Crankbrothers burst onto the scene years ago with a radically different clipless pedal called the Egg Beater. Still a design icon, I'd argue. Unfortunately, they were both clipless (bad) and fragile (also bad) and would release your foot if you wacked a pedal on a rock. Since then they've launched a number of questionable (wheelsets with paired spokes and sketchy rim designs) and fantastic products (M17 multi tool, F15 Tool). The Crankbrothers Stamp 7 pedal is firmly in the fantastic camp. Here at Analog we believe bigger pedals are better, and the Stamp 7 (Large variety, not the small) is one of the biggest out there. Of course we only stock the large. It's truly big. We really dig the Deity Black Kat pedal, and the Stamp is 23% bigger than that. You can wear flip flops and they'll feel as stiff as a carbon soled race shoe. Maybe not quite that, but you can wear comfortable whatevering shoes, birks, bedrocks, etc, and get great power transfer as well as tons of support and no hot spots. Here's what else we like: Easy easy rebuild. But if you have a grease gun (a small bike one not a huge truck one), and stick new grease in the grease port every 6 months, you'll likely never need to rebuild these. I recently took apart two pairs of these pedals on some customer bikes. The bikes had ridden half the Eastern Divide Trail on a particularly rainy and muddy summer. The conditions the pedals had gone through was atrocious. The pedals were perfectly fine inside, probably the best sealing I've seen on a pedal to date. I didn't even have to clean them before reassembly. Gobs of traction. Pins are easy to replace. No weird tools needed to strip the pedals. If you want a big, durable, easy to maintain pedal, consider these Stamp 7's. Crank Bros makes a few other Stamp pedals, but they're either smaller, or way heavier, or look really cheap. These are the ticket, and unfortunately that ticket isn't cheap. That said, you'll get years of life outta these, so think long term!
