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		hgomersall 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Take the pedals off the bike It's actually to stop it being screwed in so tightly you can't remove it. The threads are such that in normal usage the pedals turn the same way you'd unscrew them.

hgomersall 11 months ago [–]

Apparently it's actually an effect of the thread precessing into the hole. Interesting.

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