my bike now - as my warm winter shoes are 2 bolt.
we’ll see…I might give speedplay a shot in spring time though. fussing with pedal maintenance is leaning me away from dealing with it. I am considering a bike fit update in spring / summer so if I do I’ll ask them to help me choose and install it.
if I do I will def go for the 2 sided though - as I start and stop in traffic much more than going 35km/h. so clipping in faster will prob save me more time - and obv much more convenient.
I didn’t want to be short a set of pedals for the indefinite future, so I still haven’t done it. Going on ~2 years, it hasn’t gotten any worse. Some day when I can do without the trainer bike for a while, I’ll see if Wahoo is still willing to replace them.