I decided to change the pedals on my Kalkhoff Pro Connect Alfine 8G as the ones that come with it have little to no grip when things get greasy and/or wet.
The right hand pedal came straight off with an allen key. The left however nearly bent the allen key trying to get it off (i'm fairy strong in those situations but it's solid). I took it to a bike place I use in Bristol who said he'd have to take the crank arm off and put it in a vice (he tried it with a much larger allen key than I tried with).
I turned up later in the day and he said he'd been unable to get it off. He showed me that he had set his torque wrench up to 80-90nm odd and it wouldn't budge. He said the most likely reason for this is that when the bike was made, they hadn't greased the pedal when it was fitted which points towards the original assembling stage of the bikes life before sale.
I was therefore considering going down to 50 cycles in Bristol to discuss this with them but I didn't want to bother them if the liability lies elsewhere. It's still under warranty FWIW. What do you guys think?
The right hand pedal came straight off with an allen key. The left however nearly bent the allen key trying to get it off (i'm fairy strong in those situations but it's solid). I took it to a bike place I use in Bristol who said he'd have to take the crank arm off and put it in a vice (he tried it with a much larger allen key than I tried with).
I turned up later in the day and he said he'd been unable to get it off. He showed me that he had set his torque wrench up to 80-90nm odd and it wouldn't budge. He said the most likely reason for this is that when the bike was made, they hadn't greased the pedal when it was fitted which points towards the original assembling stage of the bikes life before sale.
I was therefore considering going down to 50 cycles in Bristol to discuss this with them but I didn't want to bother them if the liability lies elsewhere. It's still under warranty FWIW. What do you guys think?