How to Build Up a Bike

Step 3 Seat post.

Insert the seat clamp, then the post. Grease the heck out of the part of the post that will be in the frame to keep it from rusting together. Then put the seat on.

I then clamp it in the bike stand using the post, but thats up to you...

Comments

[bobbyderf123]

wouldn't greasing it make it want to slide around in the frame?

[YellowRex]

Bobby, if you don't grease it, it will eventually rust and seize up in the frame. Then both the frame and the seat post will be ruined. No one other than you (including potentially you in the future, if you gain or lose weight) will be able to adjust the bicycle to fit them properly.

The seat post is held in place by appropriate tension on the clamp, not friction inside the seat tube.

[jwbtravel]

To save some dough, some pedals dont need a pedal wrench. I had some shimano SPD pedals that took an allen wrench on the back side and a pedal wrench where most pedals do, negating the need for a pedal wrench. My crank brothers candy-c pedals arent designed to work with a pedal wrench at all; they only work w/ allen wrench.