Stuck Seat Post

[VeloVT]

Clever, Kat!

Sheldon Brown has an extensive article on stuck seatposts (of course):

http://sheldonbrown.com/stuck-seatposts.html

RIP Sheldon Brown...

[BluePeace2]

As a music teacher you get a lot of students who get their mouth pieces stuck in their brass instruments, normally we have this nifty tool but with tubas it doesn't work so we would put the tube (your bike frame) against a softish hard surface (mdf or something like that) and tap tap tap with a rawhide mallet, always worked. it'd give it a go.

[mimitabby]

yeah, Karen, did you fix it?

[Kano]

No success yet -- but it's not a real high priority project, since it's unlikely he'll ride that bike again. On the other hand, maybe if this can be solved, he will want to ride it, but otherwise, some new owner will be happier with it if the seat is adjustable, so I'd like to solve it eventually!

Karen in Boise

[Fujichants]

That is indeed the worst problem a bike can have, and its the thing LBS guys dread the most. I just read an article on this in Bicycling magazine...here's the link:

http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6...7162-1,00.html

Good luck!!!

[Blueberry]

Our LBS guys are fighting with one on a tandem now. They actually (oops) broke it off, so they're somehow sawing small pieces of it out now...

CA