pmmpete wrote:
A kayaker in the Pacific Northwest is manufacturing solid pedal arms. Check out ... It may be too late ...
I bought an el-cheapo drill press and some 6067 stock and made my own.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP ... JaRW5TYzBRHave not used them yet... so the whole thing
may go down in flames...
pmmpete wrote:
As you can see from that thread, there are a lot of Hobie owners who, like you, have broken multiple pedal arms.
I
may know the root cause of my own breakages.
There is a press fit of the pedal shaft into the crank arm.
The whole arm does not get pressed: just a reduced-diameter nubbin.
On mine, the nubbins appear to have sheared off and the torque of pedaling with the pedal shaft flopping around in the arm simply cracked the arm.... of course, that begs the question of why the other end or the arms also cracked... but I do not think it is too far a reach to speculate that there might be some imbalance of forces brought on by the pedal arm's working loose.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP ... JaRW5TYzBR
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