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Comment by hgomersall

6 months ago

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.

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hgomersall  6 months ago

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

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