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Supergoose Seatpost Problem - A BIG ONE

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750Rush:
Well, I thought it felt slightly heavy when I bought it, but now I know why.

After filling the seatpost with coca-cola and letting it sit for the morning, I attahed the stem to it, them the forks to the stem and with some more WD40 had a good old twist (it was very stiff) this is what I found:











Nothing like a big iron rod to make a super light race bike  :-\

So much for what I thought would be a nice blue rental seat post too.

The seat post was twisting off the iron bar. I've tried to twist the iron bar out with some molegrips on it, but it won't shift. My question is, how the heck is it stuck in? I know there is a small crack on the frame where the seatpost inserts, but wouldn't it have been easier to weld that back up?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated as I have already paid far too much for this bike as it had a cracked rear tuff and now this  :-[

Bob_Acid:
I would hazard a guess that you have a seat post stuck in there and someone has hammered the bar down into it to hold the post on the top

750Rush:
How do I get it all out?

sawzall:
you could try welding a bar on top of post forming a "T" then put it in a vice and try turning it :daumenhoch:

rooski:
You need to get a big slide hammer,

Drill and tap the end of the bar,screw a bolt in there,and attach it to the slide hammer :daumenhoch:

get someone to hold the frame and get hammering :daumenhoch:

looks like this

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