The other day while instructing, I noticed my 'dropper' seatpost wasn't behaving just as it should. The following day I decided it must be time to give it a service/fettle, so off I went into the workshop.

Rather than emerging 30 minutes later basking in the warm glow of a job well done ... I emerged 2 hours later, clutching the wreckage that was once a dropper seatpost

Remember folk ... keep some grease on those seatposts and check they're not starting to seize from time to time

Ouch!
Hope the frame survided the ordeal a good deal better!

I'm glad to say the frame survived intact. I'd have been gutted if I'd damaged it ... we've been together for a long, long time so I was willing (not like I had a choice) to sacrifice the post

holy crapola

/trundles off to check the post on my Blur that I haven't moved for over a year...