Ended up ordering another set of Fookers. First set where "Quality" and with needle bearings should be durable.
Now as to commentary on life choices:
Karmically at least 80% of my possessions are second hand, with a huge amount of sweat equity makeing things work. The pedals that need replacing, where pulled off a BMX at the scrapyard and rebuilt. They'll be fine for another thousand miles, I'm sure. But I don't have time to Hazmat suit up to buy little grade 5 machine screws at the hardware store, 30 minutes each way, burning fossil fuel. Yea I could ride a bike If I could hire a tutor/sitter for my kid, who would have to drive at least an hour to get here and back from town, not to mention that to get the $ to pay this tutor/sitter would require almost as many man hours as those paid for, and require an 1 1/2 of driving to just to get to the job. Then I gotta find the hour of shop time to drill all the holes and install all the little pins. Or I turn on the internet and decide whether to spend an extra $25 for the sticker on a product probably made by the same wage slave in the same factory over there. Yea that sucks. And their "comparatively" totalitarian government has some how white washed the conflict of pimping out the collective to capitalist pigs, but hey China now has a middle class, and hell its only been 3 generations since the Chinese have dealt with war and famine while being feudal peasants. Some times that extra $25 is just $25 of white privlledge spent to pretend that some how MeMeMe doesn't cast a shadow/smells like rose water.
So If any one else is looking for an acceptable set of flat pedals I suggest reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" first.
And take it from me the "angry angst ridden anarcho-punk socialist" program is great, except for the dental plan.
Last edited by bark_eater; 02-17-21 at 02:25 PM.