Sprucing up Campy Record Profit pedals?

Okay, okay, I give up!

I'm sure you can keep up the carnage longer than I can keep whining.

By the way, how long would it be until you got to the crash that took
out Verbruggen and company a few days ago? It took until the third or
fourth replay until I saw Rik go over the railing up front. U-G-L-Y!

wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:27:17 -0700, Colin Campbell
wrote:


Colin Campbell wrote:

I have about four years and probably over 35,000 km on these pedals.
The left one shows a few marks, but the right pedal has a lot of
blemishes. I've had the right pedal rebuilt, and both are working
just fine.

Is it reasonable to do anything to these pedals to improve their
looks, and, if so, what is the technique - painting, polishing, or ??

Well, that thread certainly got hijacked!


Dear Colin,

Well, yes . . .

But your original topic didn't really put up much of a struggle
against the ruthless highwaymen of RBT.

So I'll amplify my answer:

No, it's probably not reasonable to worry about improving the looks of
4-year old pedals that have been largely hidden by your shoes for
22,000 miles.

And I still hope that someone will be along soon to explain how you
could best refinish and repaint the blemishes.

If it's any comfort, no one showed any interest in the fascinating
topic of theatrical footwear. They just snapped at the pictures of a
bicycle crash like bullfrogs lunging at bits of red flannel.

In fact, they'll probably enjoy this one, too:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006...hneider-25.jpg

There we see rat-trap pedals shown at eye-level or above, unobscured
by any shoes. It's unlikely that the rider was worried about whether
anyone noticed the blemishes on his faithful pedals.

"My feet ARE big! It's the movies that got small!"

Cheers,

Herschel Schmoeckel Krustofsky

One track crash I witnessed, that I wish I had a picture of occurred at
the 7-11 Olympic Velodrome in LA during a women's race. Janie Eickhoff,
of all people, touched a wheel, and about four riders went down on the
backstretch. One of the downed riders was Amanda Healey. She was
walking across the infield with her bike, wearing a mostly white
uniform. You could see at least three tire tracks across her legs and
torso, but she was apparently not injured. She looked up, and realized
that the other racers were riding around the track, waiting for the race
to resume. She quickly checked her wheels, saw they weren't damaged,
and was about to remount, when the race was stopped because another
woman was injured badly enough to need the ambulance to come in for her.

What a gutsy bunch bike racers are!

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:29:45 -0700, Colin Campbell
wrote:

Okay, okay, I give up!

I'm sure you can keep up the carnage longer than I can keep whining.

By the way, how long would it be until you got to the crash that took
out Verbruggen and company a few days ago? It took until the third or
fourth replay until I saw Rik go over the railing up front. U-G-L-Y!

Dear Colin,

Surely you don't expect me to stoop to puns like car-nage about this
pictu

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/20.../qinghai066/17
or http://tinyurl.com/qyoa8

Given your interest in pedal cosmetics, I'm not surprised that you
were reviewing so much foot-age of Verbruggen's accident.

But at least we're not rail-ing at each other.

You could relax by visiting this thread, where there's no wine-ing:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...226e93248b1d1f

Cheers,

Carl Fogel