Originally posted by MichaelW
Removing a seatpost is so much hastle. Why not just use a cheap seatpost and saddle with a bolt and allen key, then no-one will want to steal it.
Yes they will and they did. That’s why I’m cautious now. But I do have two seats; for shorter trips where I gonna leave my bike I use the cheap one, which is a hell to sit on. I don’t have the expensive seat just cause it’s expensive, but cause it’s so much nicer to sit on than any seat I’ve had before.
Try timimg how long it takes you to secure and refit QR mounted seatpost and wheels. (30secs a lockup). Multiply the number of lockups a year (500), that is 15000 secs (over 4 hours a year).
Yeah, it’s about 30 seconds, as it is to lock the bike itself. But I don’t mind, I already use like 30 hours a year to brush my teeth, 120 hours a year to stand in line in shops and 950 hours a year to do nothing. Maybe that was your ironic point.
