Waah! My new pedals are broken already!
Last fall I installed new Shimano M324 pedals on my "do everything" bike. The M324's have a platform on one side and a SPD mechanism on the other. I picked them because they don't use plastic in the bearings, and because an online review claimed they were still going strong at 15000 miles.
These pedals have now been ridden more than 100 miles but much less than 1000. The bearings are already loose. When used as platform pedals, they click. When used as SPDs, they sound like rock crushers.
The Shimano docs show that they use a cup, cone, and locknut just like wheel hubs. OK, I know how to adjust that. However, the cone and locknut are both buried inside the pedal body. Tightening the locknut requires using two concentric sockets. Shimano sells a toolset for this, but it costs as much as the pedals, and besides, Google can't find a North American source for it.
Perhaps I can MacGyver a toolset. However, getting at the locknut requires first removing the pedal's outer frame. Removing the frame requires removing the reflectors I just added!
Waah! (unhappy girl) Waah!