OK, so I recently bought some MKS Sylvan Gordita pedals (shout out to Crust!), and wanted to get some nice straps to match. Decided to order a pair of YNOTs. They’re quality, not gonna lie, but holy shit, the under-straps, the part that has to thread through the actual pedals, is way too thick. I finally forced them through, but only by fucking up both my pedals and my hands using a vise-grip tool as a brute-force lever to pull them micrometer by micrometer. I have other bikes with Race Face Chester pedals, and those have even thinner spaces for straps, and definitely wouldn’t work!
Yes, it would have been ideal if I had know beforehand the specs, but sales pages for pedals don’t list that spec. I had to order blind.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I got a good strap on my pedal, but my hands and my soul are heavily bruised.
by uosuaq
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straps are meant for bmx-style pedals. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone use ynots on any form of MKS pedals. You’d have been miles better off with a clip and strap setup like toshis or kashimax.
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I have some OneUp MTB flats and I had to use pliers and quite a bit of brute force to get my YNOT straps through.
Shit. I did the same exact thing. YNOT Straps just arrived and I got mks gordito pedals on the bike. I really wanted a metal platform pedal with straps and wasn’t going to get a plastic one. It was super hard to find one that would accommodate straps, but I thought the gordito would. Any tips for someone with the same exact pedal and strap combo?
Hahahaha what pedal now?!!? lol
I had this issue and just got a Jigsaw and machined out the space on my odyssey BMX pedals.