Originally Posted by Crash2Much

Bicycles were invented when people still road horses. It was natural if horses have saddles bikes should too. For many years, K-Mart, Sears, Western Auto, sold bikes with seats and they sold replacement seats too. Tricycle, bicycles, motor cycles all had seats. Advertisements sold bike seats for many years. A bicycle has a seat on the seat post that fits into the seat tube. Hard core bicyclist says, saddle and the general public says seat. I go to Walmart & Target they sell bike seats. The bike shop looks at you cross eyed like they have no clue what a bike seat is, WE sell saddles. LOL.