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Yeah, not too complicated at all. Tap out old pin, line new spings up, guide new pin through one side of the pedal and the springs, and tap the last bit of it back in. Think the plastic and carbon versions used threaded pins if I remember correct. Came to Atacs after having a SPD cage break on me, locking me into the pedal until I got my foot almost parallel with the spindle, and had a few friends snap various parts of Crankbrothers (yes, I hear about the better reliability of the new stuff, but when your buddy snaps a spindle riding off a curb and ends up bleeding profusely I think it's ok to still be a bit gunshy).Those Aliums have definitely outlived their maybe $50 in total ownership costs so far. The Camry of the pedal world.

Hear hear to the Atac's. I have a set of Aliums that are 18 years old at this point. Replaced the pins once and the springs twice and have never had to touch the bearings. Why people go for SPD style pedals is beyond me.

That is a good tip to keep in my mental toolbox.

No qualms here with their CS from the last 20 years, either from a consumer, shop, or industry level they've taken care of me when a problem's arisen, and they've taken care of our customers just as well. 

As for the post, I'm curious if this is a rebranded Tranz X YSP12 post. Looks spot on identical, even to the trigger.

The JIS BSA generally have turns with people replacing worn out units or doing a single speed conversion. The Swiss Phil Wood BB is likely going to be in inventory for an additional 10-15 years. Should capitalize well in the vintage market at that point. Heck, let's not even talk about both Octalink varieties and ISIS. My point is that standards are not what people think they should mean. And Powerspline BB's are terrible. Given the shear variety of BB's we see from the past, why freak out when a company makes a unit to fit modern frame standards and their cranks only? It's not like it's the first time they or anyone else have done it. If it works, aces, if it provides no real change, then we can bemoan them.

As someone who still has bins of 115, 118, 122mm JIS square taper BB's (in Italian, French, and English thread) and a few 111 ISO (English, Italian, and Swiss) square tapers at the shop, I never understood the uproar over DUB, and I am by no means a SRAM fan. Their Powerspline BB causes me more grief than I see DUB ever causing.

It's a toughie these days here in Canada's nether region. Reasonable discourse is (and arguably has been) out the window and a lot of zealots, predominantly on the right, have taken this up as a battle cry. The Constitution is a living and evolving document, but that is a lost point to many. Too many absolutist statements on both sides, and no one is willing to converse IRL without their respective affiliations' bullet points at the ready and ear plugs in place. You're witnessing the fall of a nation from up there in the US's coiffure. As for the financial protests, I think it's the right of a company to do what they feel best aligns with their interests and values. If that means pulling some product from the shelves, fine. If that means social media platforms banning/striking down fascist/white power DB's, I'm cool with that. The shop I worked at abandoned Bell/Giro/Blackburn/Camelback when they started showing up online for less than we wholesaled them. This new issue is just another small feather in a big hat to avoid supporting those brands.

I don't get the uproar. GXP was already a proprietary crank to bottom bracket interface, so why the hoopla on this? The only thing that will be a pain is sourcing bottom brackets for current DUB cranks (which will eventually be less an issue) and sourcing them for GXP/BB30/PF30 Sram cranks (which won't be much of one 'til a decade or more down the road). Much ado about nothing, as Billy Shakespeare would say. Only thing I am sorta down on the design is they still use an integrated spindle. I get design optimization, but from a consumer, shop, and manufacturing standpoint it seems a more practical solution to transferability and SKU counts. Race Face and FSA seem to understand this.

Yeah, almost 90's rave scene baggie when cut too. I went with a set of Craft and Cannondale pants. Snipped em off above the leg zippers, undid the inner seam about 6" and overlapped them another inch to get them to fit a bit tighter. If that's a stretch I'll bet you can find a seamstress/tailor locally that can do the job for rather little outlay.

On the waterproof knickers front, I cut a pair of rain pants and hemmed them. Yes, rainy rides are better with knees covered, especially when the temps dip below 60. Momma did right teaching me to sew while poppa did right teaching me how to wrench. On the short front, the Bontrager Evoke Stormshells have done me well when above 60deg. Any thoughts on how Endura compares?