Not just your average clipless pedal
Review of Time Atac Alium by
Pritch
Advantages: Good for knee complaints, works well in mud
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to get used to, not Shimano compatable
...using clipless pedals for some time now, but for a few months now I've been suffering from tendonitis in my right knee, which was causing me considerable problems, and I was even considering going back to flat pedals. Fortunately, there is another option out there, in the form of the Time Atac. Instead of the binding brought to us by the Almighty Shimano, which allowed nearly no float whatsoever, the somewhat unusual design of the Atacs allows either ... ...the pedal is frightfully simple. Two bars, one fixed, one sprung, hold the cleat in place and allow the cleat to be positioned anywhere between the bars, with quite high tolerances for twisting, which of course, can lead to the biggest gripe with these pedals: "I can't unclip so easily". This is certainly true when you compare them to other clipless pedals, but as any clipless pedal user will recall, they had problems unclipping with SPuDs at first, ...
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14.05.2001
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