Originally Posted by
aixaix
Reading this makes my nether regions twinge. You've been spared serious injury so far; don't wait for fate to send you a registered letter warning you of the consequences...
You don't need to replace them all at once with period-correct pedals. There are plenty of inexpensive pedals around that will do while you hunt down more desirable replacements. Around here, most bike shops have a milk crate or two filled with good used pedals.
Sorry for the 'twinge'. When I said 'if I can' I assumed 'safely' would be understood.
I had to take some motorcycle heads to a machine shop for new valves and seats yesterday (coincidentally, because BMW used the wrong material for the seats back in 1981 to 1983) and as the Peugeot is my only bike with a saddlebag I went on that. I found was that I was unwilling to get off the saddle so it's obvious that I have lost confidence in the pedals on that bike, the right pedal is the pair of the one that broke the other day and the replacement left pedal is one from the same lot of 2 NOS pairs that the other pair of broken ones came from.
The first 2 breakages were within a couple of weeks of fitting them to my fixed-gear Chesini Pista. The Peugeot has seen very little use in the 2 and a half years since I built it - maybe a total of 100 miles. However, the Lyotard 460D pedals on my Dawes were well-worn when I started using them around 3 years ago and since then have seen regular and hard use. The ones on my Hetchins MO likewise have see a lot of regular, hard use. I won't know how I feel about the Dawes and Hetchins pedals until I ride the bikes but I think they are probably okay. These pedals have been used by serious cyclists since the 1930s so they can't all be bad.
Thanks for the tip about bike shops.