On most bikes nowadays, there is a mechanism for the 'quick release' of your bike saddle, making it easier to adjust at a moments notice. This is great, because it doesn't require the usage of an alan key I think was what my old bike used to need.
However recently some little fool used this quick release to steal my bike saddle, not the bike, because that was locked up, oh no just the saddle

Anyway to my idea. All quick release saddles would now have a small combination lock built into them. This means that although it may not be instantaneously quick to adjust the saddle, it only takes a couple of seconds to unlock it.
needless to say I didn't ride the bike home.
-- kaz, Jul 14 2002

thought this was going to be an ejector saddle
-- po, Jul 14 2002


I suppose there could be a tamper system built in so that if a potential thief tryed stealing the saddle, it could use compressed CO2 to fire itself into the air, thus smacking the thief square in the chops, thereby rendering them unconscious. It could then reel itself back into place and lock into position again.
-- kaz, Jul 14 2002



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