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VP Blade Titanium Platform Pedals

You aren’t likely to see the VP Blade pedals all that often. At around $400 per pair, these super thin titanium-body pedals are never going to gain mass acceptance, if they even make it to retail in this form. Using a lost-wax casting process, this pedal body features a slender body compatible with over the foot style straps and inboard sealed ball bearings rolling on a titanium pedal spindle. It weighs in at a mere 260 g per pair, or around what competitively lightweight clipless pedals tip the scales at, a weight normally reserved for one platform pedal not both left and right. Since VP knows that $400 pedals aren’t the best sellers, a steel version aimed at roughly a quarter of the price is in the works.

3 Comments

  1. mattMarch 7, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    these could be 3d printed in titanium soon enough , there is already a company doing 3d titanium printed drop outs ,
    damn nice pedals though!

  2. bradMarch 8, 2013 at 9:11 amAuthor

    Funny enough, eventually 3D printing them was mentioned from the VP rep when I talked with him about these pedals.

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