How to prevent seizure of seatpost and pedals
The appalling winter is likely to have placed more than its usual demands on your faithful steed and despite the most rigorous cleaning regime, it’s still possible to face the nightmare scenario of parts that are stuck fast and cannot be removed, with seatpost and pedals the leading candidates.
Fortunately, avoiding such undesirable – and expensive – dilemmas, is a simple task, if you know how. We know a man who does. Jon Hayes, mechanic at independent bike shop, Ride, is a man with a quarter of a century’s experience of racing and servicing bikes.
In the latest instalment of our video maintenance series, Jon demonstrates the importance of regularly removing the seatpost and talks through the various challenges and solutions presented by combinations of chassis and seatpost materials, including securing a carbon post in an alu frame, or a carbon post in a carbon frame.
Pedals are in the firing line for road spray and threads can become seized in the crank arms faster than you can say, “mechanic’s bill”. The timely application of grease can help you side-step this unwanted turn of events. Prevention better than cure? We’d say so.
