Pedals

[MonsterEnergy]

Give the spanner a sharp bash with a mallet or large piece of wood.

okay...thanks for your help.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

To make it easy to remove the pedals: raise the pedal that you are working on until the crank arm is horizontal and the pedal is as far to the front of the bike as it can be. Then put your pedal spanner on so that the handle is pointing to the back of the bike. Now stand next to your bike, apply the brakes firmly and use your foot on the end of the spanner handle to push the spanner downwards.

 

[MonsterEnergy]

To make it easy to remove the pedals: raise the pedal that you are working on until the crank arm is horizontal and the pedal is as far to the front of the bike as it can be. Then put your pedal spanner on so that the handle is pointing to the back of the bike. Now stand next to your bike, apply the brakes firmly and use your foot on the end of the spanner handle to push the spanner downwards.

thanks....that sounds like it should work

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When fitting new pedals grease the threads first. It’ll making removing them easier in the future.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

thanks....that sounds like it should work

It does. You can exert a lot more force with your foot - just make sure that your leg is far enough back not to catch the pedal if the spanner slips off. (Which it won't if you have a quality pedal spanner)

 

[Reynard]

Marinating overnight with a few good squirts of WD40 prior to pedal removal makes things a bit less difficult. Unless they're right royally stuck. Then you have two options. One is a length of pipe over the handle of the spanner to give you extra leverage, and two, if that fails to budge them, your LBS should have the tools and nous to loosen stuck pedals.

+1 for applying a generous slathering of grease on the spindle threads prior to reassembly.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Assuming the crank arm is alloy and the pedal spindle is steel you could heat a big pan of water and immerse pedal and end of the crank arm. Alloy expands more quickly than steel and may make it easier to take off. This has worked for me in the past

Mind you, I then found that the pedal had been cross threaded, so fingers crossed that this is not the case for you.