Clever Bugger....
09-11-21, 07:07 AM
#1
Tange
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 118
Bikes: 1974 Raleigh Super Course Mark II, 1977 Nishiki International, 1977 Motobecane Super Mirage, 1984 Team Fuji, 1985 Schwinn Traveler, 1986 Schwinn Prelude, 1986 Raleigh Technium, 1988 Cannondale "Crest", 1996 Giant ATX 830, 2005 Trek 1000
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 33 Post(s)
Liked 73 Times
in
29 Posts
Clever Bugger....
I bought an old steel framed Fuji a few years ago, stripped it down, and threw the pedals in a bin. I pulled them out today to see if they're worth keeping, and noticed this (see photo). The previous owner discovered the threading on a Presta valve was the same as the pedal screw, and put a Shrader/Presta adapter there to have it available if he needed it. I was a bike messenger for over five years, before clipless pedals, and I can't believe I didn't think of this.
Last edited by chiefkurtz; 09-11-21 at 07:16 AM.
Likes For chiefkurtz:
09-11-21, 08:19 AM
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Menomonee Falls, WI
Posts: 1,745
Bikes: 1984 Schwinn Supersport, 1988 Trek 400T, 1977 Trek TX900, 1982 Bianchi Champione del Mondo, 1978 Raleigh Supercourse, 1986 Trek 400 Elance, 1991 Waterford PDG OS Paramount, 1971 Schwinn Sports Tourer, 1985 Trek 670
Mentioned: 7 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 571 Post(s)
Liked 919 Times
in
474 Posts
That is a CV pedal, fits perfect here, thanks for posting.
Tim
Tim
09-11-21, 08:23 AM
#4
Humble Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Kalamazoo MI
Posts: 20,874
Bikes: Fuji SL2.1 Carbon Di2 Cannondale Synapse Alloy 4 Trek Checkpoint ALR gravel Viscount Aerospace Pro Colnago Classic Rabobank Schwinn Paramount
Mentioned: 56 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2900 Post(s)
Liked 5,394 Times
in
3,156 Posts
In your opinion, which forum would have been better to show a C&V pedal hack than C&V?
__________________
Likes For cb400bill:
09-11-21, 08:32 AM
#5
(rhymes with spook)
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Winslow, AR
Posts: 2,795
Bikes: '83 univega gran turismo x2, '85 schwinn super le tour,'89 miyata triple cross, '91 GT tequesta, '90 yokota grizzly peak, '94 GT backwoods, '95'ish scott tampico, '98 bonty privateer, '93 mongoose crossway 625, '98 parkpre ariel, 2k'ish giant fcr3
Mentioned: 26 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 919 Post(s)
Liked 740 Times
in
546 Posts
Likes For thook:
09-11-21, 09:07 AM
#6
Tange
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 118
Bikes: 1974 Raleigh Super Course Mark II, 1977 Nishiki International, 1977 Motobecane Super Mirage, 1984 Team Fuji, 1985 Schwinn Traveler, 1986 Schwinn Prelude, 1986 Raleigh Technium, 1988 Cannondale "Crest", 1996 Giant ATX 830, 2005 Trek 1000
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 33 Post(s)
Liked 73 Times
in
29 Posts
This sounds like something my sister in law would say...no matter which route I take to a destination, she'll tell me about another one I could have taken.
Likes For chiefkurtz:
09-11-21, 09:27 AM
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 2,356
Mentioned: 37 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 899 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 998 Times
in
597 Posts
I bought an old steel framed Fuji a few years ago, stripped it down, and threw the pedals in a bin. I pulled them out today to see if they're worth keeping, and noticed this (see photo). The previous owner discovered the threading on a Presta valve was the same as the pedal screw, and put a Shrader/Presta adapter there to have it available if he needed it. I was a bike messenger for over five years, before clipless pedals, and I can't believe I didn't think of this.
I leave mine on one of the valves, 50% of the time it could not be closer to where I need it.
