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Maglock magnetic pedals
« on: December 17, 2015, 06:09:34 PM »
being utilized by Pascal Lafontaine who lost one of his legs recently to cancer. so awesome that people are putting resources into developing stuff like this

http://bmxunion.com/daily/maglock-bike-pedal-pascal-lafontaine-bmx-video/
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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 01:45:29 AM »
I wonder if these would be useful for a non-amputee. I can imagine riding a platform pedal without pins, feet might slide around though.
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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2015, 05:53:01 AM »
wow that's amazing. I remember seeing the video he put out right before going into surgery and thinking it must be devastating to lose such a talent, so I'm really glad to see him back on a bike, spirits unbroken. and I know it's a cliche, but he still seems better than I am, much respect.

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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2015, 05:51:01 AM »
That's cool. Stronger grip than your average but might be easier to hit the ejector seat than spds/straps. I'd guess it'd be good in the wet too.

Props to that dude.
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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2015, 06:27:48 PM »
yeah good design with the different magnet strengths you can switch out. just super awesome for him that he can still ride
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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2015, 10:42:46 AM »

Magnetic pedals would be interesting to check out.

I guess they couldn't really replace clip in shoes in mtb and road riding, because those require that you have a lot of resistance for pulling the pedal up... but then very little resistance when you do a different motion with your foot to unclip.... If the magnets were strong enough for you to pull up on the pedals, then it would also be very difficult to "unclip" or "unmag." 

On a random-ish note, Pascal's foot cancer made me wonder if that's what Bob Marley died of.  Apparently he had a different type of cancer in his toe, but didn't get it amputated and ended up dying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley


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Re: Maglock magnetic pedals
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2015, 03:49:02 AM »
Didn't he die of skin cancer?
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