So I thought about posting this in the past, but never went through with it because I felt it could be a pretty stupid idea. My idea was mainly for plastic pedals, instead of a full plastic body with just a chromoly spindle, sealed or unsealed. I figured someone could try this, make a SKELETON for the pedal, mainly out of aluminum to keep it stiff and keep an okay weight. I do not believe steel would be a good idea, because that if the steel bends, the pedal can look all cracked apart and retarded.
I am using the Kink Senec Pedal as my example, because this was the EXACT pedal body shape I thought of... I made this diagram to help my idea.
The GREEN walls, represent where the updated SOLID walls, which have RED X's to designate which parts need the cutouts to be removed.
SO, the surrounding walls of the pedal will be solid Poly Carbonate (PC). There will be an aluminum piece that is the same outer shape of the pedal, but with no cutouts although the walls should be thickened to accommodate a tougher skeleton, ALSO having a block shape pedal, not a shape where on the front/back of the pedals are angled, completely boxed, but there can be cutouts that make the two gaps, from the front of the pedal, to the spindle, and from the back of the pedal to the spindle, in other words the top through bottom cutouts.
Back to that aluminum piece being the same body shape of the pedal, it will be scaled down, having a similar shape, BUT being able to fit within the same yet thickened size of the example pedal.
As for the people who might wonder about the spindle and how it will rotate, that is easy, machine out the aluminum pedal skeleton to allow the spindle to be able to taken apart and put back together with ease, this can ALSO possibly allow many plastic pedal designs to run SEALED bearings, without the cost of a sealed METAL pedal, I am referring to metal because a majority of them is where you can generally find sealed bearings, even outside of BMX. You can also just machine the center of the skeleton to fit the sealed bearings straight in.
About the many designs, this does not refer to slim pedals, as the aluminum body would become pointless since the aluminum body will need to be so thin, so beefier pedals, like the Shadow Ravager, Odyssey Twisted PC, Eclat Plaza, Eclat Slash, Eclat Surge, Animal Hamilton, etc.
Aside from just the body, this can allow for a stronger bond when applying METAL pins to plastic pedals, so for those pedal grinder people out there, this can possibly be a good metal/plastic hybrid type of pedal.
This might sound a little choppy at some parts, but I hope you guys get what I mean.
Welp, broke past 1000... yeeeee
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