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OPINION
Spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 21:18
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Crank Brothers Candy X pedal48 minutes, three Dremel multi cutting discs, one Dremel grinding bit, one singed finger and several choice swear words later I have finally removed my brand new Crank Brothers cleat and moved it to the correct position.
And all because they specced bolts made out of cheese, rather than the more usual steel. Probably saving themselves 0.7p in the process. So thanks, Crank Brothers.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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ah .... happy memories of trying to get look keo cleats
off as well ......
i did everything right. everything. cleaned the back plate, greased the threads and the cleat, used a really good allen key. and it still rounded off. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
"Spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar"
... you mean grease i think
it's just preparing you for the bearings, which are made of the finest brie