Alex Tony and I had the great honour of visiting the MKS factory whilst out in Japan earlier this month with Paul Price from Paul Components, the Grepp guys and the Blue Lug boys.
It is quite incredible what goes into making these things we put our dirty shoes on..Having now peaked behind the veil and seen the people behind the machines it is no wonder such meticulousness and care in every step of the manufacturing process by hand or otherwise translates into MKS being the kings of pedals.
I’ve loved them because they are pretty, comfy and spin forever, but I now know also why and how. From converts to disciples in a day.
Lot’s highlights, but one of them was definitely perusing the display cabinet of all the pedals they’ve ever made from the first ever one aptly and simply named “BIKE” from 1949 :)
This is also a light foreshadowing of exciting things to come next year..
Wink wink.
More on that in due course but keen eyes may be able to squint at something something at the end there as we were testing pedals out on Yuba’s Velo Orange Neutrino.
A 20 pic instagram carousel post wouldn’t have sufficed, as there was so much to take in and so here’s our first blog post with the wonderful pictures of Blue Lug’s in house photographer INDY aka Kanki Tsunemura.
Massive thank you again to Yuba for showing us around and Kasper and Shin for the giggles and translation.
And Paul..I will take you up on that invitation very very soon I hope!
MKS FACTORY VISIT
Written by Marlon Plein
