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Pedals made to adjust the cleats position on shoes!
An early attempt at clipless pedals.
Adidas Systeme 3 pedals. Around 1988.
PEDALS!!! Clipless! Requiring the most unusual cleat ever.
A good way to remove the skin from your face and break a collar bone.
They are Addidas Systeme 3 pedals. They had to be used with the Addidas shoes.The shoe was the cleat. It had grooves in the side of the sole. You slid you foot onto the pedals. The lever released the shoe.
Early lock-in track pedals
Pedals to convert a normal bike crank to an eliptic powered bike.
Adidas Systeme 3 , nice shoes, no-quick-release pedal.
Something to throw at passing cars?
A Mistake!
Yep, I remember those Adidas pedals. I believe Merckx also had a version called Podio.
I believe these were properly called “Adidas Death Cleats”.
I’m going with Cinelli track pedals circa 1983
They are Podio.
They are Addidas Systeme 3 pedals – 1988
they are adidas pedals from circa 1988 i believe
Answer: Adidas pedals! Check out the picture of the original box.
Pedals
They have been launch just before the first generation of LOOK in 85-86