Hello I'm new and have a question about Leven pedals

[buffbeardynerd]

Hello!

I bought myself a very lovely Chimaera and I like it very much (please wave if you see a blue Chim pottering around Derby!) but my very tiny wife has some issues reaching the pedals even with a booster cushion and the seats as forward as they can go.

After a phonecall with the very helpful man at James Agger I've learnt that Leven used to make pedals with a longer thread and wondered if anyone knew where I could get them since they closed down a while ago.

Any other suggestions welcome!

Cheers

[QBee]

buffbeardynerd said:

Hello!

I bought myself a very lovely Chimaera and I like it very much (please wave if you see a blue Chim pottering around Derby!) but my very tiny wife has some issues reaching the pedals even with a booster cushion and the seats as forward as they can go.

After a phonecall with the very helpful man at James Agger I've learnt that Leven used to make pedals with a longer thread and wondered if anyone knew where I could get them since they closed down a while ago.

Any other suggestions welcome!

Cheers

Contact Peter Essling.
He makes pedals for Chim/Griff. Excellent quality, in a choice of widths - the narrow ones are fine, by the way.
I have little doubt he can make you some longer threaded ones.
If you cannot find him by searching on here, go onto the Chimaera Owners and Enthusiasts group on Faceache.

I assume you have wound the standard ones out as far as they will go?

[QBee]

He is pmeesling on here - find a post of his (any one will do) using the search (blue bar, right hand side).
Click on his name and it will bring up his profile.
"Email me" is over on the right.
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[buffbeardynerd]

Lovely! thanks for the tip! Yep as far as they go and the seat as close as it will (she's only a very tiny wife )

Edited by buffbeardynerd on Thursday 27th June 12:31

[Steve_D]

How tall are you?
If not very, then you would probably both benefit from the seat being a little higher. In which case you could add spacers and at the same time move the seat runners forward.

Steve

[buffbeardynerd]

I'm a shade under 6ft and wife is 4ft9 so need to allow for a decent amount of wiggle between the two positions. I'm hoping pedals means I can move the seat back as I end up with it quite far forward too at the moment so an inch or so on the pedal distance I'm hoping is sufficient.

[666 SVT]

Pedal spacing is really annoying on mine, Always catch my foot under the brake pedal when coming off the accelerator pedal.

[citizen smith]

Cheap solution would be to buy some STUDDING (7/16 UNF or M12) and cut it to the length that you require, cut off the old studding and get a good welder to weld on the replacement studding to the pedal. Job done.

[Tonymg]

any links or website so we can buy some pedals

[pmessling]

Please send me a message and I can give you details on pedals.

[buffbeardynerd]

Message sent - apologies for the late reply, been on my holidays!