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11-12-15 | 01:53 PM

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RubeRad

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Agreed. Once you've done it enough it surely becomes so automatic you can even do it after two beers.

11-12-15 | 02:43 PM

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I'd be afraid of cross-threading. I ruined a nice crank once by letting a friend's kid 'help' me with some pedals, I didn't realize he had cross-threaded my pedal and jammed it in there until the pedal fell out when I was riding. Fortunately a local shop was able to save the crank with helicoil.

Some day I'm going to get an old crank arm and try this. I want to see how hard you have to wrench on it.

It is incomprehensible to me that you can do this and not realize you're forking it up.

11-12-15 | 04:56 PM

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It was because it wasn't me that did it, it was the kid. I did not properly supervise him, or even check his work.

11-12-15 | 05:58 PM

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It was because it wasn't me that did it, it was the kid. I did not properly supervise him, or even check his work.

I realize that, but how can anybody successfully fully tighten reverse threaded pedals in a forward threaded hole?

I can easily tell if I have something cross threaded that is a clockwise bolt in a clockwise hole.

11-12-15 | 07:51 PM

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