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Look Power Meter Pedals (Road u0026 Offroad!): Hands on!

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Today Look has announced two interchangeable power meter pedals, their Look KEO Blade carbon road pedal power meter, and their XTrack SPDbased power meter pedal. These two pedals share the same internals, allowing you to buy one set, and then an extra set of pedal bodies to swap back and forth between road and offroad. On the road side, Look’s new pedal is by far the lowestweight power meter pedal on the market, while on the MTB side, it has the highest droprating on the market.

I’ve been testing these in various iterations over the last few months, however, despite that, this isn’t an indepth review like I normally would release. I’ll detail why lower in the ‘Accuracy’ section, but as the famed bikeshop saying starts “I was just riding along…”, when things went…well…very wrong. As you’ll see, Look has taken these issues very seriously, even bringing engineers up to the DCR Cave this past weekend to disassemble and autopsy the unit. But this does mean my full normal review is slightly delayed while they get to the bottom of things. Again, more on that down below

Nonetheless, these pedals mark an interesting point for Look. Many may not realize Look is actually one of the cycling companies with the most power meter pedal experience. In fact, one could argue that no company has made as many power meter pedal variants as Look. They first started in 2011/2012, developing Polar’s power meter pedal system. From there they transformed that slightly to be their own shortlived iteration. Then in 2018, they partnered with SRM for their EXACT roadbased power meter pedal. SRM went on to develop their own MTB version solocup, the XPower, albeit that too has now been updated with Lookmade pedal bodies.

All of which brings us to these new pedals, which are built entirely from the groundup. That’s notable, because if you know my thoughts on the previous Lookdriven power meter design, which required very specific installation tools or positions, this does away with all of that. Just simply install like any other pedal, and you’re done.

With that, let’s dive into it. Oh, and as usual, this isn’t sponsored in any way. Look has sent a total of four sets of pedals up for evaluation and review, plus another 12 sets likely arriving in the next day or two per the details down below. Once I’m done reviewing them, I’ll charter a semitruck to get all these pedal sets back to them. If you found this notreview useful, you can consider becoming a DCR Supporter, which gets your access to behind the scenes videos and an adfree dcrainmaker.com

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