Need help to change track pedal
 

Hi all,

Am totally new to this forum, to be more precise joined today only.Am Renju and am from Netherlands aka Holland, the land of Bikes.Recently I bought a Giant cycle (Used one) after seeing the advertisement in a website.It has 18 Shimano gears and its written that Hand built in Holland.It has a biopace crankset and its really in gud working condition.I spent 42€ for that.
Very recently only I knew that its very old and really a gud one.My only problem is that its pedals.They are track pedals (with clip) and as am not used with that kind of pedals, its quite annoying for me and am not able to cycle it properly ( The guy from whom I bought the bike told me tat, u need special shoes to ride them).So I have juz took off those clips and kept apart.I would like to change those pedals to the new type (Ordinary one).

My queries are as follows
1)Can I change those?
2)If yes how can I?

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks in advance

Renju

You'll probably get better response if this were posted in the Bicycle Mechanics section. This section is more for forum issues/assistance than bike maintenance/repair assistance.

But to answer the questions:
1) yes, you can change them.
2) go to your local bike shop and purchase a pair of pedals of the type you desire. Apply a small amount of grease to the threads and thread them into the cranks. Tighten them down with a wrench/spanner.

Thanks..
 

Hi Monogodo,

Thanks for those valuable comments and sorry for the posting in wrong section :)

This has been answered already, but I'm moving this to Bike Mechanics from Forum Suggestions. Welcome to the Forums, Renju!

--Juha, a Forum Mod

Any modern pedals, which have 9/16" diameter threads, will fit.

Something that can be important to know:

a) On an old bike that hasn't been serviced in a while pedals can be stuck really tight

b) pedals come in "left" and "right", and with different threads. If you don't know quite what you're doing it can be difficult to separate between trying to unscrew in the wrong direction and trying to unscrew something that's badly stuck. A neat trick I've read somewhere is that the tool should be turned towards the rear of the bike when unscrewing a pedal regardless of side of bike.

One comment. Giant is an Asian company and Shimano is Japanese. The only way your bike could have been "Hand built in Holland" is if that means a local bike shop unpacked it from the shipping box and did the final adjustments.

You will need a 15 mm open end wrench or, if the wrench flats are too narrow, a special thinner 15 mm pedal wrench, to remove the old pedals and install the new ones. The right pedal has conventional right-hand threads. The left pedal has the opposite (left-hand) threading so pedals are side-specific.

Hi all,

Thanks for those valuable comments and I've changed it like 123...

Once again thanks a lot :)

Renjusss