well we put together parts from the assortment of bikes/parts we have around and ordered replacements from ebay. actually we found a better bianchi seat bag and official bianchi seat post (the other was brand x). and a kinda nasty looking replacement seat, but dh Must Have the specialized alias 143 and we got it cheap.

i really like the idea of special skewers (like locking lug nuts) and i really-really like the alarmed locks. i am so going to look into that.

thanks all for commiserating in our time of loss.