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New easy on off bike racks made in New Zealand are definitely worth a look; http://www.freeload.co.nz/

 

See GPS tracks and photos of places Tom has been riding here;

http://www.everytrail.com/profile.php?user_id=48915

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Climate Change on your mind? Ride your bike and talk about it.

New Saddle Packaging Debuts at Interbike 2009 (photos at left & right):

All Saddles ship in Tote Bag packaging. Our custom tote bags fit a pair of shoes, helmet, water bottles, change of clothes and more, or a full bag of groceries with handy over the shoulder length straps. The Saddle Adjustment Procedure pamphlet and product registration card is inserted in a reusable, foldable, waterproof wallet that will hold ID, credit cards, insurance cards, cash, and your cell phone while riding.

Our Adjustment Procedure pamphlet offers a Comprehensive yet simple How To bike fitting overview and a Practical process to fit our unique saddle while getting more comfortable than you have ever been on a bike. Please read it.

Multi Purpose Rivendell A. Homer Hilson ride news. This lovely machine has been making a wild variety of rides including fast, light load touring trips 600 miles down the California coast from Northern to Southern California in all weather conditions with and without full fenders from Planet Bike. This winter (2009, '10) sans fenders with cyclocross tires we started test riding saddles in some extreme off road conditions and terrain. Here is a link to the GPS track and photos of the infamous Gates Canyon Mix Canyon route in Solano County, California; http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=416252 This Lynch Canyon cross ride has photos and a ride description but no GPS track; http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=445447

The Rivendell does not require any significant changes to the components for such dramatic terrain differences. It is equipped with a Shimano SL Ultegra group set with XTR rear derailleur and XTR, Mavic Open Pro ceramic wheel set custom built. The group includes a compact crank so the chain rings can be easily changed out for road and cross set ups from 33 to 54 tooth ring sizes. The cassette has been an 11-34 for cyclocross use, and 11-25 for road uses. The bike uses special Tektro brake calipers that will accommodate tires up to 40 mm and full fenders! Pictured at the right with WTB Cross Wolf DNA 700 x 32 tires. The Tektro caliper type brakes worked better than cantilever brakes on Deb's BMC CX01 cross specific bike. Those loaded up completely with mud during the Lynch Canyon slug fest mud ride, pictures linked in previous paragraph.

The Rivendell is pictured above at the left during a rainy day ride mid January 2010 with full fenders and Continental GP 4 Season 700 x 28 rubber. It is nice to own a bike that does so many things so well. Pictured at the right during a super technical ride in Rockville Park, near Fairfield, CA in October 2009.

Sept 2009 customer email:

Dear Selle An-Atomica,
I am interested in your design. I am from the UK. I currently ride a Brooks B17 Narrow Imperial. It suffers from insufficient stability around the cut-out, and the shape is not optimal. Like your company, I take great care in proper saddle angle and height adjustment, so this is not the reason for searching for a better saddle.
Best wishes,
Ben S-H
United Kingdom

  • September 2009 Cannondale will use Selle An-Atomica again on the 2010 Touring 1. Details here: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/09/cusa/model-8TR1.html

  • Selle An-Atomica carried Joff Summerfield across the USA where he encountering RAAM racers in the eastern mountains among countless other adventures traveling from SF down the coast, over to Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Washington DC, NYC and Toronto. Joff is now in Toronto preparing to depart for Lisbon, then home to London for Christmas. Photographed between Santa Cruz and Monterey, CA after 15,000 miles and one year, ten months journey. 13 March, 2008 Link to Joff's journal.

  • Ostrich hide colors in stock; Flame Red, Indian Pink, Cognac, Antique Saddle, Black, Tangerine, White, Silver Black, Neon Green, Emerald Green, & Calfee Yellow.

NEW in 2008

  • Black Rivets. We introduced black rivets Spring 2008. Available on any of our leather or Ostrich hide colors. Pictured at left.

  • 1 minute of August 2006 Test film short standard production Wisconsin Made Titanico LD Watershed, and Robusto LD, Settebello LD prototypes. 10 MB file size. Longer versions are here.

  • White Watershed Leather passes final tests during the challenging Central Coast Double May 10th. Pictured on the Giant TCR at left. Tom rode the saddle new out of the box for 12 hrs, 43 minutes, 209 grueling miles, nearly 14,000 feet of climbing. Pictured by itself with Standard Laminate Copper rivets on the right.

  • In the first two years, we warranted 94 saddles for leather that stretched prematurely, 27 for bent frames, 3 for broken frames, and 3 failed welds on the tension screw nut. That represents about 0.01% of production since inception. Saddles returned for a refund represent one tenth of 0.01%. We are introducing 4th Generation Watershed tannage in 2008 that is going to help reduce the number of saddles that stretch prematurely. Being as this is not manmade material, we will likely have a very small number of saddles that stretch out sooner than we'd like. That said, the riding comfort reputation Selle An-Atomica is becoming well known for around the world is unsurpassed. That was our goal when research & development work begin in earnest.

