Originally Posted by
auchencrow
The crank came from an old Schwinn le Tour, and conceivably some PO had installed a left side pedal in it at some time. The odd thing is that I put about 100 hard miles on it before this happened -I would have thought it would have failed sooner in that case.
Your bike is a 1995 Marin Pine Mountain, which from the factory had White Industries branded Sugino cranks, the pedal looks very similar to the original which came with the bike. For the Schwinn crank, it could have been the 100 miles which did it in.