Ruben pedals

First of all, sorry for the delay of this update. We wanted to release this with our new website but with all the things going on here, the new website is taking longer to finish. so is better to keep you informed about them now.

After almost 2 years of developing, the ruben pedals are already available. Here are the pics of them.

We chose the dark brown, orange and white for the colors. We hope you like them.

The reason why they took so much time to finish is because lots of details involved on them. We worked on the design of every single part included on the pedals witch takes a lot of work and testing. We have been receiving many e-mails asking why they were taking so long and that´s the reason. We are sorry for the wait but that´s the only way to achieve what we wanted.

Here the details part by part:

1. bearings and axle:
we wanted the pedals to be really narrow but the problem on this is to find a bearing small but strong. After a long searching, we found one with a 17mm. Diameter that allow us to make the 20mm. thick shape that we wanted. we used also a bigger niddle bearing that makes it rolling smoother and add strenght.

In order to have some more space, we added these rounded details.

For the axle, we used the harder material that we could find and machined it in a way where the material is where you need it, closer to the crank.

Also, the bigger axle allow us to use a 7mm. Thread on the end. With the regular small bearings (neccesary to make narrow pedals), you can only use a 6mm. Thread that sometimes break.

Finally, we put a 6mm. Hex so you can use the same allen key as the stem to mount them.

Here you can see the inside measures

2. pins
we wanted our own design of pins so we made ones that you can mount with an 3mm. Allen key and that are flushed on the back so they look better.
Since there are lots of special tastes about the height. We included on the pedal a set that sticks 3.5mm. and a aditional set that sticks 2.5mm. you can allways mill any of those to achieve the perfect height though.

3. body
We don't like magnesium for the body because we think is too brittle so we used the stronger production process for the 6061aluminum. We didn't used 7075 because this aluminum is harder but also britler and it may break with a strong hit. The result is a body stronger than a magnesium one but lighter.
The procedure we used is extruded and cnc machined. The extruded procedure consists on giving the rought shape of pedal smashing the material (is not that simple but it will give you a rough idea). Not out of a mold wich is weaker. After that, the cnc makes the final shape taking off unnecesary material and gives a better look.

In order to give concave shape that makes it more comfortable and grippy, we make this machining on the center. We used that machining to fit the the grip tape. That's a little detail that adds some grip and helps a bit on some tricks

5. others
like i said, they come with an extra set of grip tape and extra set of pins with a lower height

All these details makes them really light at 440 grs. / 0.968 lb. and also strong. We have testing them for a long time and we can say that.

Well, we hope that you like the result.