Abstract: A bicycle pedal assembly includes a pedal body and a plurality of anti-slip members. The pedal body includes a longitudinal tubular portion and left and right lateral walls having distal parts formed with a respective recess. The recess has a bottom formed with an internally threaded fastener hole. Each anti-slip member includes a screw having a shank that threadedly engages the fastener hole in the recess in the distal part of one of the lateral walls, and an anti-slip block having an anchoring portion secured to a head of the screw, and a contact portion that projects upwardly relative to the top side of the left and right lateral walls.
Abstract: A bicycle pedal is described that is more easy to engage and disengage and that has a hollowed out central section to prevent debris build-up. The bicycle pedal has a pedal body rotatably supported by a pedal shaft wherein the pedal body has planar pedal surfaces and a pivotable clamp member generally perpendicular to the surfaces of the pedal wherein the clamp member comprises a central contact surface and a clamp located at a lengthwise end of the clamp member. The clamp member extends out from a surface plane of the pedal for clamping to a cleat and the clamp also has a slideable guided surface acting in an arc-like way to perform a jaw-like movement. The bicycle pedal also has an urging device disposed against the clamp member such that it contacts a central contact surface of the clamp member and urges the clamp member inwards.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 1998
Date of Patent:
May 8, 2001
Assignee:
Ritchey Designs, Inc.
Inventors:
Thomas W. Ritchey, Johannes Schneeberger
Abstract: A bicycle pedal system with adaptable pedal thread surfaces includes a pedal (3) having a first tread surface (4) and an adapter (5) attachable to the first tread surface. The adapter defines a second tread surface (7) opposite to a surface thereof facing the first tread surface when the adapter is attached to the first tread surface. The first and second tread surfaces provide different use modes. The first tread surface (4) includes a cleat engaging device (4a) for engaging a cleat, and the second tread surface (7) defines an antislip device (16) suited to treading by a shoe. In an alternative pedal system, the first tread surface (14) defines an antislip device (16) suited to treading by a shoe, and the second tread surface (19) includes a cleat engaging device (20, 21).
Abstract: A pedal for a racing bicycle in which a coupling structure is provided for enabling a pedal body to be coupled to a cage and turned about a shaft within a limited angle relative to the cage, wherein the coupling structure includes an end cap mounted in a stepped hole in the cage and engaged into locating grooves at the pedal body, the end cap having a locating block inserted into a sliding groove in the stepped hole inside the cage to limit the turning angle of the pedal body relative to the cage, a screw mounted in a countersunk hole at the end cap and threaded into a screw hole at the pedal body to fix the end cap to the pedal body, and a torsional spring mounted on the end cap and connected between a locating hole inside the pedal body and a notch in the stepped hole inside the cage for enabling the pedal body to be returned to its former position after each rotary notion.
Abstract: A pedal including a main body having a first side and a second side, the first side of the main body defining a first clipless retaining structure, and the second side of the main body defining a second clipless retaining structure. The first clipless retaining structure is a road bike clipless retaining structure and the second clipless retaining structure is a mountain bike clipless retaining structure. The pedal can include a cleat adapter for installation into the first clipless retaining structure wherein the cleat adapter includes a lock mechanism to fix the cleat adapter in the first clipless retaining structure. The lock mechanism has a locked position to fix the cleat adapter in the first clipless retaining structure, and an unlocked position to allow the cleat adapter to release from the first clipless retaining structure.
Abstract: A clipless pedal system for bicycles includes a pedal platform and two cleat retainers. The cleat retainers have hooked ends and are held against opposite sides of the pedal platform. A resilient loop encircles the pedal platform, holding the cleat retainers against the pedal platform. The ends of the cleat retainer may pivot away from the pedal platform by elastic deformation of the loop, allowing insertion of a cleat attached to a cycling shoe.
Abstract: A clipless bicycle pedal system incorporating a pedal and cleat, the pedal being a block with a generally convex symmetrical curved top and bottom surface and being circular in the lateral plane. Grooves are formed in the circumferential edge of the block, with at least one groove each in the leading and trailing edges of the block. The cleat is a plate which is to be fixed to the sole of a rider's shoe and has a concave recess therein which corresponds to the convex surface of the pedal block. Within the recess is a spring-loaded tongue which is adapted to be removably seated in the grooves of the pedal block.