The pedals are loose and wiggling where they attach to the crank. Actually it’s only the right one, the left one became loose already and was fixed for free where I bought the uni a week ago. They said something about a stripped crank. Is that what the problem is? Is there anything I can change in my riding style to stop myself from stripping both cranks every week? Or if not is there something that I could upgrade to so the cranks wouldn’t get stripped every week? I’d love to be able to uni knowing that I won’t have to take it into the shop 2 times a week to be fixed.
Also when they fixed the other crank they said something about Lock Quick or something like that and that the problem shouldn’t happen again to that crank. What is this stuff and do I have the name right?
Make sure you have the pedals on the correct sides (R on right, L on Left)
of the uni as it faces forward. If not they will continually loosen as you
ride.
“Gobd” <Gobd@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:Gobd.1bmb2a@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com…
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> The pedals are loose and wiggling where they attach to the crank.
> Actually it’s only the right one, the left one became loose already and
> was fixed for free where I bought the uni a week ago. They said
> something about a stripped crank. Is that what the problem is? Is there
> anything I can change in my riding style to stop myself from stripping
> both cranks every week? Or if not is there something that I could
> upgrade to so the cranks wouldn’t get stripped every week? I’d love to
> be able to uni knowing that I won’t have to take it into the shop 2
> times a week to be fixed.
>
> Also when they fixed the other crank they said something about Lock
> Quick or something like that and that the problem shouldn’t happen again
> to that crank. What is this stuff and do I have the name right?
>
>
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>The pedals don’t say left or right but I’m riding with the lift handle
>in front of me which is the right way.
Yes but the seat could be in the wrong way (180 deg wrong). Are you
sure the pedals aren’t marked? Check both ends of both pedal axles,
usually it’s on the inside end (that screws into the crank but you can
see it from the other end even when mounted). Alternatively, if you
have a pedal wrench, unscrew and retighten one pedal to see which way
you have to turn. You can tell L and R apart from the thread
direction. The right pedal has normal threading, but the left pedal
has reverse threading. Reverse meaning that it goes in
counterclockwise.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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Don’t necessarily believe what the bike shop told you. Mine said my pedals were shot, and I had only been learning to ride for about a month. Took it home and tightened the pedals, they were fine.
I agree that the Right pedal tightens to the right and vice versa for the Left pedal, and that riding is supposed to tighten the pedals, but wouldn’t riding loosen the pedals if they are tightened by screwing them in in the direction of the wheel travel.
In my mind, as the wheel spins (as you pedal), the pedals are being turned in the opposite direction of the wheel. So, if looking from the Right side of the wheel, the wheel is spinning to the Right (going forward) and the pedals are staying flat from pedaling, then the pedal is being spun left (backward), relative to the wheel. If the Right pedal is being spun to the left, then it is being loosened, not tightened, right?
make sure the unicycle is assembled correctly. there is a left and right to all pedals and cranks the pedals will be maked on the back end of the threading. the cranks should be marked on the inside.
what the main problem you might be having is if you ordered the unicycle for example online and it came in a box for your own assemply you m ay not have used a good grease to fix the pedals on. buy a tube of $6 “Phil’s Brand Grease” cover your threads really really good and reinstal the pedals onto a new set of cranks since the current ones are probably striped.
i have damaged two sets of cranks from poorly installed pedals (one on a Torker LX 20" in fact) and recently bought a used KH Trials unicycle from somone who also did not install the pedals correctly and stripped the inside. Darren Bedford did a little surgery on my cranks and re tapped them since i had little to no options for KH crank replacements.
if you dont mind having chrome cranks you can order a pair from Darren at Bedford unicycles for 20$ CAD. take the uni to your LBS have them pull the cranks off for you and re install the correct ones with grease on the threads this time and you will likely never have to replace the cranks agian unless you bend them doing a mad drop.
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:56:38 -0500, “hecklar” wrote:
>OK, i just search and found the answer to my question: precession.
>Thanks anyway.
Well, at least you phrased the question in a humble way. This issue
has come up time and again on the forum and some people rather go a
“Hey, I just discovered the bicycle industry has had it all wrong for
a century” way about it.
Someone with enough time on their hands should make a FAQ.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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