I'd say, "no sh*t"! Ask me how I know! The shite Big 5 cruiser I just turned into something rideable for a charity recipient (thanks to those who donated parts for the cause) had a (expletive deleted), low end, 300 mm suspension post shoved through a shim and all the way down until the clamp bottomed out on the frame. Getting that POS out was a real chore! (It was replaced by a very nice 27.0 Ritchey Force sp very strangely cut down to about 100 mm long (that's right), but as the recipient is short, this worked well.)
[BTW: here it is, both before and after. https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5823569176782452770 https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5823820300053057762] Patrick Moore, who just found that a 25.4 mm seatpost works fine in a 25.0 seat tube with the addition of grease and a mallet. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:14 PM, ted <[email protected]> wrote: > Does having a lot of post down in the seat tube make it more prone to > sticking? > I went to adjust a post on a recent acquisition yesterday, and found I > couldn't budge it. I thought perhaps I had a dreaded "stuck post". So > I pulled the clamp bolt out, flexed the clamp ears a bit, applied some > penetrating oil and left it for later. Today I put a b-17 on it > adjusted square to the axis and with a lot of effort got the thing to > twist a bit. Since is was so hard to budge I figured I better pull it > all the way out. Turns out it's really long, like you could run close > to a foot of post showing long. > Could it being so long have contributed to my difficulty adjusting it? > -- ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
