about a week ago, I was riding and noticed that the crank bolt on my left Profile crank arm was gone. so I bought another one from the bike store, and put it in. today I was riding, and it’s gone aGAIN. so I’m thinking that it’s probably stripped, which really sucks.
what can I do to make it work? I really really really don’t have enough money to buy a new crank arm. and actually…, it doesn’t screw into the crank arm, does it? it screws into the axle I think. I’m not completely sure, I’m not tremendously good at this. do you think it might fall out because I didn’t use Loc-Tite on it? I know Loc-Tite helps, but I don’t think that it would fall out that often if I don’t use it…
so anyway, this has gotten me pretty freaked out because I don’t really want to ride my trials uni if the crank arm might be falling off. so any replies would be much appreciated. thanks!
EDIT decided to use this thread to ask another question…about my pedals. I have Jim C. Odyssey pedals. on the left pedal, the pins won’t stay in. it’s like they’re stripped too…you screw them in with an allen wrench, and I tried tightening them yesterday but they kept turning and turning, and weren’t getting any tighter. but they were still in. so today while I was riding, the pins were sliding around, and one of them actually fell out so I lost that one. so my question basically is…wtf? and, how do I ix it?