Klassiker des Fahrraddesigns: Shimano DX Plattformpedale
Plattformpedale sind heute völlig normal und der Standard für Dirt-Fahrer, die auf Pedale ohne Haken stehen.
Das war nicht immer so – und ich kann mir gar nicht vorstellen, dass es die Dinger mal nicht gab. Die Geschichte solltet ihr lesen:
Then in 1981 at the Long Beach Bicycler Dealer Showcase EXPO (BSD EXPO) the pedal world was about to be revolutionized. Two new styles of pedal were both launched at the show. The first was Triton’s circular shaped pedal with a lethal looking rounded cage dubbed the ‘Bear Trap’, for obvious reasons. The other was Shimano’s as part of their DX groupset. Various prototypes of this had been kicking around for a couple of years. Some were clocked on Bob Encinas’ bike at the Watsonville BMX Spring National fitted on their adjustable length DX cranks but these were only one sided and not as good as the finished product. The released version was double sided but still an odd looking thing which was described as a parallelogram pedal and had just 12 little pins sticking out of the cast aluminium platform for grip.
[Via Design Classic Shimano Dx | Features | Dirt Mountain Bike | dirtmag.co.uk]