Speedplay Pedal Thread

No, but Speedplay have published them.

I haven't always needed to use heat to break the threadlock.

Looks like their site is fucked.

It's a .pdf, so the link launches a download.

No, the whole speedplay.com site was failing. Looks like it's up now.

"NOTE: Do not try to remove the needle bearing from the Zero Pedal body. The needle bearing is permanently bonded in the Zero Pedal body and cannot be removed without damaging components."

Since when did you RTFM?

True. They just don't appear to be user-serviceable (hammer) from outward appearances and I've had one of them come apart mid-ride so I'd prefer not to lose a foot during one of my 1500W Cat 6 commuter sprints :)

My experience accords with the second link I posted: the needle bearing just taps out.

Send them to me and I'll do it: "what the eye doesn't see, the heart gooch doesn't grieve over"

Are you starting a bike workshop or something?

Scilly Cycles has a nice ring to it!

I do have a number of "cash-rich, time-poor" customers, but it'll only cost you postage: you need to save your pennies for throwing down a tubeless-shaped hole.

I should really do it myself since I might have to do similar in the field but I am running low on time these days. This annoying thing "work" that seems to have slotted into my life again. I'll see how I go. Scherrit reckons I might need a soldering iron which is making me think I should just buy another set of pedals :) Stupid Speedplay.

Using a soldering iron to melt the threadlock is the easiest method, but you could stick a Torx bit in the screw and heat that with a blowtorch.

You have a blowtorch in the kitchen for crème brûlée, right?

I'd laugh at most people who claimed they might have to change their pedal bearings "in the field", but I understand that you can be quite hard on your kit...

The only cream in my place is the 20 varieties of chamois cream.

As a reformed (I left the country in question) pyromaniac, it's best I don't have access to anything as exciting as a blowtorch. I've held off buying a soldering iron for 12 or so years here I reckon I can do more. But I'm quite good at hitting things until they do what they're supposed to (no, not the missus, not all aussies are like that)

I know it sounds far fetched but if I've spent £5-10k getting to a race in forrun, then I'll finish the fucker even if I have to wait a day for some bearings and a soldering iron to arrive, so yeah, not exactly field repair but you get the idea.

I've done a few axle changes now and never heated the screw. Comes out fine.

This will be me...

I just found a box of brand new pedals in a drawer.

This means that the replacement of bearings will almost certainly never happen :)

Ok, lied, the T20 screw came out easy. No heat. Maybe i will do a bearing swap.

Second one came apart easily too. I'm going to order a bearing kit and finish this thang.

My left speedplay zero has started creaking under pressure. What's actually the pedal on the spindle? Is it going to just come off?

My Dura Ace 7810 developed play in the bearings. Thought I replace them but binned the pedals when I recognised a part of the alloy where the front of the cleat clicks most gone.

Am now annoyed how little play the new pedals have.

Any good TCR walking stories?

The Torx screw at the end.
See: http://www.speedplay.com/pubs/instructions/ZEROSystemInstructions20100713.pdf

It can come off - I've torn a Speedplay apart before.

Not from me, not this year. Others picked an interesting 25k gravel road that bypassed a nice, if a little busy tarmac option.

I'd even packed proper cleat covers this year, expecting to have to walk but I just avoided anything I couldn't ride, so some unplanned detours happened but most of the gravel was rideable.

Bugger that listing ended and now they're £20 for a pair repair. Maybe I just get the £45 10-pedal kit?

You've got speedplays now? Which ones?