pedals

morleyman200

Strange one

Im building a couple of bikes up for a friend, theyre bikes from halfords, he bought them for his 7&8 year old children.

basically when trying to fit the pedals in the crank arms, the pedal axle is too big for the crank arm hole.

I have never come across this before, i was wondering if anyone else has?

Is it just a bad manufacturing part on halfords hands?

before anyone says that they are from halfords, i know they are not exactly top dollar/quality, but they are made for small kids, so we'll skip out that comment.

thanks tom

The Rookie

You are probably trying to fit 9/16 pedals into the smaller 1/2 hole.....or are you trying to fit a left in a right so the threads won''t match?

morleyman200

I know about left and right hand thread, built many bikes

Well I just thought I was missing something, I didn't actually realise there were different size pedal axles, it was the pedals that came with the bike which won't fit.

But suppose that's halfords for you!

nicklouse

Sounds like they put pedals from an adult bike in the box. Might be nothing to do with Halfords but someone in Taiwan or China or wherever the bike was boxed.

Kids bikes often have 1/2" threads as do one piece cranks on adult bikes.