09-11-21, 09:27 AM
#8
PBP Ancien (2007)
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: South Wales, UK
Posts: 343
Bikes: Cannondale CAADX (for commuting), Cannondale CAAD12, Cannondale CAAD12 Team CNCPT, Giant Contend 2
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 74 Post(s)
Liked 153 Times
in
103 Posts
Clever that. Thanks for posting!
Likes For Welshboy:
09-11-21, 09:46 AM
#9
Senior Member
A PV adapter carried on the pedal was a pretty common practice at one time. A time when you topped off your tires at gas station air pumps ( for free! ) and refilled your water bottle ( always singular) from the radiator filling hose while you were there. Of course you did have to listen to the gas station attendant ( unless you live in Oregon or NJ, you might need to look up that term) tell you that your tires would explode if you put in more than 50 psi. But that was less of a hassle than trying to fill tubulars with a Silica frame pump.
09-11-21, 10:53 AM
#10
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Medford MA
Posts: 2,043
Bikes: Ron Cooper touring, 1959 Jack Taylor 650b ladyback touring tandem, Vitus 979, Joe Bell painted Claud Butler Dalesman, Colin Laing curved tube tandem, heavily-Dilberted 1982 Trek 6xx, René Herse tandem
Mentioned: 78 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 938 Post(s)
Liked 1,378 Times
in
702 Posts
__________________
Owner & co-founder, Cycles René Hubris. Unfortunately attaching questionable braze-ons to perfectly good frames since about 2015. With style.
Owner & co-founder, Cycles René Hubris. Unfortunately attaching questionable braze-ons to perfectly good frames since about 2015. With style.
Likes For scarlson:
Likes For BFisher:
09-11-21, 11:48 AM
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Medford MA
Posts: 2,043
Bikes: Ron Cooper touring, 1959 Jack Taylor 650b ladyback touring tandem, Vitus 979, Joe Bell painted Claud Butler Dalesman, Colin Laing curved tube tandem, heavily-Dilberted 1982 Trek 6xx, René Herse tandem
Mentioned: 78 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 938 Post(s)
Liked 1,378 Times
in
702 Posts
09-11-21, 01:14 PM
#13
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: PDX
Posts: 12,501
Bikes: Merz x 5 + Specialized Merz Allez x 2, Strawberry/Newlands/DiNucci/Ti x3, Gordon, Fuso/Moulton x2, Bornstein, Paisley,1958-74 Paramounts x3, 3rensho, 74 Moto TC, 73-78 Raleigh Pro's x5, Marinoni x2, 1960 Cinelli SC, 1980 Bianchi SC, PX-10 X 2
Mentioned: 245 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3934 Post(s)
Liked 4,896 Times
in
2,866 Posts
Likes For merziac:
09-11-21, 01:17 PM
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: PDX
Posts: 12,501
Bikes: Merz x 5 + Specialized Merz Allez x 2, Strawberry/Newlands/DiNucci/Ti x3, Gordon, Fuso/Moulton x2, Bornstein, Paisley,1958-74 Paramounts x3, 3rensho, 74 Moto TC, 73-78 Raleigh Pro's x5, Marinoni x2, 1960 Cinelli SC, 1980 Bianchi SC, PX-10 X 2
Mentioned: 245 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3934 Post(s)
Liked 4,896 Times
in
2,866 Posts
They also fit on the back of the clamp bolt of most C+V Campy Record, Nouvo and Super FD's. 
