So by now there is no denying that plastic pedals are everywhere, every company has put one out and a lot of dudes love them. Obviously if you have read any of my previous blogs you know I'm down with plastic, my only gripe being that you have to replace them relatively frequently, but something has got to give. One night I was checking out a couple spent Odyssey Twisted PC's that really didn't owe me anything, after a few sprocket grinds I had pretty much wiped the teeth right off them, and I had an idea that might get me a little more life out of my wrecked pedals. The cool thing about the Twisted PC's as well as a lot of other companies is that they basically use the same mold as they're aluminum pedals, so I thought why not drill out the spot where my plastic pins were and screw some removable pins through the holes just as they are on the aluminum version. Of course this will make your shin friendly plastics into an angrier slightly more deadly plastic metal hybrid, but it's still minor compared to what a metal pedal will do to your legs.

      I've tried this with my Odysseys as well as with my Eastern plastics and both seem to hold the pins in just fine, and you can replace them if you need to. So far I have only tried the Odyssey styled removable pins , which you insert and screw in from the other side, not the grub screw style that have an Allen key fitting on the topside, but I plan on trying that to if I can get my paws on some extra pins. The thing I like about them is that you don't need to replace every plastic pin with a metal one, I just did the four corner pins. As I was writing this article, I discovered I definitely wasn't the only one that thought this was a good idea, Odyssey has just released the JC PC pedal, which splits in half around the axle and the screws that hold it together end up being your pins when the poke out the other side, pretty slick.