London Cycle Hire Seats – Better experience?

Posted: October 29th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Random Musings, UX | 3 Comments »

The London Cycle Hire is a service where you rent a bike pay-as-you-go. If you keep the bike less than 30 minutes you don’t pay a charge so saving 30 seconds might make all of the difference. Those 30 seconds might be lost setting up the seat as you’ve got to set this to your height to ride well.

The seat post has numbers showing you a scale.

Great. If you know your ‘number’ you are set. But a lot of people don’t actually know they need to set the seat correctly or can even remember their ‘number’.

So here is an idea to make the seat post more useful.

Simple. Everyone knows their height (The number i’ve used above are very made up btw). It could have the height in cm on the other side of the post.

I wonder if it is useful though? Thoughts?

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  • http://twitter.com/karlsadler Karl Sadler

    two people who are the same height quite often prefer different saddle heights. It really is a personal choice and not dictated by your actual size unfortunately.

    • http://twitter.com/sermad sermad

      I guessed as much. I still think something on the seat giving you an indication of roughly were to put it is good. Rather than setting the height, getting on it, getting off, changing it, getting on / off / on / off etc etc.

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