[y42]

Nope, thread starter has a point here. It's not only pedals and screws. You probably would like to remove the front gears and therefore the chain, that requires you to remove the whole rear weel. What if you have a back-pedalling brake hub. Besides that now you have a "hole" in the gear area, maybe full of oil, Also the bike designed to perfectly run with the full gear on. And so on... you may not want to tamper that "perfectly" aligned system if your kid is playing with it. Nope...it's not just about removing the pedals.

[hcho]

Or just remove the pedals and tape one of the cranks to the chain stay so they don't spin and catch the trousers. Did this with my daughter's bike and it held up fine for the month she pootled on it until she was ready to pedal.

[ars]

Why do you need to remove any gears? You just unscrew the pedal from the arm and that's it.

I'm really not understanding why you think it's necessary to remove more than that.

I've done it on quite a number of different bikes, it really is quite easy.