Pedal came off during my ride
10-18-23, 10:11 AM
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10-18-23, 10:35 AM
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I just bought my first “completely built” bike in many decades. My first ever e-bike. The very first thing I did to the bike was to re-torque every component.
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10-18-23, 11:32 AM
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Happened to me last year. Brand new Centaur crank and BB. I was on the trainer when the pedal came off, pulling all the threads with it. Took it back to the LBS, where neither of us discussed blame but the owner fixed it and didn't charge me. Their work has otherwise been flawless for well over a decade.
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10-18-23, 11:53 AM
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This is fairly uncommon. Only really seen it happen once. Much more common are pedals that are torqued on their arms waaay too much. If the pedal accepts a 6mm allen key, that's all I use to secure it. Leave the long pedal wrench in the tool box. 
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10-18-23, 09:56 PM
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Wasn't that shop the one that put the seatpost on because that was all they had?...or something like that.
Anyways, cool collection of frames you've accumulated recently.
10-19-23, 02:20 AM
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It's easy...Buy a pedal wrench and do it yourself, just make sure to put some grease on the threads before you install the pedals.
10-19-23, 06:34 AM
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Pretty much agree here. And use an actual pedal wrench for proper torque--not a 6mm hex...That's what the "mechanic" who installed them probably used.
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10-19-23, 07:14 AM
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OP, never seen it happen without improper assembly. Like others I've seen plenty of pedal failures, even snapped an XT spindle earlier this year resulting in a pedal failure, but if reasonably torqued I've never seen a new pedal just fall out. It was a screw up on the shop's part.
10-19-23, 08:36 AM
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Should have gone with Super Record? What's the cheap out? He paid a LBS to professionally assemble the bike, there's nothing cheaping out about that, would have been the wise and proper move to make if he doesn't trust himself to do the job properly.
OP, never seen it happen without improper assembly. Like others I've seen plenty of pedal failures, even snapped an XT spindle earlier this year resulting in a pedal failure, but if reasonably torqued I've never seen a new pedal just fall out. It was a screw up on the shop's part.
OP, never seen it happen without improper assembly. Like others I've seen plenty of pedal failures, even snapped an XT spindle earlier this year resulting in a pedal failure, but if reasonably torqued I've never seen a new pedal just fall out. It was a screw up on the shop's part.
10-19-23, 08:54 AM
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10-19-23, 08:56 AM
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That's what happened . . . btw, the bike now has a rigid seat post.
10-19-23, 09:59 AM
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10-19-23, 10:10 AM
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RATS!
Now I gotta go check my pedals.
Thanks...
Oh... That's a NICE BIKE!
Now I gotta go check my pedals.
Thanks...
Oh... That's a NICE BIKE!
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10-19-23, 12:02 PM
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If I were on a Campy crankset like the OP, I’d be using factory torque settings.
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10-19-23, 12:38 PM
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10-19-23, 09:59 PM
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10-20-23, 04:42 AM
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I don't think I've ever had a pedal come off. I did crossthread one on once and didn't know it until it took me about two hours to get it off because I thought its axle was bent. I've had enough nds crank arms come off, that I've grown paranoid any time I **** with cranks.
10-20-23, 05:03 AM
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If you actually bothered to read the thread, you'll realize that he was specifically talking about cheaped out pedals and cheaped out bearings. That was what my quote was responding to. Specifically.
10-20-23, 10:27 AM
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I did, op suggested in response to someone else that maybe the pedals were cheap chinese, doesn't state that they actually are, as in, maybe he isn't certain. From the pic they look like basic crank bros nylon pedals which every shop seems to keep in stock. Either way, I've never heard of any pedal having the bearings seize up and unscrewing the pedals, not to mention how ridiculously doubtful it would be that the bearings in any pedal would seize up that fast regardless of how cheap. The pedals that I have seen bearing failures on the bearings were destroyed to the point they came out of the pedals or the pedal became unrideable as it wouldn't turn at all. But the idea that cheap pedals did this is silly. Just a shoddy job.
10-20-23, 12:07 PM
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Always a good idea to visually inspect the bike yourself. Pedals not threaded all the way in would be easy to spot. Lots of problems are easy to spot by simply riding around the block and then returning to the shop to have anything fixed and avoid a second trip.
10-20-23, 02:37 PM
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Bike shop mechanic messed up on pedal installation and failed to tighten them properly and some posters are blaming OP for using cheap pedals or defective pedals with bad bearings, typical bikeforums 
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I don't know ... there was a time when money was tight and I was using one set of pedals on three different bikes and 'finger tight' on the pedal flats worked just fine for easy swapping without getting out the big ass Park Tool pedal wrench every time. And these were about as cheap as pedals get. Don't think it was the price of the o.p. pedal(s) but it was more the condition of the bearings in the pedal that came loose. That bike is crying for some Shimano M540's in any case.