Quote Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
"Foward On, and Back off"

Wrench goes forward to put the pedals ON, wrench goes to the back of the bike to take them OFF.

Easy, breezy!

Hee hee! I was just going to say "back off!" That's how I always remember it. And sometimes I still screw up and tighten them down more.

Drift here......Monday night we finish our cyclocross ride at an OSP and there's a woman in a karate suit (what's it called -- white pants and robe). Anyways, she's in the parking lot in her white karate suit with high heel sparkly sandals on trying to change a flat tire on her car. She has a Mercedes and it has a built-in slot for the jack and she broke the slot. She definitely needed help, it was getting dark, and we decided to help.

I won't go into all the silly things she did, like putting the jack on the other side of the car (to see if that would work), but anyways, we jump in, suggest she put the floor-mat under her jack (instead of jacking on the dirt), and help her jack it up.

So, here we are, three women solving her crisis. At one point, I decide to do more than provide moral support and start turning the jack again. She had made it look really hard, but when I did it it was easy. Of course, that's because I'm a super-hero in disguise, right? Wrong! It's because I was jacking the wrong direction and lowering the car back down to the ground. Silly me.

Oh, and she had AAA. I asked her why she didn't call and she said it was empowering to do things herself. I can do lots of things by myself, but I still call AAA.