Folding Bikes - seatpost lube recommendations?

for those of you with folders where the seatpost moves as part of the folding process (all of them?), what do you use to lube the seatpost, but which also isn't a pain to wipe off hands & clothes if they come in contact with the seatpost when it's extended?

I am no expert, but I thought you are not supposed to add any lube on the seatpost. It greatly reduces the grip on the post and make your saddle slips. Not to mention it doesn't add the greasy mess. My folder doesn't come with any lube, nor does it need any.

I am no expert, but I thought you are not supposed to add any lube on the seatpost. It greatly reduces the grip on the post and make your saddle slips. Not to mention it doesn't add the greasy mess. My folder doesn't come with any lube, nor does it need any.

Grease is only applied on seatposts of bicycles that you do not need to reset the seatpost height frequently. Often I have to fix bicycles with sized seatposts because the guy (or girl) that assemble the bicycle years earlier did not aplied a bit grease inside the seatpost.

The way I see it, it is metal-metal seatposts & tubes that need grease: Steel-steel obviously to slow down rust and subsequent solid freezing of the seatpost; alum-alum same reason. Carbon - no rust, no grease.

I've been experimenting on my Dahon. My Speed P8 has a painted alloy seatpost, and an alloy shim in the steel frame. I tried parrafin wax in-between the post and the shim, with standard bike grease between the shim and the frame (works well for lubricating wooden drawers...), but that has been a bit of a disaster. It works perfectly when it is dry out, but for some reason when it gets humid out the shim sticks to the post like crazy.

I think most of the parrafin has worn away by now, and now I'm trying baby powder between the shim and the post. That has worked well so far...

Boeshield. (http://www.boeshield.com/)

cool! do you use it for all the other suggested applications too, like chains?

cool! do you use it for all the other suggested applications too, like chains?
Yes.