Grease

[kn0bby8]

Not sure if "Gear Talk" is were this belongs but...What kind of grease or loobe can I use for pedals. I swap my clipless pedals with platforms when I am gonna use my bike for errands. I am sure I will get more life out of my cranks and the pedals them selves if I can loobe the spindles and cranks.

[allencb]

Automotive anti-seize when connecting to different metals together, regular grease otherwise.

And by regular grease, I mean good ol' green boat wheel bearing grease. A tub should last years (especially now that you don't need to rebuild bottom brackets, wheel bearings, etc).

Chris

[CRAIG2]

What Chris said, or pick up a tube of Pedro's Syn Grease next time you're at Performance. Works for me.

[akern2]

Automotive stuff is nice. And it's got a great copper color too.

Otherwise, I've been using Park Tool's Polylube. Works great and you can get handy little squirters for them. Performance see it.

[skillet999]

works well for me (but I am sure there's something wrong with that.....)

[rizetech]

park poly-lube. no doubt.:thumbsup:

[ChrisJ]

I like wheel bearing grease. Works for me and its cheap.:thumbsup:

[PunkRock]

There are zero comments or pictures of Olivia Newton-John in this thread. I'm bummed. :(

[BottomBraket]

MORE importantly, clean the dirt out of the pedal threads AND the crank threads before pedal installation. I just use an old tooth brush.

Repetitious pedal swapping with dirty thread is rough and tough on your crank threads. If it “sounds” gritty when installing your pedals, you’re wearing out your crank threads.