Shimano A530 pedals with skateboard tape

The A530 as standard is a great beginner SPD pedals, I chose the A530 because I knew that I would not be using the SPD side to ride around in the city, and knew that I would want to use them as touring pedals as well.

I found that the pedals were very slippery on the none SPD side, and even more so when it rained, this had to change. I found this user on the forum of mtbr.com showing how to drill holes in the pedals, so if someone out there want to do this, heres a link. I just didn’t want to go thought the whole process of drilling holes and screw down traction pins in them like the user did, my reason for that was that I want to bike around in soft beach sandals during the summer.

This was what I did, I grinned down all the bumps on the pedals, with the bumps gone, the pedals actually had better grip, but I wanted ever more grip, so I went down to my local skateboard shop bought a small piece of skateboard tape for a pound, though they were generous with the tape. I measured the tape to the pedals and cut out small pieces to not waste the tape to much, stuck it on.

Clean and easy process!