Removing pedals - which way round?

[ajevans]

I'm not really a beginner, but my brain refuses to remember how to do this!?

Is there any easy way to remember?

I vaguely remember something like - you move the crank arm (on the side you're facing) so that it's pointing towards the front wheel - place the spanner pointing the opposite way and push down. Is this right?

 

[bonj2]

right is right, left is wrong.

 

[tyred]

The pedal on the left has a left hand thread and therefore unscrews clockwise.

The pedal on the right has a right hand thread and therefore unscrews anti-clockwise.

 

[Landslide]

I vaguely remember something like - you move the crank arm (on the side you're facing) so that it's pointing towards the front wheel - place the spanner pointing the opposite way and push down. Is this right?

Yup, that'll work.

 

[Chris James]

Yes, there is avery easy way to remember, but it might not help you.

The left pedal has a left hand thread and the right one has a right hand thread. If you have ever done any engineering then that is all you need to know.

Everything you would normally come across for DIY etc has a right hand thread, so the left pedal is turned the opposite way to the way you would screw a domestic screw.

 

[nilling]

right is right, left is wrong.

Genius!!!

 

[ChrisKH]

The pedal on the left has a left hand thread and therefore unscrews anti-clockwise.

The pedal on the right has a right hand thread and therefore unscrews clockwise.

Isn't that the wrong way round? LH pedal unscrews clockwise and RH pedal unscrews anti-clockwise. Facing the bike from the back. Correct if facing the bike from the front, but then you don't do that unless you're a circus performer. Or showing off.

I could be wrong as I usually look it up in a book first.

 

[Landslide]

ChrisKH is correct (assuming one is looking at the bike from the side in such a manner that the pedal is nearer to the mechanic than the crank is to the mechanic).

 

[ajevans]

Thanks guys - I think it's slowly sinking in!

 

[jack the lad]

To put pedals on the spanner points to the front of the bike and push down. To take them off the spanner points to the back of the bike.

 

[skwerl]

right is right, left is wrong.

but the complete opposite for bottom brackets. just to be confusing

 

[ajevans]

but the complete opposite for bottom brackets. just to be confusing

Surely that's only the case for English thread?

 

[PpPete]

To put pedals on the spanner .....

I thought the OP wanted to put pedals on his bike, not on his spanner ?

 

[PpPete]

Surely that's only the case for English thread?

Correct.

 

[HLaB]

Somebody on the old c+ forum said, 'in to the frame to loosen' and that works for me.