Man peddles from Paris to Johannesburg, said the website, since rectified to the correct spelling – “pedals”.
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Hey, to peddle is to sell something. A pedal is a foot-operated lever, the kind you see in a bicycle.
Peddle is a verb. Pedal is a noun. The confusion seeps in when you use pedal as a verb. To pedal is to use that lever which you operate with feet or hands.
What was this guy doing? He was pedaling – he pedaled for two years to reach the World Cup venue in South Africa. Great story, when you get the right spelling.
If you write “He peddled” the question would be “What did he peddle”? As in what did he sell? But that is not the story, right?These sentences should make the difference between “peddle” and “pedal” clear.
Bobby pedals his bike around the neighborhood on his newspaper rounds. He also peddles fresh fish. I don’t know if he wraps the fish he peddles in the newspaper he throws, but he certainly pedals a lot of miles in these rounds.

“Peddle” by the way, is a product of back-formation. It comes from the word peddler”, one who sells things while moving from place to place. You’ve seen the peddlers’ carts everywhere, haven’t you?
Here is a cute sentence on it. “If you are delivering newspapers from a bike you can pedal it around the neighborhood (perhaps wearing “pedal-pushers”), but when you sell them from a news-stand you peddle them.”