This pedal has everything. Carbon fiber body. Titanium axle. Stainless steel wear plate. And a blade of carbon fiber that flexes against the retention plate to hold the cleat in place. The blade helps make the pedal crazy light without costing it any durability. That all reads good, but, you might be thinking the blade is fragile. It isn’t. It would take some serious work to accidentally disengage the blade or break it. A pretty heavy hammer blow to just the right spot is about the only way to damage it.

The carbon fiber blade is the proverbial cherry, the icing, the final piece of the pedal. The rest is extremely tech-forward as well. Start with the redesigned pedal body. It’s quite different than the Keo, utilising the new Keo 2 design. It is 17% wider than the old Keo, about on par with the Shimano Dura-Ace pedal. This 62mm platform increases the surface area that contacts the cleat to 402mm² , yet the cornering clearance is actually better because the extra width is on the top of the new pedal rather than the bottom. The result of the design change is 31% greater surface area than the old Keos, which should leave you with the feeling that your foot is on a more stable platform where foot pressure is spread over a wider area.

The axle is new as well. It’s 12mm in diameter on the inboard side near the mounting threads and remains so through the support for two sets of roller bearings, and then starts to taper towards the end, where a needle bearing sits. The greater diameter not only insures stiffness, but also allows Look to offer this pedal without the caveat of a rider weight limit.

The larger spindle diameter might set off alarms with some people. These people fear that with the larger spindle, stack height must have increased. It hasn’t, still at a slim 15.7mm, thanks in part to the stainless steel wear plate at the top of the pedal. Your cleat will not wear down the pedal body over time, so they could afford to make the pedal body fairly thin under the plate.

Features:

• The concept: a carbon leaf spring (blade) replaces the traditional wound wire cleat retention spring
• More efficient: quicker clip-in clip-out sensation and more secure cleat retention
• Very light: 95g each pedal with a TI axle (258g with cleats and mounting hardware)
• Two levels of cleat retention and security (tension 12 average and 16 firmer, comes with 12)
• Grey 4.5 deg Grip movement cleat included + cleat covers
• Mounting hardware included