Kyokuto Pedals

[Bondsy]

Does anyone know anything about Kyokuto pedals. I am currently restoring a 1967 Mercian and it has some pretty rough Kyokuto Sprint pedals, and not sure if they are worth the effort to sort out. However doing some looking on the net I can not find any ref to the sprint pedals. Everything is about the top run and pro vic versions so I am wondering if I should keep them. If anyone has got any info it would be greatly received.

 

[midlife]

Kyokuto were my go to pedal in the mid 70's the Pro Ace was campagnolo quality but a fraction of the price. Black alloy cages too

Even the budget series, top run, were OK. Sprint doesn't ring a bell. Any pics?

If all else fails use some MKS Sylvan, they have looked the same for the last 45 years lol

 

[Bondsy]

Kyokuto were my go to pedal in the mid 70's the Pro Ace was campagnolo quality but a fraction of the price. Black alloy cages too

Even the budget series, top run, were OK. Sprint doesn't ring a bell. Any pics?

If all else fails use some MKS Sylvan, they have looked the same for the last 45 years lol

Here are some pics midlife

 

[midlife]

Look similar / identical to top run but a pista version.

Like top run they would be OK at the price point, better than the cheap loyotards BITD lol. f they are rough then might be easier to buy replacements.

 

[biggs682]

They should clean up ok

 

[Bondsy]

@biggs682 they are going to need a little more than a clean up. Seized up and not rotating going need striping and probably new bearings.

 

[biggs682]

@biggs682 they are going to need a little more than a clean up. Seized up and not rotating going need striping and probably new bearings.

That's easy enough

 

[Drago]

Strip, clean, soak in oxalic acid, polish, new grease, new bearings, reassemble, smile smugly.

 

[Hover Fly]

Scrap, buy decent new MKS.

 

[Hover Fly]

Back in the late ‘70s there was a run of correspondence in the CTC comic about creaking and clicking pedals, turned out that the worst offenders were those with pressed together barrels like that, final advice was ”get a pair of millionaire’s pedals”, i.e. one piece dural bodies.

 

[Bondsy]

Going to keep them and as suggested strip clean and re-grease. Think they are original to the bike so make sense to use them.
Anyone got any info where you can get universal mod 61 brake lever hoods from?

 

[biggs682]

Dia Compe do some fairly universal hoods

Or try using some heat shrink

 

[Gunk]

Dia Compe do some fairly universal hoods

Or try using some heat shrink

The Dia Compe hoods fit Weinmann levers perfectly

 

[Bondsy]

Sorted the pedals and fitted to the now completed Mercian.

 

[midlife]

Very nice . Love the chromed sloping fork crown