After a hiatus of more than 10 years, Coombe Engineering is back in the highly competitive road bike pedal game with the Millenium II. It’s quite light, apparently very secure, and elegantly designed both inside and out – and creator Bill Coombe hopes this second-generation model earns as loyal a following as the original.
Nearly every other pedal on the market uses some sort of spring mechanism to connect the cleat and pedal body, but the Coombe Millenium II instead employs a simple dovetail-like arrangement that has no moving parts. Simply hook the back end of the cleat on the pedal, push down, and twist slightly to engage the interlocking pieces; rotate your foot in either direction past the small step in the cleat pocket to release. Built into the system is +/- 3 degrees of rotational float.
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The Coombe Millenium II pedals use a simple dovetail-like rotating interface to lock the pedal body and cleat together
Durability and longevity are clearly high priorities on the Millenium II. The pedal body and axle are both made of ultra-tough stainless steel, and each small ‘+’-shaped body spins on two needle and one radial ball bearing. Thanks to that steel construction, the pedal body itself ingeniously serves double duty as the outer race for all three bearings, which helps lower the total pedal-plus-cleat stack height to just 10mm (claimed).
Two O-rings seal up the bearing mechanism from dirt and water. When maintenance is eventually needed, you can simply inject grease into the pedal using a port hidden inside the spindle. No disassembly is required; nor do the pedals have to be removed from the cranks.
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