and it felt like I was clipped in and couldn't adjust my feet without having to lift up and move them.
To get a concave feel that way, though, the pins had to be so long that they were puncturing into the bottoms of my shoes. The first extrusion was made specifically for the first prototype - an extrusion that ended up evolving into the current Bladerunner pedal, but since it was so thin, we weren't able to increase how concave we wanted it, especially within the platform itself.Īt first, we tried to accomplish a concave platform by using longer pins on the edges and shorter pins toward the center of the pedal.
We tried a couple different shapes in the early stages of designing. I tend to land flat sometimes, so I need all the support I can get! It's also not as supportive, and you're more likely to injure your feet in the event of a hard landing. Companies were actually making pedals convex in an attempt to make them as thin as possible, but when your foot folds over a pedal rather than sitting into it, your feet are just gonna slide around and it's gonna feel like you're on ice skates. The MTB industry went through a long phase of trying to get pedals as thin as possible, and I never saw any benefit to that. I wanted a large platform and I wanted it to be concave. When Eric (Davies) and I started designing this pedal a few years ago, I only had a few key requests and they were all things I was pretty adamant about.
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