Bicycle Pedal Assembly

A bicycle pedal assembly comprising:

• a pedal body comprising:
• a first side configured to engage a foot of a user and including a cleat region, an opposing second side and a mounting cavity extending along a rotation axis, bounded by a cavity inner sidewall and configured to receive a spindle portion of an axle whereby the pedal body is rotatably mountable to a crank arm of a bicycle,
• wherein the pedal body is divided by a first plane, having a first side and a second side, intersecting the pedal body along a length of the pedal body and the rotation axis, and wherein the pedal body is divided by a second plane intersecting the pedal body at the rotation axis and perpendicular to the first plane, the second plane having a first side and a second side, and
• at least a first support plate receiving surface disposed in the cleat region and offset from the rotation axis;
• a cleat binding assembly, comprising a first binding portion disposed at a first portion of the cleat region and on a first side of the first and second planes and a second binding portion longitudinally spaced apart from the first binding portion at a second portion of the cleat region and on the first side of the first plane and a second side of the second plane, the cleat binding assembly configured to releasably retain a cleat so that when the cleat is retained within the cleat binding assembly the cleat is adjacent the first side of the pedal body and overlies the cleat region;
• a first support plate covering a first portion of the pedal body within the cleat region, the first support plate comprising an inner surface that bears against the first support plate receiving surface and an opposing outer surface configured to contact and support a first portion of the cleat when the cleat is retained by the cleat binding assembly;
• a cavity plane that is parallel to and spaced apart from the first plane and intersecting a portion of the cavity inner sidewall;
• and
• a support plate receiving plane that is parallel to the first plane and contains the first support plate receiving surface and is disposed between the cavity plane and the first plane.

A bicycle pedal assembly comprising:

• a pedal body comprising a mounting cavity extending along a rotation axis, bounded by a cavity sidewall and configured to receive a spindle portion of an axle and a bushing, a first side configured to engage a foot of a user and including a cleat region, an opposing second side spaced from the first side in a thickness direction that is orthogonal to the rotation axis, whereby the pedal body is rotatably mountable to a crank arm of a bicycle, the pedal body having an upper most portion that is spaced farthest from the rotation axis in the thickness direction and defining a maximum height plane that is parallel to and spaced from the rotation axis in the thickness direction and intersects the upper most portion of the pedal body;
• and
• a cleat binding assembly, comprising a first binding portion on a first side of the rotation axis and a second binding portion on a second side of the rotation axis and spaced apart from the first binding portion, the cleat binding assembly configured to releasably retain a cleat,
• a first contact surface disposed within the cleat region and configured to contact and support a first portion of the cleat when the cleat is retained by the cleat binding assembly, the first contact surface lying in and defining a cleat support plane that is between the rotation axis and the maximum height plane.