Just realized my neighbor was right about greasing pedal threads

I used to just crank pedals on dry and figured it was fine. Then my neighbor watched me swap pedals and said "you're gonna hate yourself in 6 months when those seize up." I laughed it off but last week I tried to remove my old pedals and they were completely frozen. Took me 45 minutes with a breaker bar and some PB Blaster to get them off. Now I always put a thin layer of anti-seize on the threads before installing. Has anyone else wrecked a set of pedals from skipping that step?

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ivanl761mo ago

... so my buddy Mike, he's a real stubborn dude when it comes to bike stuff. Told him for like a year to grease his pedal threads, and he'd always say "it's fine, I've never had a problem." Then last spring he tried to swap pedals on his old mountain bike and snapped the crank arm right off the spindle. Just a clean break, snap, like it was made of chalk. He had to buy a whole new crankset, which was like 80 bucks, all because he wouldn't spend 30 seconds with a tube of grease. Now he keeps a little tub of anti-seize in his tool box and puts it on everything, even his bottle cage bolts.

jason1121mo ago

My neighbor laughed at me last year when I put anti-seize on my pedal threads for the first time. He said "you look like a grandpa with that tub of grease." Then six months later he tried to remove his own pedals and spent an hour with a torch and a pipe wrench. I brought him a beer and a tube of anti-seize and said "grandpa called, he wants his grease back." Now he keeps a little tin in his garage and puts it on everything, even his car battery terminals.