  • Selle An-Atomica has given cyclists a saddle that allows them to ride in comfort for the first time in their lives because the saddle is designed to function in a way that the body moves. Now we can afford to ride more, drive less, and Reduce Green House Gas Carbon Footprint, help turn the corner on Climate Change. Learn more about Living Neutral here. This is a registered non profit business. The website has excellent CO² calculators for automobile & plane travel and home life. We can purchase 100% Tax Deductible Carbon Offset Credits after using the appropriate calculator.

  • Another excellent Global Warming organization is Environmental Defense.

August 2007 - Selle An-Atomica conquers Paris Brest Paris 1200km and Alpe d'Huez 4 days hence!

 

Distance Ridden 1233.6 km (766.5 miles). Elapsed Time 88 hrs 54 minutes. Riding Time approximately 70 hrs. Fastest Speed 61 kph.

Photo at left is Tom & company during a dry spell sometime Tuesday after 9:30 pm Monday start. I had planned to ride through to Brest, the ride mid point. Weather was so terrible I stopped at Tinteniac to eat, shower, sleep/dry out, eat, and go. Photo below on left are father and son farmers in rural French countryside beyond Tinteniac Wednesday morning very early. These fellows were there cheering and clapping as we passed so I turned around to amuse them with my meager French language skills and the unusual Calfee Design Bamboo bike. Alpe d'Huez photo speaks for itself. This is a permanent winners stand at the top of this famous 21 hairpin 13 km climb in the Rhone Alpes. If you go to attempt this climb stay at Hotel de Milan in Bourg d'Oisans, the small town at the foot of the climb. Everything you need is on two blocks of downtown adjacent to the hotel along the quaint stone street. There is an excellent bike shop across from the hotel. See Jean Louis for dinner. He is the proprietor at Restaurant de France up the street. You'll want the signature aperitif Jean Louis makes when not stitching his hiking and riding clothes, aperitif followed by the signature tartiflettes main dish, one of the best cycling meals on the planet if you like potatoes and three cheeses. The restaurant across the main highway from the Hotel on the opposite side of the river makes excellent continental dishes and pizzas with riverside outdoor dining. Laundry is two blocks up the cobblestones with outstanding glacier, crepe, sausage, bread, and chocolate makers in between.

Tom's PBP bicycle equipment: Custom handmade Calfee Design Bamboo frame with PBP specific geometry and special Alpha Q carbon fork, Selle An-Atomica Robusto Watershed leather development test saddle, Campagnolo Record Group, Chris King hub set with Stainless Steel freewheel hub, Cycle Dynamics 11-30 Titanium cassette, DT Swiss straight gauge spokes black, Mavic Open Pro rims black, Continental GP 4 Season 700 x 25 tires with Michelin Butyl A-1 inner tubes, Speedplay Frog pedals clipped to Sidi Narrow Mountain shoes, FSA alloy stem, Ritchey Biomax Pro carbon short shallow bars with special anatomic padding and Selle An-Atomica Watershed leather bar tape, Tubus dual level setback alloy rear rack with Busch & Muller tail lamp and Ortlieb panniers, Topeak frame pump, Full Wood fenders, Cateye headlamps and 8 function computer. Want to see detail photos of the bike taken after PBP at a car wash in Bourg d'Oisans where it received a much needed bath and the fabled Alpe d'Huez; Go Here.

Comprehensive photo galley from this European trip including 2007 Paris Brest Paris ride is here. Captions and the story "A Week Awake" whihc recounts a harrowing bike ride is here.

Tom Milton rode a new out of the box development test saddle to start and finish Paris Brest Paris in 89 hours without any saddle issues to speak of. According to PBP organizers this was either the most difficult PBP in 50 years or in it's 116 year history. It rained every day and night. It was chilly. It was windy. Tom rode PBP self contained carrying his extra changes of cycling clothes, fowl weather gear, spare parts, other essentials, and emergency food stuffs in two small Ortlieb panniers.

If you attempted to qualify for PBP, qualified, or rode this fabled event on one of our saddles and did not receive one of our Limited Edition PBP 2007 Selle An-Atomica pins send us a padded, stamped, addressed envelop and we will return it with a free enameled pin.

  • Calfee Design Bamboo - "The new high tech frame material." Real bamboo tube sets assembled with hand wrapped lugs provide "The Quiet Luxurious Ride" by absorbing an excess of road noise & vibration before it reaches your body. These frames are carefully prepared and finished by expert craftsmen for bike frames of all types after ten years of analytic testing.

