Help! Pedal wont come off

try crc and a batter wrench

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Ok first make sure the pedals are on the right sides...If you cross
threaded them on the wrong sides you may never get them off.

Next make sure your turning the rightway...The rule i use is "foreward
on, back off" so if you want the pedals to come off the rotate the
wrench backwards from the front of the uni.

If all else fails then try some penetarting oil like WD-40.

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zach.ramsay said:

I own a Kris Holm 20-inch trials. It's only 3 months old, and I can't
get one of the pedals off. I've broken 2 wrenches already. Any
suggestions?

Remember that the left pedal is reverse threaded so you have to turn it
counter-clockwise to loosen. Use a real pedal wrench rather than a
generic wrench or an adjustable wrench (spanner for you UK folks).

Baring that, take it to a bike shop. They can remove it. If it's
stuck or really tight it is better to let them do it than to try it on
your own and risk stripping the threads or otherwise damaging the
crank.

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john_childs said:

Remember that the left pedal is reverse threaded so you have to turn it
counter-clockwise to loosen.

Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a long time since I've looked at a
clock with a dial), but -reverse threaded- means you have to turn it
-clockwise- to loosen.

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phlegm said:

Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a long time since I've looked at a
clock with a dial), but -reverse threaded- means you have to turn it
-clockwise- to loosen.

Oops! I got it messed up when translating muscle movements to typing
words. For normal threads it is righty-tighty lefty-loosen. For
reverse threads (left crank and left pedal) it is the opposite.

For pedals I remember the little ditty: Right is right, left is wrong.
That means the right pedal has normal (correct) threads and the left
pedal has wrong threads (reverse threads).

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i just use the ol' forward = tight. rearward = loose.

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liquid wrench

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righty tighty=lefty loosey

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you might want to buy a pedal wrench, like the ones they have at bike
shops. They help a lot.

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i dont have a pedal wrench, the closest spanner i have got is 17mm,
which is 2mm too big, so i put the spanner on it and put a pop-rivet in
the gap and it makes a bice 15mm spanner.

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a pedal wrench will help a lot. it probably happened because when the
pedal was put on it was done to tightly up. with pedals you aren't
suppose to do them up tightly, mainly because you can't get them undone
again and it can also wreck the thread.

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You could of course turn the seat round and ride the unicycle "the wrong
way" for a while. This will tend to loosen the pedals. Ride
sensitively, though. As soon as a pedal feels loose, you must stop.

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i couldnt get my pedal off a couple of months ago, got lots of people to
try to help me, but that didnt work, so in the end i took it to my
local bike shop and the guy had it off within seconds!! no charge or
anything either.

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