Maintain those pedals!

The author of the great how-to on pedal maintenance can't follow his own
instructions? What has this world come to?

I cleaned and re-lubed my trials (unsealed) and muni (sealed) pedals
last month, following your how-to. Now they're like new! Sealed
pedals are easier to maintain 'cause you don't have to deal with the
ball bearings falling all over the place -- they're in a cartridge of
sorts that you can just pop out, clean up, lube, and re-insert.

For the unsealed bearings, I tapped the bearings out into a plastic
cup, spritzed a little WD-40 in the cup and swizzled the bearings
around to get the old grease off 'em. Worked like a charm! Make sure
to use two cups since some pedals have differently sized bearings on
either side of the spindle.

Another big help was having a large pair of tweezers with which to
reinsert the bearings into the pedal. No worries if you don't have
'em, you can also use a Q-Tip that's generously covered with grease...
dip the Q-Tip in your cup of bearings and you're guaranteed to pick up
two or three.

All in all it took me about 1 1/2 hrs to do two sets of pedals, and
this was the first time I'd ever done pedal maintenance. This has to
be the easiest maintenance job you could possibly do on your uni,
easier than changing an innertube, IMHO 😄

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Sealed or unsealed? If the pedal seized I'm guessing that they're
unsealed.

I just finished overhauling my muni today. New grease and o-rings in
the pedals, new anti-seize for the cranks, and general TLC all around.
It needed it. I've been taking it out on some wet trails. Now it's
all happy again.

I got a Coker flat recently and had to hitch a ride home. First time
that's ever happened to me. I usually don't carry flat repair
equipment for local Coker rides, and I wouldn't want to repair a Coker
flat on the side of the road anyways.

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john_childs said:

I wouldn't want to repair a Coker flat on the side of the road anyways.

why not?

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mornish said:

why not?

It can be a challenging and difficult thing to do. And it also can
take a good amount of time. The Coker tire and tube can be ornery to
get on and off an Airfoil rim. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's
not. With a stock steel Coker rim it would be almost trivial. The
tire is very easy to get on and off the stock rim.

It's much more convenient to do it at home where I have a full size
pump, talc powder, silicone spray, and all my tools.

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How ironic! Glad you got a ride home.

Thanks for the link. My boy was "long jumping" into some sand the
other day so I have some good candidates (and now instructions) for a
pedal rebuilding session.

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would Slime work for the coker tube? Do you still need to pump it up
again if it punctures?

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stuckinwheeliemode said:

would Slime work for the coker tube? Do you still need to pump it up
again if it punctures?

Slime likely would have likely prevented the flat I got. It was a
simple poke by a thorn. If the Slime seals fast enough you wouldn't
need to add additional air. Otherwise you may need to put a few pumps
of air in.

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Pity no-one told Roger about this before our 24 hour this weekend. He
ended up riding the first lap with only one pedal and a pedal spindle,
thanks to a pedal explosion. He was still the second of the four
unicyclists to finish that lap though!

Joe

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