Originally Posted by
Alan Edwards
Posted on Road Bike but no answer. Have an old aluminum Schwinn Super Sport and a new carbon fiber seat post, what can I use to put between the two. Grease? I don't want a chemical reaction as some products ruin the resin on the carbon. Vasaline? Dry? I realy don't know about this new stuff, I've worked on bikes 25-30 years, don't know s*** about carbon.
1) Get some carbon paste, but until you do,
2) just assemble the post in the tube clean and dry.
3) after assembly, brush on a fine layer of waterproof grease, or whatever grease you have around the seatpost/seattube/seatclamp junction to seal it up from water infiltration.
HTH
zac