I had an issue with my seat this week. But I found that the seat post would not come out of the frame. It seemed to be jammed solid.
I tried a weighty ball pein hammer. It budged it alright in that at least it slide down about 5 or 6mm. Not rusted on but still not coming out. Now I had a seat that was too low.
5mm low does not sound much to a cyclist. But on a uni it can make the ride impossible for some and unpleasant for others. Sort of like having to ride the whole trip with a 15 degree cross slope sort of unpleasant. The last two days have sucked I have scaled my riding right back to the basic 10km because of it. My first two day break this year.
So this evening I took the whole thing out to the shed, put the post in the heavy duty offset vice (I had to really rack up the pressure) and grabbed my handy 5 foot crow bar that usually just breaks concrete.
A push to the left... a push to the right... back to the left. Voila. About a minute to work it all free.
Finesse and delicacy are fine. But sometimes you just gotta go rough. Other than some vice-bite marks that I had to file off the seat post nothing seems to have suffered.
More than ever I am looking forward to the ride tomorrow.
frame job would cost?
