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This is my second pair of this particular pedal after riding the very first model for roughly seven seasons without issue on my TT bikes. Super light and consistent entry and exit. My only quibble was that my latest pair mistakenly came with the super-stiff 16nm spring instead of what should have been the 12nm. I contacted Look and they immediately overnighted me the correct spring and were genuinely concerned about tracing how the mistake happened. Also, BTD with their great customer service offered to replaced them right away, but I told them that Look already had the correct springs on the way. It was a five-minute job to swap. The 16s are almost impossible to get out of, especially in a hurry.

I wish there was more to say about pedal cleats, but they work well and do their thing. I'm a trainer/racer/commuter rider, and when I come and go from work, I have to use a loading dock ramp, which is coated with epoxy. In carbon-soled bike shoes, it's interesting in the wet, but I've noticed it's far easier to walk around with the grip cleats vs the all plastic ones.

It may be placebo, but I do feel that these stay more secure in the pedal once clipped in. They last longer for sure if you walk a lot, I get 6 months or so and I don't do any walking other than in and out of my house or work. Keep 'em lubed with some dry wax and they are good to go.

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This is my go to cleat when replacing worn out cleats. The small pads really do help keeping me from 'ice skating ' when stepping off the bike. The pads did not interfere with clipping in/out. Give them a try'

For context, I bought these for a gravel bike used primarily on the road, wearing Shimano RX800 wide shoes with Silca SPD cleats, and am an old guy with sketchy knees. Have always used traditional XT/XTR pedals for this type application but wanted a more planted, road-like feel. So I pulled the trigger on a "race carbon" pair.

For me, these pedals are a huge improvement in that the shoe/cleat/pedal interface feels waaaay more planted and stable....much closer to a road feel. My sketchy knees have noticed the difference, too. Even clipping in seems easier for some reason...no more hit-and-miss (my same shoe/cleat combo). On the scale and in use, their weight and stack height are equal to or a little better than my old pedals. They are too new to judge their reliability, but so far the only downside is that I wish I'd have bought these back when they first came out.