Jerry Moos said: "So was there a connection between Weyless and Bob Reedy? The Speedplay pedal "museum" shows Bob Reedy pedals nearly identical to Weyless. In fact the later Suntour Superbe Pro was extremely similar as well."
Someone posted a link yesterday to their personal site of bicycling mag scans (which is inconveniently on my home computer) and pointed to a review of the 1976 Bike Show at the NYC Coliseum. The article specifically credits the pedal design to Bob Reedy I believe. Maybe it was posted from the gent previously from the frozen flatlands and now in the cloudy climate?
Back then I was a kid who worked part time in my local shop and those days at the bike show were the highlight of each year. I would come home with a shopping bag full of literature and pore over it for months. Having come into the sport from the touring perspective I wasn't knowledgeable enough at the time to kiss Eddy Merckx's ring when I met him there. In a way it was torture because I wanted everything I saw (including some of the scantily clad models hired to draw attention) but couldn't afford the stuff. A woman contortionist on a platform for some lubricant company (wd-40?) stands out.
But I have some of those things now so better late than never!
Len Diamond
Ridgewood, New Jersey USA