A moment of appreciation.
 

I wanted to pause for a moment to thank bicycle mechanics who know no boundaries when comes to slathering on the grease. You folks, both living and dead who have taken the time to dip every bolt and risk your fingers jamming the goo down the holes over the years have brought endless joy through easily-removable fasteners, seat posts, stems and pretty much everything on a bike that is supposed to come apart.



Thanks, I love you
Frank

Hear! Hear!

Peace and grease. There can always be more.

I always get an AAHHH! moment when I pull a seat post out and find relatively new grease.

Grease is the Word.

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http://images-partners-tbn.google.co...n_of_cross.gifGrease be unto you

Aye.

The bike co-op I volunteer at grease (greasing) is a religion. :thumb:

Grease is Good.

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Keep it Greasy so It'll go down Easy

This thread is going downhill fast (thanks to some freshly greased hubs).

This should be in PastorBob's signature line.

Mutt

"All we are saying...is..give grease a chance"

Long live oil, and all it's children!

I love this pic. Thanks! There were none greasier.

It's usually the bike owners who are guilty of pumping 2 pounds of grease into a frame that all ends up packed solid in the BB as a nasty messy surprise for C&V restorers and mechanics......:D

Chombi

I call grease "Vitamin G".

(music)
Real Men of Genius
Today we salute you, Mr Extreme Bike Part Greaser
(Mr Extreme Bike Part Greaser! )
You love them all, Pedro's, Phil Wood, Finish Line...
(Lube, lube, lube, lube!)
And there's no part dry and rusty in your fleet
(Grease it down!)
So crack open a tub of marine trailer bearing lube, oh Sultan of Slip
Cause in our book, there's nothing worse than a stuck seatpost.
Bike Forums, Classic and Vintage.
Lube responsibly.

You don't listen to that music; you wear it in your hair.

When I was killin time on salt water boats I'd dip lightbulbs in grease before I screwed them into their socket. They'd rust long before they burnt out.

And also to you!

The next person who mentions "Phil Wood" in a poem about bicycle-related lubricants is going to get whupped by Mobile 1 synthetic.

-Kurt

:thumb:
That church choir is rubbing off on you! :lol:
With a little work I could set this to a hymn tune. ;)
Kurt, go easy on Joel. :) He's a professional videographer with ten little feet running around his farm, while herding his pet goats and doing his best to rescue stray C&V bikes from town dumps and transfer stations. Give him a pass on the Phil slip (sic). ;)
Frank called me the other morning. I was vain enough when I read his title that I thought he was going to say something about chatting with a fellow C&Ver is a wonderful way to begin each day. :o Well it was for me! :thumb:

Frank, grease to bikes is like the best dog in the world. Always there, always ready to do its job, always friendly! :D

I tell the kids I teach to build bikes that future generations of wrenches will thank them for through greasing of seatpost and stem. Ditto BB cups, cage bolts, ect.

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He that spareth his grease hateth his bicycle.

I've been working on a beat, rusty Miyata over the last week (off and on). Aluminum stem, steel post, both badly oxidized. You wouldn't have expected either to come out - especially the stem.

On the contrary - someone greased this thing up right and proper when it was first built. Everything disassembled as smooth as butter.


-Kurt

P.S.: I ought to reference this on the Mechanics forum, seeing that there are a number of know-it-alls there who claim that greasing a seatpost or stem won't hold up for 15 years; much less 30. Speak of hogwash.