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The photo was from a site that no longer seems to be up. The pedal on the right, measuring at 15.7mm is the same size that the pedal on my indoor spin bike uses and I want to use standard 9/16 threaded pedals instead.

Has anyone come across this size??? Do adapters exist to step up standard 9/16 to 15.7mm?

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[-] leds@feddit.dk 4 points 6 months ago

The pedal on the right seems to have some sort of adapter on it? If you can't find anything bike specific you can get general purpose coils (helicoil i think? ) for for bolting stuff in oversized threads , no idea if that will hold up probably not great if you need to remove them often.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

If you can’t find anything bike specific you can get general purpose coils (helicoil i think? ) for for bolting stuff in oversized threads , no idea if that will hold up probably not great if you need to remove them often.

I didn't know if that might work, but thanks for the suggestion. I don't plan to really take the next set of pedals off, unless for servicing, so this might be an option. Never used them before, but know of them.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think the right pedal has a Unior thread adapter on it. These are used to repair a stripped crank arm. When the 9/16"x20 threads strip out you ream the hole and re-tap it with a 5/8"x24 thread, then and use the adapter to make the pedals fit.

https://uniorusa.com/products/pedal-thread-inserts-10-pieces-set-right-58x24

https://uniorusa.com/products/crank-saver

[-] Doofytoe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

What this guy said

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Very interesting! Now that I see it, I can't unsee it! That's pretty interesting, but I think finding a solution is either going to be too expensive or just not worth the effort. Maybe I'll see if I can just remove the crank arms and put on a standard pair!

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, this might not be easy to find a solution for. The larger thread size doesn't seem to be a standard bike pedal thread, so finding a specific adapter is probably not possible.

Another solution might be to use some kind of threaded inserts in the cranks (this would probably require drilling the cranks out for a larger thread). But the standard pedal thread of 9/16-20 is not widely used anywhere else, so finding the inserts (let alone a left-handed ones is probably next to impossible.

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