I found VP's bearings to be disposable, wearing out on my every 14-60 days. MKS cone pedals: 6 months. MKS sealed bearing pedals: several pair still going several years in. Keep in mind, I'm an ogre.
With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 8:09:01 PM UTC-6, spencer robinson wrote: > > Thank you Paul, that confirms what I suspected > > On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 9:23:01 PM UTC-4 Paul Clifton wrote: > >> Last time I tried to deal with this, the bike shop told me to pull them >> apart and figure out what bearing I needed and they'd order it from wheels >> manufacturing. >> >> I didn't have the tool to take the bearings out of the 001 (a 4 or 5 mm >> punch if I recall), and the rebuild kit cost as much as a new pair of VP >> Vice pedals, so now I just have a clicky pedal that I use sometimes for >> temporary stuff. >> >> That was several years ago. I searched again a couple years ago and >> couldn't find the kits at all anymore. Kinda turned me off of VP even >> though I do really like their pedals. >> >> Paul in AR >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 9:33:08 AM UTC-5, spencer robinson wrote: >>> >>> My older pair of VP “ThinGripsters brought me home with an annoying >>> click the other day. I have determined that it is the drive side pedal as >>> the noise is gone when I switch to a fairly new pair of Clem pedals. My >>> question to the group is, does anyone know where I can find a rebuild kit? >>> I don’t see anything at Rivendell or even Amazon. >>> Then I was thinking, maybe just buy a new pair of Clems..might be >>> cheaper.. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8a15ee1f-84c2-4894-b927-478d593fb299o%40googlegroups.com.
