What Grease for bottom bracket etc.

[cjs]

Need to service my drive chain, am fitting a new Sram cassette and chain and will strip down my Shimano bottom bracket.

So what Grease should I be buying to fit all this back together? Before I have just used Bearing Grease, same as I've used for my car!

Any recommendations?

[mowog]

very light smearing of lithium grease on the freehub body when you replace the cassette. You'll find that your Shimano BB is a sealed unit so there's not much you can to do to strip it down! If you fit a new one then a bit of Li grease on the threads will help.

[cjs]

Sorry I should have been a bit more accurate, of course I won't be striping down the sealed BB bearings.

I just need a good grease to lube up the threads etc and also grease my pedal bearings, seat post, headset etc. A good general grease that will do everything without going horrible and black. I'm also rebuilding an old bike to get it back on the road.

[Parrot of Doom]

You should strip the bearings down, there's no reason not to. The seals can be pried away with a thin jeweller's screwdriver.

Ignore the "DO NOT DISASSEMBLE" printed on the seals, that's just to frighten you into buying new.