Hey, what's up, Motivators? Taren here.
If you're thinking about taking the pedals
off of your road bike, switching up to some different pedals,
maybe you have to do a little bit of mechanical work on your pedals,
and you don't have the special tools required to change those pedals.
Going to go through two different types of road bike pedals that you might have
on your bike, how to remove them without any special tools,
and how to do it properly so you don't end up with problems down the road.
Stick around for it.
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I've got a Canyon Ultimate road bike here
and then a Canyon Grail gravel bike over there.
I've got a couple of different pedals, but basically when you get any sort
of bike, you're going to get flat pedals like this.
They're going to come alongside the bike.
This isn't ideal.
If you want to be safe, if you want to ride fairly hard, like,
with any sort of purpose, you want to do any sort of structure.
Why these aren't great is because your
foot can slip off, they're not aerodynamic.
Being clipped into a bike is one
of the best things that you can do to develop your bike handling.
It might feel a little bit odd at the start, but you only have three
points of contact on a bike on your butt, on your hands, and on the feet.
And the more solid you can make that connection with the bike,
the safer you're going to be and the more power you're going to actually transfer
from the energy that you're putting out into going forward.
So we aren't going to use these.
Like I literally just unwrapped them right
now and they've been sitting in storage since I got the bike.
But that gets us into how do we actually start changing from one pedal to another?
And if you're new to road biking.
You'Re not going to have all the tools required to do so.
If you search for how to change your road bike pedals, one of the first things
that's going to pop up is that you need a pedal wrench.
And this is starting to get to be a little bit intimidating for a lot of people
because it's not just, well, I have to buy a bike now I have to buy a whole.
Bunch of tools to work on that bike.
And a lot of bike shop people will say, well, you have to have a pedal wrench.
Now I have this wrench here that would be
fit for some pedals, but frankly, even I don't use this.
Twelve years after getting my very first
bike, we're going to show you how you don't need that pedal wrench.
And with something as simple as a common wrench that most people will have,
or an Allen key, you are going to be able to switch over from one set of pedals
to another set of pedals, regardless of what type of pedals you've got.
All right, so what you're going to have is
one of two different scenarios that's going to determine whether you're using
just a regular wrench or you're using an Allen wrench.
So what we have here is my Canyon ultimate road bike with shimano dura ace pedals.
And the pedals are what you would typically associate with needing a pedal
wrench because there's just this little amount of space here in between the axle
of the pedal and the crank arm of the bike.
So there's just a tiny little 8th of an inch with just a little bit of flat.
And you don't want to use a pair of pliers
or adjustable crescent wrench to try to clamp down on that.
Any sort of wrench isn't going to have enough room to bite into that.
So this is where you'll be thinking,
am I able to actually use something that I have in my toolkit?
Well, if we spin it around
and look at the backside of the other set of pedals, what you'll see is that inside
the axle here of the pedal, you can actually fit an Allen key in there.
So to take off these pedals when they're
set up like that, you just put in an Allen key and you'll have to give it a little
bit of a whack because they get tight as you pedal them.
And then you can very easily take that out without requiring a pedal wrench.
So that's going to be one type.
Of pedal that you might be able to remove
with just something as simple as an Allen wrench.
Now the other type of pedals that you might have are these.
These are the Garmin Rally gravel bike pedals on my Canyon Grail gravel bike.
And if you look on the inside of the pedal
where we would have used the Allen key to take out these pedals,
it's actually filled in so you wouldn't be able to use that same technique.
If we go around and show you these petals
here, there's a much bigger area in between the crank arm and the shaft
of these pedals to actually fit something that is standard.
So what you can use with this is, because there's such a big area,
you can just use a standard crescent wrench for this and you don't
actually need a pedal wrench, any sort of specialized tools
for that because you're just going to be able to use a crescent wrench for that.
Now, one little tip that will add in and you can use this tip,
whether you are using a crescent wrench or an Allen wrench to do this,
is you're going to often have petals that are very tight.
So let's just tighten this up and I'll show you what I mean.
Okay, so let's say you get a pedal
and you're working it and you're like, it's not moving, it's not moving.
You can't get it.
One thing that you can do to actually
break that seal, I'm going to tell you how to avoid that from fusing in a bit.
But if it's fused and it doesn't want to break and the pedal doesn't want
to come off, instead of starting the crest wrench over here in the middle of nowhere,
set it up really close to the actual crankar like this.
And what it's going to allow you to do is
grab it and by using the leverage of the crank arm, that's going to allow
you to get a little bit of leverage, squeeze the crescent wrench into the crank
arm, and that's going to help break that fuse between the pedal and the crank arm.
Let's talk about how to put the pedal back
on properly to make sure that doesn't happen in the first place.
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So I've put some gloves on to show you this.
And it might not be a terrible idea to have some gloves around as you're
working on bike because let's face it, bike is a little bit greasy all around.
But what a lot of new cyclists do
with their pedals when they put them on is they'll just put them on, tighten them up,
and then in the course of turning the pedals, they'll tighten up a lot
and the pedal axle might fuse to the edge of the crank arm.
To prevent that from happening, there's two things that you should do.
Number one, there's a pedal washer that will come with most pedals.
And if you lose this, go to a local bike shop, get this replaced.
They'll typically give it to you because they'll have them lying around.
It's about an 8th of an inch thick and it
just goes on top of the axle of the pedal and it goes in between the edge
of the axle of the pedal and the edge of the crank arm to make sure that you've
got a little bit of play that nothing's fusing.
The second thing that you'll want to do is get some grease.
And this is like eight years old.
I haven't even made a dent in this.
It's going to cost you maybe five or $7
to get this little bit of grease, but every time you put pedal back on,
get yourself about a fingernail's worth of grease and put it on the pedal axle
before you actually put that pedal back on.
That grease and the washer is going
to prevent it from fusing in and causing an issue where you're going to be stuck
and really fighting to get pedals off in the future.
This is a big thing.
I've heard of people having to drop off
their bike and spending $500 in shop time for bike shops just to get pedals off.
Because we sweat on our bikes.
And when we have things that might fuse
together and sweat is getting in and corroding it might all rust together.
And you're going to have a hell of a time
actually getting it apart if you don't use that grease and the washer.
So now you know how to take off both types of pedals without any special tools.
You know how to put pedals back on without causing any sort of future problems,
and fusing with the pedals any rusting and corrosion.
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And now that you've got a slick set
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