Patent ID: 7722115

Claim:
A method of adjustment of a bicycle seat assembly, wherein said bicycle assembly comprises a bicycle seat, a hollow seat post receiving an elongated adjusting member thereinside, a wedge sub-assembly formed at an interface between a distal end of the adjusting member and the seat post, a fastener driver associated with the bicycle seat and adapted for engagement with a proximal end of the elongated adjusting member, said method comprising the steps of: engaging the fastener driver with the proximal end of the elongated adjusting member; rotating the fastener driver in a first direction causing tightening of a connection between the bicycle seat, the seat post and the elongated adjusting member and fixing the bicycle seat in a predetermined position, said rotation causing simultaneous tightening of the wedge sub-assembly resulted in fixing a position of the seat post within a bicycle frame; and rotating the fastener driver in a second direction opposite to the first direction, so as to cause loosening the connection between the bicycle seat, the seat post and the elongated adjusting member, to allow repositioning of the bicycle seat and to cause simultaneous loosening of the wedge sub-assembly resulting in movement of the seat post within the bicycle frame; wherein said engagement between the fastener driver and the proximal end of the adjusting member is a threadable engagement, so that in said step of rotating the fastener driver in the second direction, the threadable engagement is at least partially disengaged and in said step of rotating the fastener driver in the first direction said threadable engagement is fully engaged.