Likes For merziac:
09-11-21, 01:55 PM
#16
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: PDX
Posts: 12,501
Bikes: Merz x 5 + Specialized Merz Allez x 2, Strawberry/Newlands/DiNucci/Ti x3, Gordon, Fuso/Moulton x2, Bornstein, Paisley,1958-74 Paramounts x3, 3rensho, 74 Moto TC, 73-78 Raleigh Pro's x5, Marinoni x2, 1960 Cinelli SC, 1980 Bianchi SC, PX-10 X 2
Mentioned: 245 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3934 Post(s)
Liked 4,896 Times
in
2,866 Posts
09-11-21, 03:05 PM
#17
señor miembro
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Pac NW
Posts: 7,418
Bikes: Old school lightweights
Mentioned: 84 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3205 Post(s)
Liked 4,773 Times
in
2,486 Posts
Likes For Mr. 66:
09-11-21, 03:27 PM
#19
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: PDX
Posts: 12,501
Bikes: Merz x 5 + Specialized Merz Allez x 2, Strawberry/Newlands/DiNucci/Ti x3, Gordon, Fuso/Moulton x2, Bornstein, Paisley,1958-74 Paramounts x3, 3rensho, 74 Moto TC, 73-78 Raleigh Pro's x5, Marinoni x2, 1960 Cinelli SC, 1980 Bianchi SC, PX-10 X 2
Mentioned: 245 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3934 Post(s)
Liked 4,896 Times
in
2,866 Posts
Likes For Nwvlvtnr:
09-11-21, 05:12 PM
#21
cycles per second
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,930
Bikes: Early 1980's Ishiwata 022 steel sport/touring, 1986 Vitus 979, 1988 DiamondBack Apex, 1997 Softride PowerWing 700, 2001 Trek OCLV 110
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 44 Post(s)
Liked 71 Times
in
48 Posts
Likes For Gonzo Bob:
09-11-21, 05:33 PM
#22
Hoards Thumbshifters
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Signal Mountain, TN
Posts: 1,145
Bikes: '87 Bruce Gordon Chinook, '08 Jamis Aurora, '86 Trek 560, '97 Mongoose Rockadile, & '91 Trek 750
Mentioned: 11 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 230 Post(s)
Liked 295 Times
in
178 Posts
Um does no one else...
...just flip it upside down and use it as a stem cap? I've been carrying it this way since I was a kid.
Likes For mechanicmatt:
09-11-21, 05:50 PM
#23
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 3,989
Mentioned: 11 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1634 Post(s)
Liked 1,727 Times
in
995 Posts
That adaptor-on-the-pedal-screw trick takes me back.
I notice that all of the adapters pictured so far are the short version. In the mid-1960s, when I started riding racing bikes, the common Presta adapter was about a cm taller and would have been the standard version in Europe. But some, maybe most, ignorant American would-be racers (I include my 13-year-old self and the guys I rode with in the local bike club in that category) assumed that Presta valves worked like Schraeder valves and so insisted on short adapters where you could see the top of the valve stem. So the longer adapters eventually disappeared from the bike stores.
I notice that all of the adapters pictured so far are the short version. In the mid-1960s, when I started riding racing bikes, the common Presta adapter was about a cm taller and would have been the standard version in Europe. But some, maybe most, ignorant American would-be racers (I include my 13-year-old self and the guys I rode with in the local bike club in that category) assumed that Presta valves worked like Schraeder valves and so insisted on short adapters where you could see the top of the valve stem. So the longer adapters eventually disappeared from the bike stores.
09-11-21, 06:09 PM
#24
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 1,126
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 820 Post(s)
Liked 439 Times
in
291 Posts
That adaptor-on-the-pedal-screw trick takes me back.
I notice that all of the adapters pictured so far are the short version. In the mid-1960s, when I started riding racing bikes, the common Presta adapter was about a cm taller and would have been the standard version in Europe. But some, maybe most, ignorant American would-be racers (I include my 13-year-old self and the guys I rode with in the local bike club in that category) assumed that Presta valves worked like Schraeder valves and so insisted on short adapters where you could see the top of the valve stem. So the longer adapters eventually disappeared from the bike stores.
I notice that all of the adapters pictured so far are the short version. In the mid-1960s, when I started riding racing bikes, the common Presta adapter was about a cm taller and would have been the standard version in Europe. But some, maybe most, ignorant American would-be racers (I include my 13-year-old self and the guys I rode with in the local bike club in that category) assumed that Presta valves worked like Schraeder valves and so insisted on short adapters where you could see the top of the valve stem. So the longer adapters eventually disappeared from the bike stores.
09-11-21, 06:17 PM
#25
Phyllo-buster
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 8,636
Bikes: roadsters, club bikes, fixed and classic
Mentioned: 130 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2230 Post(s)
Liked 1,856 Times
in
1,142 Posts
