The Great Parts Switching Cascade
So the chrome Super Le Tour had decent pedals, but the toe-clip was a little short it seemed to me. I had a pair of MKS city pedals with nice wire toe clips that I bought from Compass Bicycles many years ago, so I went to switch the pedals out. The drive side was a little tight, but the pedal came out fine. The non drive side was almost impossible to remove. I kept thinking that I should just leave it alone, but once I know something is not right, I try to fix it, unless it is completely out of the range of my influence, like politics. I had to press down so hard on the pedal wrench, the palm of my hand was bruised for days. The pedal did finally come out, but it took most of the threads in the crank arm with it. Oddly enough, there were still enough threads in that crank that I could thread the MKS pedal on, and it stayed for a ride around the block, but I knew I should not trust it, and the kind folks on the Bike Forum backed up that feeling. So, I was sh...
