Everyone, I am writing this to warn you’s about Lasco cranks. I would NOT
recommend them for any type of riding. They are tempting for freestyle
because of their light weight (and worthless for muni because “they’re as
soft as butter”), but do not concede to that temptation. Aside from
bending and deforming at the crank-axle interface, I found that the pedal
threads are poorly manufactured also. While trying to remove the pedals
from my Lasco cranks earlier today I couldn’t even turn the pedal axle to
remove it. I checked at least a dozen (no exaggeration!) times to make
sure that I was unthreading the pedal but it would not move. After A LOT
of force I was able to remove the pedal. “Great!” I foolishly thought and
then I noticed. Some of the threads did not have the ridges; they were
just smooth. Further inspection showed that the pedal pulled some of the
crank’s threads out! So now the pedals are useless since they won’t thread
into new cranks.
The final result: Trashed cranks and trashed pedals.
Jeff
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I wrecked one of my pedals, too, with lasco cranks. (It was on my United/Monty trials uni) Actually, I took them off to ship it home.(I was working in Quebec this past summer at a Bible school/conference centre) When I took them off, on one pedal the threads has shiny aluminum caked in. When I tried to put them on again, I tried to scrape out the aluminum with a wire brush, but it was in real tight. I wanted to ride, so I said what the heck, and force the pedal on anyways. Of course it slid around in the crank, but I could ride it for a bit. Lascos suck. I got some $12 cdn($8 us) steel cranks on right now.
Before you throw out your pedals, you might want to see if a die can
restore their threads. Rather that buy the proper die, you could ask a
friendly machinist to do it for you.
John
-----Original Message----- From: jeff d tuttle
["]mailto:moosebreath1@juno.com] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:12 PM
To: rsu@unicycling.org Subject: fellow unicyclists, don’t make the
mistake I did
Everyone, I am writing this to warn you’s about Lasco cranks. I would NOT
recommend them for any type of riding. They are tempting for freestyle
because of their light weight (and worthless for muni because “they’re as
soft as butter”), but do not concede to that temptation. Aside from
bending and deforming at the crank-axle interface, I found that the pedal
threads are poorly manufactured also. While trying to remove the pedals
from my Lasco cranks earlier today I couldn’t even turn the pedal axle to
remove it. I checked at least a dozen (no exaggeration!) times to make
sure that I was unthreading the pedal but it would not move. After A LOT
of force I was able to remove the pedal. “Great!” I foolishly thought and
then I noticed. Some of the threads did not have the ridges; they were
just smooth. Further inspection showed that the pedal pulled some of the
crank’s threads out! So now the pedals are useless since they won’t thread
into new cranks.
The final result: Trashed cranks and trashed pedals.
Jeff
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The common problem with bikes is the peddle getting stuck becasue of too much pressure when installed and not enough grease! grease the sucker up and dont screw the peddle on so hard!
And with the stripped out crank, go to the machinest and get him to install a heli coil in it! it will cost about 30 australian dollars, and is stronger than the original threading in the crank!