Originally Posted by
datlas
Anyone remember this classic? RIP PCAD.
Jobst Brandt proposed a solution to this stupidity ages ago, that would allow for backwards compatibility, and to upgrade existing cranks to a proper pedal interface.
A 45° taper cut into the crank around the pedal thread, with split collets to adapt existing pedals, while future pedals could have the taper integrated. It'd prevent this sort of utterly preventable failure caused by the fretting inherent to this piss-poor interface.