What grease for seatpost?

curium
curium Posts: 815
edited December 2009 in Amateur race
I'm putting a new seat post in and removing the old one, noticed there's quite a lot of grease on it.

What sort of grease should I put on the new one?

Is white lithium grease OK, or should I be using something else?

Cheers

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  • gandhi
    gandhi Posts: 187
    If you're putting in a carbon one, then no grease.
  • evilnailman
    evilnailman Posts: 29
    What materials are you talking about, if its a carbon frame or carbon post then you should use something like Tacx carbon assembly paste rather than grease.
  • Toonraid
    Toonraid Posts: 126
    Many use grease but i don't know why as you end up with it slipping!
  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    Toonraid wrote:
    Many use grease but i don't know why as you end up with it slipping!
    I just ended up using white lithium grease which I had in the shed. Apparently the grease stops it seizing in the frame over time due to galvanic corrosion
  • Toonraid
    Toonraid Posts: 126
    You could always take it out and give it good clean once in a while or use Tacx's Carbon Assembly paste which is great for Carbon parts but should also do the trick for Alu without making it slip.
    http://www.competitivecyclist.com/road- ... e_388.html
  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    Fortunately it's got ribs so slipping shouln't be an issue.

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