JaxRhapsody
Rhapsodic Laviathan
You guys probably knew this one already, but for those who don't, it's a nice trick.
Long story short; last year I came across two abandoned bikes on my trip downtown a few blocks apart, one of my favorite bikes; a Cranbrook, and a bike I had been wanting since I saw them, I think a year before; a Seachange.
The Seachange was the issue. It had a stuck seatpost in it. I used wd-40 on it, there seemed to be a milimeter gap or so at the top, so I thought it was odd to be stuck. I tried the seat and seat clamp trick and it didn't work, tapped along the seat tube to try and break it loose. Nothing worked, so I let it sit and hit it with wd-40 here and there. Then at some point started trying to feed a bottle of mixed motor oil in it, to get it loose.
It wasn't super priority, so it rarely got attention. I've really wanted one but can't afford a new one, so I wanted to keep it, if I couldn't get it out, it'd hafta be gotten rid of and I didn't want to do that over a stuck post. I got desperate one day and used some coitus lube on it, lol. Nobody from the local bike group gave me any help, so I looked up ways to remove it, that I could try and found an old Reddit post on using a fork and stem.
--Just like that. Clamp it down hard on the post and twist and turn it.
--There was some crap they had stuffed in with the post to make it fit. With all the rust and lubes on it over the past few months, it looked like crap, so I didn't inspect what it was, but was probably some thin plastics and paper used as a wedge.
Now the bike is ready to built up, which will probably be another [short] thread. These finds allowed me to also compare the bikes. I did a tiktok on that.
Long story short; last year I came across two abandoned bikes on my trip downtown a few blocks apart, one of my favorite bikes; a Cranbrook, and a bike I had been wanting since I saw them, I think a year before; a Seachange.
The Seachange was the issue. It had a stuck seatpost in it. I used wd-40 on it, there seemed to be a milimeter gap or so at the top, so I thought it was odd to be stuck. I tried the seat and seat clamp trick and it didn't work, tapped along the seat tube to try and break it loose. Nothing worked, so I let it sit and hit it with wd-40 here and there. Then at some point started trying to feed a bottle of mixed motor oil in it, to get it loose.
It wasn't super priority, so it rarely got attention. I've really wanted one but can't afford a new one, so I wanted to keep it, if I couldn't get it out, it'd hafta be gotten rid of and I didn't want to do that over a stuck post. I got desperate one day and used some coitus lube on it, lol. Nobody from the local bike group gave me any help, so I looked up ways to remove it, that I could try and found an old Reddit post on using a fork and stem.
--Just like that. Clamp it down hard on the post and twist and turn it.
--There was some crap they had stuffed in with the post to make it fit. With all the rust and lubes on it over the past few months, it looked like crap, so I didn't inspect what it was, but was probably some thin plastics and paper used as a wedge.
Now the bike is ready to built up, which will probably be another [short] thread. These finds allowed me to also compare the bikes. I did a tiktok on that.
