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I hit a pothole nice and hard the other day and my pedal/cranks ended up looking like this. Now I can't get the pedal back into the crank further than the second image without a lot of force and it's going in at an angle. I guess I've knackered the threads? What are my options for sorting this out? Get someone mechanically competent to drill a slightly larger diameter hole in the crank arm and install an M8 helicoil?
I have another (nicer) crankset sitting in my parts bin that was going to go on when the weather was nicer but it seems a waste to write these off after less than a year's use.
Edit: photos are in reverse order. The photo featuring my feet is immediately after the pothole incident, the photo in the kitchen is me trying to sort it out.