Makes me p!$$ed off just reading this! Sorry to see this kind of thing. ...and a Brooks!

I'm lucky to be able to bring my ride in with me at work. My boss even gave me a spot to build a personals cabinet in the warehouse so I wouldn't have to drive in with all my trucking stuff.

When I'm going elsewhere, like Home Depot or Wal-greens or whatever, I walk in and ask to bring my bike inside. Haven't been turned down yet. If it ever happens. I'll ask the manager if he wants my business or not - I can always ride to the next establishment.

And, oddly enough, it is illegal in Oregon:

ORS 814.470 Failure to use bicycle seat; penalty. (1) A person commits the offense of failure to use a bicycle seat if the person is operating a bicycle and the person rides other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached to the bicycle.

(2) A person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device is not subject to this section.

(3) The offense described in this section, failure to use bicycle seat, is a Class D traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §706; 2003 c.341 §13]

Go figure. Can you imagine having your saddle boosted, then getting a citation on the way home? Insult to injury...

Illegal here too. I dare them to arrest me.

One thing that works is filling allen bolt tops with solder. It is easy enough to undo at home with a torch, but most people don't carry a propane torch with them unless they smoke crack. Oh wait...

At least the thief had the decency to steal something worthwhile. I don't like being robbed, but I think that if some punk is going to screw me by stealing something I need, s/he owes it to me to at least take something that can readily be sold or used.

Nut up...Floyd Landis once rode the better part of his leg of a mountain bike endurance relay race doing a wheelie because his front wheel was completely taco'd.

Kryptonite has thicker cables that can lock a seat down. It is in a longer length than i'd like but will work if put on once you get to work. could lock a wheel or so up with it too. I was hoping for a shorter length like I used to use so it could stay on permanently.

You have my sympathy. I've done it once myself.

Hmm. Never thought about seat theft. Since I use cables and padlocks for bike security, a long cable that runs through frame, seat, wheels, rack and a random immobile object might just be enough. I rarely need to lock up for very long, and my stuff is far from new.

I've used both Pinhead (when it was marketed by Kryptonite) and Pitlock locking skewers/seatpost binders. I find the Pitlock to be much higher quality.

The Pitlock is easier to use, (the Pinhead "key" is a PITA. I wouldn't want to be sitting by the side of the road in the rain trying to use one), better designed, and made of higher quality steel. My Pinheads' rusted. My Pitlocks didn't.

https://www.pitlock.de/en/

Here's my solution:

1. Remove the QR lever and bolt. Peplace with a s/s security torx bolt.
2. I removed the torx tool from my CB minitool and replaced it with a security torx key for the saddle in case I still need it for whatever reason on a ride.

Of course to be totally consistent I would have to treat the seatpost bolt as well, which I haven't as yet.

Replace that rusty washer while you're at it.

On the bright side, cycling while standing strengthens the vastus medialis [inner quad] and calf muscles. The gearing on my single-speeds is high enough that I have to stand on every hill.

I've never seen such a setup. On both web sites it was unclear to me how to lock and unlock. Can you explain where the physical lock is mounted on the bike? When you park the bike exactly what do you do?Do

That is actually a phosphor-bronze washer, it went like that after the holidays. I have no idea why it looks like rust.

next time it happens, think of it as your training to take on this guy-
https://www.goedkoopsteskelter.nl/recordpoging.htm

he tried to set the hour record for a bike with no saddle. surprisingly, the record is held by fausto coppi...

Yeah, I can't quite figure out how those Pinhead skewers work, either... Please explain!


As for securing your bolts and screws, you can use a Dremel tool to grind off the slot (hex, philips, flat head, whatever) so that it's impossible to use a regular screwdriver or allan key to remove it. The thief would need another dremel (to cut off the screwhead or make a new slot) or maybe a vice grip to remove the screw.

Just make sure that your seat post is set to the right height before you do it...

Instead of a standard nut and bolt the Pinheads have a rounded (think of an upside down bowl) head with small groves cut into them. The key is matched to the groves. The key tends to slip out of the groves quite easily. You don't need to do anything to them when you park, they are attrached as any other skewer would be.

The Pitlocks have a coded nut and a socket set up. You put the socket on the nut and turn it with either a 14mm wrench or an allen wrench through a hole in the socket. This is much easier to use in my experience.