Got this for free, perfect size for me. Catch is, the seat post is very seized. Aluminum post, steel frame. Any suggestions to divorce them are appreciated.
by Comfortable_Job_1903
Got this for free, perfect size for me. Catch is, the seat post is very seized. Aluminum post, steel frame. Any suggestions to divorce them are appreciated.
by Comfortable_Job_1903
12 Comments
What on earth…
We’re playing fast and loose with “perfect size” here
There’s no way that dynamo hub can power all those lights. That’s an insane amount of lights. Gotta easily be >5k lumens.
Spray penetrating oil, clamp seatpost in vice + twist, if still stuck try applying heat to seat tube with a torch (will damage paint) and try twisting again, if still stuck try sawing out as much as you can with a hacksaw, pull the rest out with pliers or dissolve with lye (will damage paint )
Did it come with all this crap on it? That is… something. I personally wouldn’t even ride to the corner store with that many stem extenders, but you do you.
As for the seatpost remove the bolt or clamp entirely. Then straddle the bike backwards, and use all your leverage to wiggle the saddle back and forth. Best to put a crappy saddle on for this, as you might break or bend the saddle rails. Just give it all you’ve got going back and forth until it budges. After you get it to move a little, you’ve broken the corrosion and you can shoot some PB blaster on it and give it 20 minutes and it should come right out.
If that doesn’t work you can try clamping the top of the seatpost it in a bench vice and gently leveraging the frame to twist it, but if it’s that stuck often you just end up breaking the seatpost doing this.
If that all fails or you broke the seatpost trying to get it to twist, take a hacksaw and saw off the seatpost a little above the top of the seat collar. Then take a hacksaw blade and carefully saw a slit into the seatpost remaining in the seat tube. Take your biggest pair of pliers, vice grips, or channel locks and curl up and mangle the remaining seatpost to get it out. This process sucks but it always works given enough patience and brute strength.
This is the x-biking I came here for.
Not sure if that’s enough lights? Maybe some on the forks?
1 million lumen forward and nothing on the rear
Are you planning to patrol the Stygian Abyss with this bicycle?
Are those dual horns? Can I have one?
I’m slightly in awe f the guy that was riding it before OP.
If primus was a bike.
yall check out r/surlybikefans , ya hear?
i’m a huge Surly fan. I see massive potential here. You got a great project here.
also all those wires and everything… That is something else!