Changing Pedals

Graham@kendall$hangout.freeserve.co.uk schreef ...

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Hi All,

Here's hoping you can help me, I have just bought a new pair of pedals for my 11 yr old bike. I've
managed to get the old pedal off of the spindle, exposing the old ball bearings, but I can't do
anything to remove the spindle from the crank.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

Yes, you should remove the entire pedal with the spindle still in int. To do this you'll needs a
pedal wrench similar to this one: parktool.comHCW 6.shtmlOpen ↗ Park Tools are not cheap
but very good, much cheaper ones are available at bike stores. Or your could try to use a 15 mm.
open end wrench.

Note: the RH pedal has a normal thread, the LH pedal has reversed threading. Meaning it comes off
when the spindle is turned clockwise in relation to the crank, so exactly the opposite of
the RH pedal.

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Graham@kendall$hangout.freeserve.co.uk schreef ...

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Hi All,

Here's hoping you can help me, I have just bought a new pair of pedals

for

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my 11 yr old bike. I've managed to get the old pedal off of the

spindle,

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exposing the old ball bearings, but I can't do anything to remove the spindle from the crank.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

Yes, you should remove the entire pedal with the spindle still in int. To do this you'll needs a
pedal wrench similar to this one: parktool.comHCW 6.shtmlOpen ↗ Park Tools are not
cheap but very good, much cheaper ones are available at bike stores. Or your could try to use a 15
mm. open end wrench.

Note: the RH pedal has a normal thread, the LH pedal has reversed threading. Meaning it comes off
when the spindle is turned clockwise in relation to the crank, so exactly the opposite of
the RH pedal.

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Regards, Marten

Thanks Marten,

I gave up in the end, and took the pedals I'd bought, and the bike down to the local bike shop for
them to sort it... When I got there the bird behind the counter told me that I had bought Standard (
9/16ths) pedals and that I had a 1/2" bike, so they weren't going to fit.

What I had bought were Diamondback Bigfoot 3 pedals, which quoted on the packaging to fit either
size with a Chromolly Spindle.

So now I've had to fit the pedals the bike shop want to fit, and not Mine
:-S

Can anyone help me!!!!!!

Graham

Graham Kendall Graham@kendall$hangout.freeserve.co.uk said:

my 11 yr old bike. I've managed to get the old pedal off of the spindle, exposing the old ball
bearings, but I can't do anything to remove the spindle from the crank.

It's not necessary to remove the pedal from the spindle.

There was recently a thread about pedal removal; take a look at this idea, which I tried the day
after reading it on a pretty stubborn bike and was successful: tinyurl.comjx1xOpen ↗ or
groups.google.comgroupsOpen ↗ 8&threadm=20030801084954.14640.00001273%40mb-
m02.aol.com&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Drec.bicycles%2Bpedal%2Bremove%2Bforward%2Bdown%26ie%3DISO-
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Yours,

Graham Kendall

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Rick Onanian

Graham Kendall Graham@kendall$hangout.freeserve.co.uk said:

the counter told me that I had bought Standard ( 9/16ths) pedals and that I had a 1/2" bike, so
they weren't going to fit.

What I had bought were Diamondback Bigfoot 3 pedals, which quoted on the packaging to fit either
size with a Chromolly Spindle.

How could pedals threaded end fit two different sized holes?

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So now I've had to fit the pedals the bike shop want to fit, and not Mine
:-S

Can anyone help me!!!!!!

Somebody else here may say why not, other than a little bit of structural strength loss, but you
should be able to drill those holes out and thread them with a tap. I'm not sure how to tap the
reverse-threaded side, though; you may need a reverse-thread tap (I can't imagine not needing it).

If you haven't got the tools, a machine shop can probably do it cheaply and do a good job of it.

Or, you could replace the crankset or just the crankarms.

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Graham

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Rick Onanian

Most pedals are removed with a 15 millimeter wrench, but astabula (one piece of bent metal) cranks
have a different size.

Basically, get a wrench that fits, AND REMEMBER the left hand pedal spindle threads of backwards
(left hand thread)

May you have the wind at your back. And a really low gear for the hills! Chris

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