Originally Posted by
joesch
Love the story as much as the bike.
Coincidentally I have a similar model with nice story of trip from Dallas to San Antonio for pickup *and* same kind of stuck seatpost.
Let me know your solution as mine is still frozen and have not taken to a LBS for help.
Cool - thank you!
Does your stuck post move at all? If so, you might not have a huge dilemma ahead of you. Just squirt in some of that PB Blaster around the top of the seatpost and let it soak in. The PO and I did that the day I got the bike, then I got some more Blaster for my own use. I added some more the following day, and after about 1.5 days of letting it soak in (from the top only, tho the original intention was to have removed the BB and put in more Blaster from underneath, too) I gave it another go.
I placed a rag under the BB shell to protect it, another couple on the chainstays to protect them, then stepped on the stays with my left foot. I grabbed the saddle/post combo (leaving the saddle on gives plenty of leverage), began twisting and when the twisting suddenly became really easy, I pulled upwards. Took about 20 seconds.
Hopefully that's all there is to it. If not, and yours is REALLY stuck, there are a number of threads here that "step it up" when it comes to the removal process. Let's hope you don't have to go there!
Good luck
DD