How to Put a Leather Strap Through a Pedal

Many older bicycles have flat pedals with a systems of straps and toe clips. These clips and straps work to keep your foot secured on the pedal, giving an efficient method of power transfer to the chain and drive train. If you wish to add a little custom touch to your bicycle's toestraps, use leather strapping with the pedals. Threading the leather straps is a quick task that should take no more than a few minutes per pedal.

Things You'll Need

  • Flat pedals with strap sleeves
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Instructions

    • 1

      Open the pedal strap sleeves. These are narrow metal clips not unlike a belt buckle sleeve.

    • 2

      Thread the holed side of the leather strap up and through the bottom left-hand corner of the pedal and bring it up to the center sleeve on the toe clip. Thread the holed-side of the strap through the toe-clip sleeve in the center of the pedal and pull it through and over to the right-hand bottom corner's sleeve. Push it through the sleeve and align it with the buckle and needle.

    • 3

      Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the other pedal.

    • 4

      Insert one foot at a time into the pedal strap and pull down on the loose end of the leather strap, now on the right-hand lower corner of the pedal. Push the buckle needle into the tightest possible hole and thread through the remainder of the buckle like you would do with a belt.