Rescue this Concorde 55cm F&F

This Concorde is a hot mess.

Ridden for ages by me, probably build in Italy by Ciocc and painted in Belgium.

I love this bike but sadly it has a very stuck alloy seatpost.

It has lived a hard life and shows it, as the pictures show. It somehow has no dents. It's got an Italian threaded BB shell fitted with a new Shimano 4700 bottom bracket.

It measures;
ST (ctt) – 56cm
TT (ctc) – 55cm
HT – 13cm

I'm asking £30 posted.
Any funds left after the courier costs will be a forum donation.

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bb shell image 1

bb shell image 2

dropouts

stuck post!

fork detail

tubing type

Hnggg, have always wanted a Concorde. I think I could save this. Pm'ing with provisional dibs

Conditions of 'sale' include letting us all know how you get on :)

Hell yes!
Here's the last rescue - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/349204/

2nd if original dibs follows through ! Been after something like this for ages

It's gone!

The rescue is in-progress. Thank you all for the interest and making sure this doesn't end up in a skip.

Lovely! Hope the resto goes well

eek, no pressure lol

Looking forward to seeing the seat post removal. I haven’t been successful yet!

I tried;

Drilling, to put a bar through the post (the bar just bent)
Cutting the length of the seatpost (with a hacksaw blade in a jab saw holder-thing)
More wrestling, this time with a blow-torch heating the seat tube

I wonder if I had a workshop bench (and vice or two) I could probably have got a result with the same techniques.

Nice, would hav had this for sure! I'm currently battling a few seat posts, going to try RJ the bike guys impact wrench method next..

Winston Vaz will melt it out very cheaply - say goodbye to the paint on the seat tube though

Shed has a big old Record vice. That’ll be the first stop, after a good soak in plusgas.
Going down the caustic soda route will leave as a last resort ha ha

Seen a few people using air/SDS hammers to get them out. Might be a aggressive mind.