Last night while changing the front tyre I applied a small amount of grease to the dropouts and the QR skewer, and now I don't get creaking from the front end. So that's nice, because I was beginning to wonder whether I am just irredeemably bad at building wheels
Question for the assembled experts (and whoever else): I'm assuming that greasing these surfaces is not going to make the wheel slide out more easily, and my basis for the assumption is that my saddle has never yet slid all the way down into the seat tube despite that I grease the seat post. But why is this? Seems counterintuitive that making something more slippery doesn't make it more likely to slip out
Question for the assembled experts (and whoever else): I'm assuming that greasing these surfaces is not going to make the wheel slide out more easily, and my basis for the assumption is that my saddle has never yet slid all the way down into the seat tube despite that I grease the seat post. But why is this? Seems counterintuitive that making something more slippery doesn't make it more likely to slip out