Re: [CR]Why do rider's left pedal bearings tend to knacker ?

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:49:32 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: Don Wilson <dcwilson3@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Why do rider's left pedal bearings tend to knacker ?
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As I have got well used to the flip/insert procedure for Campagnolo SL pedals that's all I've used for the last 25 years or so on and off road. I can't wear them out, left or right side. Heck the ones on my OT bike I posted a link to a photo of a couple days back haven't even been regreased or adjusted since the '80s when I took them off one of my road bikes becaus e they looked thrashed and put them on my dirt bike where it didn't matter *L * and yet they still spin perfectly... I'm suitably impressed if anyone CAN wear the bearings out! Maybe the secret is to never maintain them...

As for the L/R thing, I've no idea.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA

On 1/9/06, Don Wilson <dcwilson3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> While looking to scavenge pedals from my junk fleet, I
> noticed that most of my junkers had one with good
> pedal bearings and one with worn pedal bearings. The
> pedal with the worn bearings tended to be on the
> rider's left side. As my junk fleet comes from thrift
> stores, and includes English, French and Italian
> marques, and both high and low quality bikes, I
> consider this a randomized sample with an N of 14. :-)
> No, I have not actually counted up how many have bum
> left pedal bearings, but it seems anecdotally
> significant. :-) Has anyone else noticed the
> phenomenon of worn pedal bearings tending to be on the
> rider's left pedal? If the phenomenon were not
> attributable to random chance, why would this
> phenomenon tend to occur?

>

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