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10-03-20, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by stubert58

Thanks for the replies and sharing your experience. They engineer in me was wondering if there was some exotic purpose like adding more weight to the non-SPD side to ensure the SPD side was always facing up.

It is my experience that the SPD side is facing in a random direction on newer pedals that still have tight seals and lots of grease in the bearings.

And once the seals have loosened up and most of the grease has disappeared, the SPD side usually faces aft. I am not familiar with your specific pedal, but my other SPD/platform pedals work that way.

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