Popping Pedals

That is exactly what happens to my Nimbus 24" Muni. Mine pops at the
same place each time.

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Are your cranks tight?

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There's more to tighten (and clean) than just the connection between
pedal and crank. If you can, open up the pedals and clean out and
re-grease the bearings, etc, then tighten it back up and put the pedal
back on. It may be worth taking them to a bike shop and getting them to
do it as they'll know how tight to tighten the insides.

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Cranks should be tight, unicycle.com put 'em on for shipping... I've
only had it a week, but it didn't seem to do it today...

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I have the same problem on one of my Nimbus 26". I tightened up the
pedals and the cranks today, I hope the "pop" is gone tomorrow...
I get the "pop" on my right pedaly only, about when I go through 2:00
I have an older Nimbus 26" and a new 24" (three kids!) that have not
shown any popping yet. Is it because I am trying to learn to hop?
Do you do many drops or much hopping?

Popping in San Diego 🙁

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Loosen your pedals and then re-tighten them. I have this problem
sometimes after putting intense up and downhill pressure on the pedals,
and this seems to fix it.

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That's kind of spookey. My right pedal pops at exactly 2:00 to. I hope
there isn't some kind of defect in all the latest ones. I couldn't get
my dad to be able to fix it becasue he really needs to ride the uni to
know the problem. (and he can't ride). I find the problem comes on and
off.

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It happens a lot when I've been hopping a lot... I was practising left
foot forward hopping a lot this week, and my (competent) left foot
forward hop. Lotsa poppage after that. Yesterday I actually hit
trails, with little or no poppage that I recall.

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Well, I tried tightening the pedals, but still got popping. Since I am
riding with my three sons and we have two Nimbus 26" Munis, I swapped
right pedals, hoping to find out if it was the crank/hub or pedal...

Neither Unicycle now pops... (Although my son was riding the one with
the formerly popping pedal, I only tried it briefly)

Go figure.

Actually, thinking about it, Andrew may be on to something with his
advice to take the pedal apart and re-pack with grease, perhaps the
bearing is just a little loose?

That would make sense with two of us getting popping at 2:00, that is
about the point when one begins to put significant pressure on the
pedal, and maybe we are just "tweaking" the loose bearing?

Any advice would be appreciated!

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