Crankbrothers Stamp 7 12,000 km Review 

Thanks for the review. I’ve also had these for a few years for long distance gravel and offroad bikepacking. They’re very grippy and stable for chunky gravel and steep descents likely overkill for smooth surfaces. Their exceptionally large size spreads foot pressure and placement on all day rides. Currently I get about 12,000km per service (replacement igus bearing kit). Nb Igus bearings last 5-10 times longer if properly greased with Moly or similar greases (on Igus site but not crankbrothers support). Overpacking with grease then removing that small ‘grease’ screw to bleed off excess during assembly. Overpacking also reduces pitting on the crankside bearing surface from water ingress. I keep using them ok with up to about 1mm lateral play on the crankside bearing but point I service is when the inboard axial ‘play’ has increased to the point where the preload no longer keeps the dust seal engaged.

Interesting review, I respect your opinion. I own them and must say, I´m absolutely amazed abou them, they are super grippy and comfortable. Maybe the point is, that they are gravity discipline pedals.... 12000 km is almost unreachable in gravity and they are primary designed to be grippy and tight... it´s like, you don´t buy offroad car to perform on a highway... But I will see after few seasons. I was just really surprised about the huge difference between our opinions.

Last time I was in the States four years ago I bought a pair of Meet Locks pedals off Amazon for $30. Zero maintenance for those four years until they started clicking and I opened them up yesterday and cleaned them out and put some new grease on them. They’ve been good for 40,000 km so far and hopefully they’ll be good for another few years. They look pretty much like yours and probably come from the same factory. I enjoyed the review and learning the fact that more expensive isn’t always better.

MKS fan here. Good looking and infinitely rebuildable. Cup and cone bearings - clean, adjust and regrease every 5 k kms. My Surly currently has the Bear Traps on, purchased here in TH for 1900 Baht. The Gordito is another recently added wide, attractive pedal.

The reason there so expensive is because there super grippy and in the mountain bike world are considered to be one of the best pedals

MKS Lambda has been our go to pedal for a long time now. Roughly $60 and have lasted a long long time for us. Slap some Power Grips ($25ish) on and you're golden. We are on our second pair but only because I was starting to worry they may fail on us. However, our first pair had probably every bit of 20,000 miles on them before swapping them out for the second set. Cheers from Florida! ~Ron

Good review

One to avoid then :-D 12,000km is a good distance though, that said if you had service them 6 times then I can understand why they are a hard no :)

wow, that's disappointing. Huge platform though. I'm a big fan of SPD/combo pedals but I've been touring in SPD shoes more than not lately

Sounds like you bought the wrong pedal mate. use them for what they are designed for and they are fantastic pedals. Super grippy and light. This is the problem with social media.. why didn’t you by a down hill rigg to do your 12,000k on? Because it’s not designed for that?

Excellent review, best avoided I think, thanks for the quality info.

Interesting review. I have used Crankbrothers Candy S1 clipless pedals for years now without any issu🚲es. Maybe the key word should be, yet! I have over 4000 miles (about 6500 K) on the touring set so not the distance you're talking about here. Not sure if there is any difference between the Candy clipless pedals and the flat pedals you are discussing here. I haven't had to service them yet, but not sure I would want to after seeing the problems you have had. Anyway, will definately steer away from the Stamp 7 as I am seriously thinking about going back to flat pedals.🚲

Wow what a disappointing product from a renowned company, have you contacted them about it? In comparison, i still have spd pedals on my gravel bike,time atac xc which i 've used also for12k without even considering the need for maintenance....

Dont like them then Jonny ? Dont sit on the fence or sugar coat it 😊