Okay. As mentioned in my bike packing for air travel video. I wanted to do a whole
video on just removing pedals. This may be a basic one for quite a few people
but this has saved me a ton of time and also a ton of sore wrists. I'll show you
why in a minute. So traveling with the bike. Obviously
you're going to have to remove the pedal so it fits in a bike bag. Changing your pedals, if
you get a new set of pedals, obviously. But also stacking your bike in the car.
If you've got to throw your bike in the car... we've had to stack five
or six bikes on top of each other. Pedals get in the way, they're quite awkward. So
if you can take the pedals off, bikes sit a lot flatter. Okay so the tools you'll
need is either a 15mm spanner/wrench or an 8mm hex wrench or an allen key, a
large allen key. I've actually taken the end off this one a bit of a hack tool
tip for the tools usually they come with just that exposed. I take that end off.
Because once you actually loosen the pedal it's easier to spin it that way
out I'll show you that in a second. Ok, as mentioned in my other video again the
first thing you do is take your pedals off your bike before you do anything and
here's why. I'll run you through the technique. Big ring. Grab a handful of
brake there, put your rear brake on so bike doesn't move. Move the pedal around. Get your
front wheel out of the way. Pedal wrench in... foot on.... pull back! Simple as that!
That pedal is now loose and your pedal comes off.
As easy as that. That's why I've removed that end. Okay I'll show you on the other side as well.
Pedal around. Handful the front brake so the bike doesn't go anywhere. Tool in
place. Foot on pedal. It's simply a press down with the foot, pull up with
the hand, simple as that. And then with the other side.... pedal off straight away.
And as you can see there's no width there in the bike there so these stack nicely
that's why we take the pebbles off. Front wheel out of the way. Foot on, pull up,
that will loosen it enough for you to then put the other tool in. Spinning out.
Pedal comes straight off. Job done. Now as a general maintenance thing as
well I like to clean the thread to keep the grit out of it. And also a little bit
of grease on the thread so it doesn't get stuck when you put them back on. It
makes getting them on or off nice and easy. So a little bit of grease on the
thread. Like that. Once you've greased them putting them back on is just a
reverse. I use the other end. So tool through there. Tool in place and spinning
back the other way. Now doing it this way you won't cross
thread either because it's not a lot of pressure being put on. It's just simply
the opposite direction. You're in.. and just pedals don't need to be tightened a
lot. It's just a in and just a little bit of it push down and you're done.
Okay thanks to Von for holding the camera for this one today but she's also
a fan of this method of removing pedals. Absolutely! I have actually called Shane
a couple of times when I've been up traveling last year of Brisbane. I gave
him a few calls to say "I can't get my pedals on or off my bike I'm almost in
tears trying with a little multi-tool" Yeah.. no.. this is the way to go on the
I pack the the tool inside my shoe and that goes inside my bike bag as
well so it's all in there. I put my pedals inside my other shoe. It's all
packed in ready to go at the other end. And last tip... last tip. Glad bags. I love
these things they hold everything. They hold
my fruit cake and also pedals so you don't lose them so once your pedals are
off. They can't be greasy because we have put
grease on them. Pedals in a bag not an issue. "Not in the same bag"... Not in the same bag.
Not in the same bag is my fruit cake don't put your pedals in the same bag as your
fruit cake. Hot Tip. Hot Tip. Okay. We're outta her? Yeah let's go to Sydney.
Hey Von, see this pedal? "Yeah, I didn't want to bang my head on the way thorough"