devon warner wrote:
> hi guys,
> i have a Sugino Mighty Tour crank set with Kyokuto quill pedals both bought new in january of 1981. i have NEVER ever removed those pedals (had them both continuously on a bike ever since, in rain or shine.) is it safe to take them off? i have been told if i do it will strip out the threads on my crank set since after all this time we can expect some sort of chemical welding between the steel and aluminum. no, i don't want to ruin the crank set, but i do want to move the pedals to another bike, if possible. Any advice about how i might safely do that?
They should unthread fine. I can't think of a case where galvanic corrosion (the aluminum / steel problem) has caused a threaded-on bicycle component to withstand appropriately applied torque, in my personal experience. OK well maybe a freewheel or two, but I think that was a mechanical problem, not a corrosion problem.
Morgan Fletcher
Oakland, CA