How to Remove the Pedals of Your Mountain Bike Before Packing It

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Mike on behalf of expertvillage.com. For more information about how to pack a bike, please visit Prairie Path Cycles in Winfield, Illinois or check us out on line at www.prairiepathcycles.com. In this clip, I am going to be showing you how to take off your pedals. When you ship your bike, you definitely want to make sure your pedals are off because otherwise there won't be enough room in the box for the bike. You will need a tool for this and ideally you will want to use a pedal wrench which you can find at your local bike store but if you don't really take off your pedals that much, you don't necessarily need a tool like this so you can just use a normal wrench and for most bikes, it is going to be a 15 millimeter wrench. What you are going to want to do to take off your pedals is first note that there are different threadings on the pedals. Now on the right side which is the one that has the sprocket and the chain, it is going to be a normal thread. So you are going to want to turn it left or counter clockwise. So when you are turning it counter clockwise like that, you should notice some threads starting to appear. Once you get it loosened up, you can even do it by hand. Now the other side is a little tricky because it has reverse threading so if you see here on this pedal, you will be turning clockwise instead of counterclockwise and again once you get it loose enough, you don't really need the tool anymore, you can just do it by hand and that's how you take your pedals off. "