IN BRIEF
Look is rounding out its range of lit pedals with the Geo City Vision, sold at €79.90 — half the price of the Geo City Grip Vision launched at €150. The idea: a light housed inside the pedal, which follows the movement of the leg to make the cyclist more visible. The brand claims visibility multiplied by 5.5 and detection up to 900 metres away. USB-C charging in three hours, IPX7 water resistance and a magnetic light unit that unclips one-handed. The one drawback: both flashing modes are banned on the road in France.
| Price | €79.90 a pair |
| Weight | 190 g per pedal (380 g a pair), 26 g of which for the light unit |
| Lighting | 3 to 42 lumens, 360° spread |
| Modes | 4 modes (Power Steady, Steady, Night Flash, Day Flash) |
| Battery life | ≈ 15 h in steady mode (up to 60 h flashing) |
| Charging | USB-C, 3 hours, twin cable supplied |
| Water resistance | IPX7 |
| Platform | 100 × 103 mm |
| Construction | Chromoly+ axle, composite body, twin sealed ball bearings |
| Made in | France |
Look is back on the lit-pedal beat. After the Geo City Grip Vision priced at €150, the French brand is releasing the Geo City Vision at €79.90, half as much. The principle has not changed: rather than clamping a lamp onto the seatpost or the back of the bike, Look houses the light directly inside the pedal, where the foot rises and falls. Enough to create a point of light travelling along just above the ground.
A light that moves with the legs
That is the whole argument for these pedals. A fixed light is hard to pick out; a moving light draws the eye. Look leans on the principle of “biomotion”: a driver spots a point of light following the rhythm of pedalling faster than a stationary lamp.
The brand puts figures forward: the cyclist would be up to 5.5 times more visible than with a fixed seatpost light, and detectable up to 900 metres away, across 360 degrees. A Clemson University study, led by Darlene E. Edewaard, points the same way: a static light is seen from less than 50 metres, a flashing light from a little more than 100, against more than 200 metres for a light mounted on the pedals. On the power side, the unit ranges from 3 to 42 lumens depending on the mode.
With the launch of the Geo City Vision, we are answering what is perhaps the greatest challenge facing today’s urban cyclist: being visible where it really counts.
Alexandre Lavaud, Global Product Manager at Look
One unit, one USB-C port
The real change from the Geo City Grip Vision lies in the charging. The older model had two modules per pedal, one at the front, one at the rear. Look moves here to a single unit per pedal, held by a magnet: you just unclip it one-handed to plug it in.
Charging is over USB-C, in three hours, for around fifteen hours of battery life in steady lighting. Look supplies a twin cable that feeds both units at once from a single port. A single button handles everything: switching on, changing mode with a short press, battery level with two presses. A “Start & Stop” system switches the light off after thirty seconds at a standstill and switches it back on at the first turn of the pedals. The whole thing is IPX7-certified, meaning watertight even when submerged for several minutes.
The snag: flashing modes remain banned in France
The Geo City Vision offers four modes: Power Steady, Steady, Night Flash and Day Flash. The last two flash — and that is where the trouble starts. French regulations require a steady light for position lamps. On public roads in France, you therefore have to make do with the steady modes.
That is not without effect on battery life: flashing, Look claims up to 60 hours, against around fifteen in steady mode. It remains that these pedals do not replace a regulation rear light: they complement it.
Farewell Vibram, and half the price
To bring the price down, Look cut into the tread. Gone is the Vibram rubber grip that made the reputation of the previous pedals. In its place, an in-house tread with diamond-shaped pins of differing heights, meant to hold a soft-soled trainer as well as a hard-soled city shoe. The brand claims the 100 × 103 mm platform keeps a good grip in all weather.
For the rest, this is a conventional pedal: Chromoly+ axle, composite body, twin sealed ball bearings, 190 grams per pedal, 26 of them for the light unit alone. Made in France, the Geo City Vision is already on sale on Look’s website, at €79.90.
You will still have to remember to unclip the unit to charge it: lighting that recharges on its own, from a dynamo, is not on the agenda yet.
