/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1394353
Yeah it sucks. The worst is the aluminum crank arms with a steel spindle, steel pedals going into it, and steel hardware. The most splines the spindles have, the worse it seems to get. If people don’t use anti-seize on it and the bike is neglected, it can be fun. The pinch bolts, the chainwheel bolt are always hex keys. And the main bolts that screw into the spindle will be 6mm or 8mm hex keys and kids will tighten the hell out of them instead of using some Loctite because they tend to come loose on this style of crank.

At least pic related has the steel inserts for the pedals. Earlier and cheaper models don’t have those. So basically with the aluminum threads, the first set of pedals you bolt onto those arms will likely be the last set of pedals that go on.