That is the truth Kurt. I have one pair of SL road pedals whose cages I wor e down to thin knife edges by riding with steel nail-on cleats the 70s and early 80s. In about 85 when I got my first plastic cleats, I considered retiring this pair of SLs because one of the worn-thin cages had a vertical hairline crack all the way through the left rear cage. I kept them on the bike, however, thinking I'd dump them when the cages finally snapped off, but 20 years later they are the same unbroken pedals that refuse to die. An d smooth as ever despite almost never overhauling them. --Mitch Harris Little Rock Canyon, Utah
On 1/9/06, Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 regrease
d
> 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 CA
N
> 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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