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Yes, it has shin-destroyingly long pins, but the new Race Face Turbine pedal uses more than spiky bits to keep your foot from coming off.
Some people (guilty) think that a glued-on feeling only comes with clipless pedals, that flats can’t deliver that. To which, Race Face answers hold my beer .
By combining a dual concave design with tall (but adjustable) pins and a low-profile design with no bearing bump, they’ve made a flat pedal for people who don’t want clipless but do want their feet glued to the platform on rowdy terrain and big jumps. They call it “Locked-in Flats” and here’s how they do it… top view of new race face turbine flat pedal. Compared to their footloose and fancy free Atlas pedal, which has milder concavity and smaller pins for riders who like to dab and dance as they shred the descents, the new Turbine pedal is for riders who step on and don’t want their feet to move. diagram showing dual concavity of new race face turbine flat pedal. To do this, they combined 11 pins with a dual concavity machined into the platform. There’s a big 3mm concave dip in the middle (compared to 1.2mm for the Atlas), and it’s concave in both fore/aft and inboard/outboard directions. Your shoe sinks into the pedal as you press on it. […]
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