Canyon endurance all road arrived today, installation was going smoothly until the left pedal… The right pedal screwed in easy. But left ain’t fitting, requires a lot of force to twist in (past that initial point) and clearly starting to mess up the threads.
I’ve contacted CS but wondering if there’s any solutions/work arounds?
by PartialKing25
19 Comments
>requires a lot of force
**NEVER apply a lot of force to such things. This is how you break things.**
The left pedal screws in the other way, counter clockwise.
That crank is gone with the threads. Buy a new one. And no. Not a warranty issue. You messed that up.
Go to your LBS. You’ve destroyed the threads.
You used force. You need to keep finding the thread until it goes in smoothly. Which can be tricky. But it kinda looks like you fucked the threads by now. Might as well buy a one sided power meter cank as a replacement now 😁. Plus new pedals.
Oh my
No force doesn’t leave forceful evidence 👍
Rule #1 of working on anything mechanical – don’t force it unless you are confident you can.
Hi mate, its f’ed you are gonna need replacing both parts.
I’m so sorry for you, you must’ve been super excited to go out.
Maybe it’s the cycling gods telling you that you bought the wrong pedals for this bike
Pedals are counter threaded.
It looks to me like it could be the right side thread pedal, that you tried to thread into the reverse threaded, left side crank? If that’s the case, you have the answer why the crank arm is now messed up.
You are also supposed to use the Assembly Grease.
Try chasing threads from the other side, but most likely this crank is done.
People actually use those pedals??
I had the same issue with left pedal. Then I tried turning the other direction than I was trying to force in initially and it worked.
Felt so dumb for not trying it earlier.
Maybe you should’t order from a direct sale bike brand if you don’t know how to install pedals on a bike. That said, i disagree with people telling you to take it to your lbs. Just buy a tap kit and you can tap the threads back to new.
That crank is 100% fucked now.
LBS I did similar on my first bike but it wasn’t quite as bad
Hi. I strongly recommend reading about my experience with Canyon: https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/s/mRW10uy6MX