Removing pedals from old MTB...

[Mazz]

Get a good tool and take that crank off, you'll need to any way in the future for a new BB or re-greasing the old BB at least.

Thanks, but no thanks.
Once the new pedals are on, as long as the bike's rideable, I'll run it into the ground. Then I'll get another cheap second-hand bike. This one cost me all of £20 so it owes me nothing.👍

 

[Gunk]

This is what I use

Good idea wipping it off and putting the pedal in the vice

 

[MichaelW2]

I use foot power on the spanner.
Put gear into high ( if I recall correctly)
Place crank forward and up.
Place well fitting spanner rearward and up.
Apply brakes.
Stand carefully of spanner. Apply full bodyweight.
You can extend leverage with a bit of pipe.

Next time, grease the threads.

 

[Gunk]

Next time, grease the threads.

I don’t think the OP fitted the pedals

 

[Mazz]

I don’t think the OP fitted the pedals

Correct, I bought it secondhand and these were the fitted pedals.

 

[Gunk]

Stick some copper grease on the threads when you fit the new pedals, also people seem to have a tendency to over tighten

 

[Mazz]

Stick some copper grease on the threads when you fit the new pedals...

Not got that. Will lithium grease do?

 

[Ajax Bay]

Yes

 

[raleighnut]

I use foot power on the spanner.
Put gear into high ( if I recall correctly)
Place crank forward and up.
Place well fitting spanner rearward and up.
Apply brakes.
Stand carefully of spanner. Apply full bodyweight.
You can extend leverage with a bit of pipe.

Next time, grease the threads.

Yep my method too, all this 'block of wood' .big hammer and car jack malarkey is bollocks obviously posted by someone who doesn't really know cycles, I've come across 'people' who do not even know that pedals are threaded differently on each side and have been trying to take one off by tightening it up

 

[Mr Celine]

Yep my method too, all this 'block of wood' .big hammer and car jack malarkey is bollocks obviously posted by someone who doesn't really know cycles, I've come across 'people' who do not even know that pedals are threaded differently on each side and have been trying to take one off by tightening it up

Me too, with one additional step.
Keeping the brakes firmly applied while applying just enough weight to the spanner to keep it steady, stare first into the distance towards Switzerland then closer to the barbed wire fence stopping you getting there. You are Steve McQueen. Start that motorcycle!

Works every time.

 

[matticus]

Me too, with one additional step.
Keeping the brakes firmly applied while applying just enough weight to the spanner to keep it steady, stare first into the distance towards Switzerland then closer to the barbed wire fence stopping you getting there. You are Steve McQueen. Start that motorcycle!

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Works every time.

This is THE reason to get "proper" pedals that have spanner flats (so you don't have to pi55 about with an Allen key round the awkward/backside).
I mean, everyone wants to be Steve McQueen, don't they?

 

[raleighnut]

Me too, with one additional step.
Keeping the brakes firmly applied while applying just enough weight to the spanner to keep it steady, stare first into the distance towards Switzerland then closer to the barbed wire fence stopping you getting there. You are Steve McQueen. Start that motorcycle!

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Works every time.

Yep who knew the Germans rode Triumphs in WW2

 

[matticus]

Yep who knew the Germans rode Triumphs in WW2

The Germans lost - that's why we got to make films with British bikes in.

 

[Mazz]

After much huffing and puffing the pedals came off. Combination of pedal spanner, blowtorch, penetrating oil, mallet and brute force. Applied lithium grease and new pedals spun on. Job done 👍.

 

[Gunk]

A happy ending!