Originally Posted by
TimothyH
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It really isn't a problem. Lean your bike over and see what it takes to scrape a pedal. It is an insane angle.
-Tim-
That does depend a lot on the bike and cranks as well as the pedals. My Peugeot UO-8 with sewups, 168 cranks and Leotard platform pedals hit all the time. My left pedal spent about half its life w/o a dustcap because scrapes spun it off (and tightened the right dustcap). A later Peugeot with 170s wasn't much better. I won't even consider going fixed on my Raleigh Competition.
Ben