Been trying to remove the seatpost for weeks now. Ive been spraying it with wd40 and giving it a good wiggle and pull every couple of days with no notable progress. Eventually got fed up and mcgyvered this contraption and got about an inch of extraction before it stopped budging. Any suggestions before I cut the seatpost?
by WILLMARQ23
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https://youtu.be/qwiwxuzyXoo
What you are doing in the picture….. don’t. If it breaks loose, those straps are like a slingshot, and that seat is a nasty projectile. If the strap at the bottom bracket fails, the whole frame will make for a nasty projectile
Looks fun!
A more secure way is to cut off the post close to the frame and then split the post in the frame with a saw blade (recriprocating saw if you are light on the hand).
Takes some time but will probably work.
creeping oil, heat n’ beat, just beating, twisting, drilling with a big drill for efficient twisting forces,
If you need to continue the strap method, rout it around a corner so the projectile (seat) fires in any other direction than your face (may get tangled around the pivot point and spins, leave safety distance or better dont continue), cursing
I just got into bike repairs and told myself it’s the most intuitive thing known to man, but then I log on here and see these wholly alien configurations like what you posted OP and realise I’m such a hubris filled chump.
Dunno what youre trying to do but looks mad 🤙