Originally Posted by nlerner
Yeah, I guess those pedals might be a weak point. But those were German made (Union) by then, right?! I've managed to bend them as well, and I weigh around 170.
Neal
In 1964, pedaling home standing up on a flat, the non-drive side pedal sheared clean off on my high end Rudge 'English racer' Sturmey Archer 3-speed with then hot 27" wheels. One trip to the emergency room, nine stitches over my left eye, and forty some odd years later here I am. Had this happened today, in our litigious society, I might well own the company. When it happened, I was 165#.
The Rudge, sadly, was given away by my mother to some cousins in Montclair NJ while I was off adventuring on hiatus from college.
Who knows, the old bike might still be knocking around there in bridge and tunnel land.