Originally Posted by
joesch
RE: Believe it or don’t- the actual Rivendell instructions say to grease the seat binder bolt.
Yes I believe as this is a standard practice to prevent corrosion leading to stuck seat posts in seat tubes over time.
You probably know that for carbon tubes and seat posts, there is a special kind of grease that helps prevent slipping.
Hi!
joesch - I've always liberally applied grease to the quill stem and head tube (Al and Fe in tight contact); seat post and seat tube (Al and Fe in tight contact); crankset to pedal spindle and BB spindle (more Al and Fe contact) - to prevent / slow the corrosion between similar metals.
I've not greased binder bolts before.
I had a similar slipping seatpost issue on my GUNNAR CrossHairs. I figured it was the min diameter polished 27.2mm seatpost in a max diameter 27.2mm seattube. My LBS gave a few globs of carbon paste to put in the seattube and it worked OK, but I ended up with a bit more slipping. So I put a cheap KALLOY Uno post in my GUNNAR and it's working just fine. It's also not nicely polished like the NITTO. It never occurred to me to grease the binder bolt!
Probably I don't need the carbon paste in the RoadUno, but it's in there now.
cheers!