Patent ID: 8646358

Claim:
A safety bicycle pedal, particularly for mountain bikes, comprising a body mounted such that it can rotate about a pedal spindle, and which has two faces with, on at least one of the two faces of the pedal: a front clip arrangement situated forward of the pedal spindle, and a rear clip arrangement situated to the rear of the pedal spindle, at least one of the front clip arrangement or the rear clip arrangement being able to move and capable of being moved, against an action of at least one elastic return means, in a direction substantially orthogonal to the pedal spindle to move away from the other of the front clip arrangement or the rear clip arrangement, limiting stop means being provided on the body to hold one of the at least one moving clip arrangements in position against the action of the elastic return, the assembly being such that a shoe equipped, under a sole, with a cleat that mates with the pedal, can have the cleat clipped onto the pedal by applying pressure to-the said pedal whereas the shoe can be released from the pedal by a twisting movement of the shoe, each moving clip arrangement being pivot-mounted in relation to the pedal body, wherein the pedal body comprises a central barrel having an internal housing to accept the pedal spindle, the elastic return means (Ea) of each moving clip arrangement (Sa) is formed of at least one flexing element which runs transversely to the pedal spindle and on at least one face of the pedal, wherein each flexing element presses against the central barrel, outside the internal housing, one end of the at least one flexing element collaborates with one of the at least one moving clip arrangements on one face of the pedal, and the other of the at least one flexing element end collaborates with the pedal body equipped with the other of the front clip arrangement or the rear clip arrangement of that same face of the pedal, wherein a central zone of the flexing element presses against the pedal body, a first end stop and a second end stop positioned respectively on the body and on the bow, each of the first and second end stops positioned to limit longitudinal slipping of the flexing element, and each of the first and second end stops being positioned with a clearance between respective ends of the flexing element so as to not impede elastic deformation of the flexing element, wherein the flexing element is subjected to flexing at three points, the first point being a zone of contact between the upper end of the flexing element and the moving clip arrangement, said first point being farther from the central barrel than an articulation axis of the moving clip arrangement, the second point being a zone of contact between a central lower part of the flexing element and a central zone of the body, the third point being a zone of contact between the other upper end of the flexing element and that part of the body that lies under the other clip arrangement.