MKS(三ヶ島) ペダル シルバン ストリーム [Sylvan Stream] 左右セット

Great value for a solid pedal made in Japan. Perfect for urban cycling without straps. Well built and sturdy. Narrow for better cornering with a fixed gear bike.

These are super high quality pedals. This is my second set. The original set is still smooth after five years.

Love these. Super good quality made in Japan. These are the bomb on my commute bike.

They’re great. I don’t know what else to say. It’s just pedals.

Definitely smaller than modern platform pedals, so that takes a little getting used to. But they spin free and look perfect on a retro build.

I've been using these on a fixed gear for a while now and can't believe I wasted so much time and money on other types of pedals.Like everyone else who started riding in the 1970s, I used toe clips in the mistaken belief that I needed to be able to pull upward on the pedals in addition to pushing down in the normal way. I thought there was something wrong with me, as I couldn't keep that kind of pedaling up for long. Never one to give up quickly on a bad idea, I later went through clipless pedals, which require bicycling shoes, then "Powergrips" which work well, can be used with any type of shoe, and are easy to exit from even if the entry is more difficult than many other designs (Powergrips do work well on recumbents, where they keep your feet from falling off the pedal). Yet I still couldn't keep up the technique of pulling upward, and assumed that I just wasn't in good enough shape to ride a bicycle to its full potential - not to mention, the difficulty of attaching my feet to the moving target of pedals on a fixed gear.This was cleared up when I read Mike Burrows' book Bicycle Design. The "engine" of a bicycle is the human body, and it is capable of only so much energy output. If you pull up on the pedals, it will only take away energy from pushing down. This is also why adding hand cranks to the front wheel doesn't make you go twice as fast. You can't create more energy from a finite source by adding more ways for that energy to be used; all you are doing is reducing the overall efficiency of the system. Sheldon Brown also has an article describing his experience on a long tour where he deliberately pulled up on the pedals with the resulting injury to his instep making it almost impossible to continue.Hence these pedals, which can be used with almost any kind of shoe, are "instant" on and off with no special attention needed, and look more appropriate to the bicycle. They keep my feet attached as well as any other kind, since they don't allow the shoe to move forward or back, and I'm not pulling up anymore. They're also light yet solidly made. I would recommend them for any kind of bicycle.

What can I say, they look great and work well.