MöBIUS Cycling launch 236g Infinity pedal on Kickstarter + video

Getting very close to their target as well - anyone else looking to back it?

be good to get the road cc test team to try them out. lots of opinion on surface area, clear wear etc, but lets see how they fair. its great to see some innovate design, saving 200 grams of your pedals might excite a lot of people.

The cleats the weak point as far as I can see. It's a steel stamping with lips that could get gouged or bent if used off road so you could end up unable to clip in even if the pedal it self is fine. SPD's cleats are a lump of cast steel for a reason. I can also see the cleat clogging like buggery as it's taking the teeth and transferring them to the shoe and forcing them in to the mud every time you have to do a cyclo cross carry.

Looks a neat design. The video obviously greatly exaggerated the engagement problems with SPDs in particular. I can clip into mine on and off road without any issues at all. But that still doesn't take anything away from his design. The only thing I've noticed is SPD cleats have slots to increase the range of attachment positions. These just have fixed bolts so the shoe has to provide the range. They also seem a very snug fit in the shoe cut out so this could again hinder cleat position in some shoes?

They look ideal for commuting. purely because of the recessed cleat. I've never had an issue clipping/unclipping, especially with SPD's (though, since I started cycling i've always used clipless pedals).

From a mechanical design angle, these are pretty good, very basic moving parts and they look easily repairable/serviceable

If you look at the base plate for the shoe, the contact looks much bigger than a SPD so im not to sure why people are saying there is less...compare how much metal is actually in contact, not the size of the pedal and you will get the idea. Im not to sure that the ergonomics are right with the contact being so far forward from the screws?

I actually think these would be perfect for CX

Maybe Road.cc can get a set for testing..

How sturdy are the guides that squeeze the pedal as you slide the shoe forward? They look thin enough to be bent by an inpact or by sticking a foot down at the wrong angle. If they are bent, does this mean you won't be able to clip in?

gert lush.

Looking at the images designed more for mtbing than road. Is there a 3 screw design for shoes ?

Eggbeaters all the way for me....

These look interesting though, good to see some innovation.

Looks to me like a very small contact area with the shoe sole. Much less than other pedals.

Do people really have that much trouble clipping in?

These do look interesting, just not at their entry price, a bit more than I expected. If they'll be even more expensive at launch I see no reason to jump on.

Pretty damned clever by the look of them.

Hmmm, I can't work out if the springy cylinder bit rotates, or if the cleat just grinds around the springy cylinder bit. If it's the latter it'll wear out in no time.

Love the idea of circular clip in, would want far less float though.
The answers to the questions are a little too wolly for my liking; I've commited to a few cycling projects and they were all more certain of their direction than this.

Critical but where's the progress if it's just one big love in...

The video, aside from appearing as a fairly tacky American engineering action film, doesn't actually explain the mechanics of the pedal. We see it clipping in very quickly on a jig so you can kind of work it out for yourself but isn't that missing the point with this style of video?

He's missing a huge, huge portion of the market whos shoes don't use 2-bolt SPD cleat fittings. That's almost every non-Shimano road shoe user wiped out.

Can't see this revolutionising the pedal myself but I love being proven wrong!

It looks like a neat design, but I'm curious about one thing mentioned in the video (and the patent wording): do people really need to look at their pedals to clip in? I mean, I get that it's frequently a PITA off-road, for specific reasons, but surely even then looking is not really required?