Haven’t personally used it but the consensus was Orange Seal or perhaps Stans Race IIRC
Mander: Get ahold of some Wera Hex+ allens? Remove pedal body from axle, grind flats onto it and remove with spanner? Gentle heating of crank end with soft flame? (not carbon I hope!)
i like orange sealant
if it’s a gas stove like a camping stove don’t try to use it upside down
learned that one the hard way
take pedal apart. Clamp spindle in vise. Use the crank arm as a lever. Assuming by this point that you’re mad enough to not care about destroying the pedal.
I can’t help with the heat treatment.
Bingo
Disassemble and destroy
So first,I always remember pedals rotate towards front of bike to install, towards back of bike to remove.
Second, yeah heating the crank arm can definitely help if it’s really stuck.
Use a nice new QUALITY Allen wrench. ( I really like the Pedro’s Allen wrenches, ive used them on bikes and cars and mistreated them and they’ve never rounded out twisted or bent) There’s lots of pointy stuff to cut yourself on when a stuck pedal does break free so be careful. This is when it can be helpful to have a breaker bar to keep digits safe. Pblaster couldn’t hurt either.
Sometimes pedal spindles crack across the Allen key hole and it makes them impossible to take off by normal means, the allen wrench expands them like a wedge
This is a very useful mnemonic, I always have to think really hard every time I take pedals off because it’s something I only do maybe once a year. And then when they don’t come off immediately I get paranoid that I’m turning the wrong way.
Also the last pedals I took off I cranked so hard that the shitty allen wrench got stuck and I had an embarrassing trip to the bike shop.
Pedal fun fact, the use of antihand threading on non drive side was invented by the Wright brothers in their Dayton bikeshop.
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the last time i installed pedals i grabbed my trusty torque wrench and set it to proper spec. except it doesn’t torque in the “reverse” direction, so all i did was muscle it in there super super tight. that was a pain to get out.
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Did you know that Dayton was named for Capt. Jonathon Dayton? He was the youngest signee of the constitution. He never actually visited the Miami valley basin and was at one point arrested for treason. But he was never charged.
I just went tubeless on my newish bike, and am going in the backcountry next week. What do I need to know? (like if something goes wrong?)
it never hurts to carry a berthoud bag full of spare tubes.
(speaking of which, who has that whole quote?)
I’d bring one spare tube, one of them rubber worm kits and maybe a little bottle of sealant.
I’ve been riding a crabon XC hardtail on pavement recently, finding it supringinsly zippy. It’s a stiff bike, but the seat stays are designed to flex. Based on the Heine plane stuff I used to read, I think it’s planing. Tires are also pretty quick for dirt tires, Maxxis Ikon 3c.
another dq. what’s a rubber worm kit?
I guess one of these. I’ve never used one but have been thinking of getting one.
Maybe frank has? @frank_doktor
I’ve always wondered if the Stop and Go tire plugger would work on bicycle tires. Probably a bit heavy duty for such applications but man it worked great on my motorcycle tire.
