Any question answered...

Its fine if you are always working with pedals you have fitted yourself on well kept bikes. But if you have ratty old beater magpie syndrome like me and find yourself playing with various heaps of boot sale spoils every other weekend, you do come into seized pedals (and stems) pretty often.

For normal purposes, a pedal spanner is not even necessary. A short basic multipurpose spanner is fine. But at other times, I have absolutely needed to do shit like this;

And even then, it had a fair bit of resistance before it broke loose.

Loving this.

I tried to get a stuck free wheel off with a similar thing using a old handle from a set of pruning secateurs a few months ago. Bent the fuck out of it with no result; although that isn't surprising as when I took it in to my LBS it ripped the vice of their bench.

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