You calm down, and check an online guide – like our guide to changing pedals.

Hopefully, you’ve been turning the pedal spanner the right way – remember “pedals will tighten going forward, loosen going back. Which means that on the drive side of the bike, it’s normal thread, and on the non-drive side, it’s reverse thread – lefty tighty, righty loosey.”

If you’ve been going the WRONG way, it means the ‘nudging’ you’ve done so far has only further tightened the little blighters.

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