Hi, found a bike in the trash, it came with these pedals, they are rusty af. I was thinking about switching to clipless, and wonder if it's cheaper to restore these and put them on my bike or just buy new ones?
by tochkeen
Hi, found a bike in the trash, it came with these pedals, they are rusty af. I was thinking about switching to clipless, and wonder if it's cheaper to restore these and put them on my bike or just buy new ones?
by tochkeen
6 Comments
Yes the are Shimano SPD and they are serviceable.
Look after the modellnumber on the body.
Depend on the modell they are cheap or expensive.
Rusty is only surface
They look fine to me, got a few sets of these for muddy CX races and they’re pretty robust. Surface rust won’t hamper their serviceability and you can’t see it when you’re riding so ride on
Yes they are! You need a special tool (Shimano TL-PD40 Pedal Axle Tool) to open it up, but they’re super cheap, like 2 euros or something. That tool allows you to open it up, at the knurled ring you can see close to the crank.
They look like either Shimano M520 or M540. Might just be worth buying new ones if they are M520 because they aren’t super expensive pedals.
It really depends what’s wrong with them though. If the are just rusty on the outside and they don’t feel rough when rotating them then it might be easy to just clean them up with something like WD-40 of some other rust remover and then add some light oil to make sure the mechanism is moving well.
As long as the bearings are not done, it pays off to service them. If you had to buy replacement axles with bearings included, it would be cheaper to get used ones in a better condition.
So get the Shimano tool, and take a close look at the bearings (and learn, how to adjust them properly).
I still have my PD-M737, the first SPD ever, bought them on the very first day my lbs got them in 1990.
Yes, they can be serviced, and what you need is the [TL-PD40 pedal axle tool from Shimano](https://bike.shimano.com/en-UK/products/service-and-upgrade-parts/pdp.P-TL-PD40.html).
If the insides can be repaired/are worth your time is another story.