    Paris Brest Paris - Tom seen at left rode in comfort on a specially spec'd bamboo bike and finished PBP without any saddle discomfort even though he started on a new out of the box prototype test model. He did spend limited time along the road fine tuning various saddle adjustments and trimming a slot shape test.

    Photo on right: Davis Bike Club 600k brevet finished in blissful comfort April 2007.
    26+ hrs riding time. 31+ hrs elapsed time. 46+ hrs without sleep due to 8 pm start and nonstop ride.
    Maiden voyage article pdf     here.

  • CONGRATULATIONS to 2007 RAAM finishers riding Selle An-Atomica; Brenda Barnell, John Jurczynski, John Spurgeon, Patrick Autissier.

    Their testimonials: "I finished Boston Montreal Boston in record time on Selle An-Atomica Titanico LD Watershed saddle without any concerns for my bottom." "I started and finished RAAM on a brand new Selle An-Atomica Titanico LD Watershed saddle in 2006. My female naughty bits have never ridden so far without worries in such sublime comfort. Only wish these wonderful saddles were available when I rode BMB and PBP in years past."

  • Saddles Handmade in Wisconsin, USA.

    Our designs are not retro for retro's sake. The designs are the result of four years full time saddle R&D by an engineer cyclist and physician cyclist to objectively study the human anatomy in motion. Saddle design fundamentals evolved as our understanding of pelvic region dynamics improved through the analysis of numerous test models, hours of film analysis, and consultation of various physician specialists. See White Papers on the subject.

    Experience the Happy Bottom Riding Club. It is important to appreciate that the human body presents not two Joker wild cards found in a new deck, but an entire deck of wild cards. The marriage to the delicate pelvic basin region anatomy and asymmetrical boney points presents an extreme challenges. Consumer feedback is proving that our design is very accommodating, functional, comfortable in the extreme. We endeavor through customer service to help riders at all levels find comfort on their bike, this being a combination of a fundamentally good saddle design and ergonomics, good all around fit. To that end our saddles come with proprietary, illustrated adjustment procedures.

    The designs represent more than 4 years full time effort, >40,000 R&D test miles in all weather conditions and help from people too numerous to mention. We estimate 800,000 - 1,200,000 miles were ridden by consumers during 2005 with nearly 100% reporting surprising comfort, satisfaction and riding position improvements after following our special adjustment procedures shipped with each saddle. Our completely new designs also addressed suggestions riders have shared during 18 months of market study through limited sales of various handmade models.

    Color examples; black, red, mahogany, golden, brown.

     

     

     

    2007 New Years Bakers Dozen promotion. We will ship 13 saddles and or handlebar tape sets with every order for 12 of either. You can use the 13th saddle for a store demo model which sells saddles every time, or sell it as you would any of our products. Place an order today and specify Spring delivery if you prefer. Contact Us.

  • All Dealer Memos here.

  • New product for Dealer and Consumer sales: Bike Tote carrier systems racks. Designed by a long time cyclist. Simple, robust construction. Easy in & out of your pick up, SUV, van, or toy hauler. Beautifully handmade by physically handicapped technicians in Nebraska. Inquire.

  • New Knee Pain and Shoe / Foot FAQ discussions.

  • NEW 1 minute of August 2006 Test film short standard production Wisconsin Made Titanico LD Watershed, and Robusto LD, Settebello LD prototypes. 10 MB file size.

  • See NEW test film of our saddles in motion here. Scroll down the page.

  • OE Special Offer - Loan us a bike of choice with an order for 100 saddles or more and we will provide a road test evaluation of your product with photos and links on our B2B and Consumer web sites.

  • Read Titanico LD Second Skin Watershed™ leather 6 month test, consumer moderator review at mtbr.com 29er (two-niner), forum. Search "selle anatomica" and see Rainman's various postings including "Six Months on the Titanico." pdf version here.

  • New Limited Edition Ostrich Titanico LD saddles now available.

    Ostrich hide is available in three distinctive grain patterns:
    1. Quill, a stippled pattern with small circular marks in the hide where feather quills were.
    2. Striated, a crisscrossed linear pattern from sections of hide without feathers.
    3. Leg, can only be described as snake skin in appearance.
    Ostrich is wonderfully durable and abrasion resistant hide. Available in black and cognac pictured and special order colors.

  • June 2006 - Selle An-Atomica and Calfee Carbon tandem carry Team JDRF to 2006 Race Across AMerica Mixed Tandem class win - 3042.8 miles in 8 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes at an average speed of 15.37 mph! Press Release pdf here.

  • Selle An-Atomica completed the first year in limited release October 2005. An estimated 800,000 - 1,200,000 miles were ridden by consumers with nearly 100% reported comfort and satisfaction.

  • Interbike 2005 product launch. Click on the photo to see what you missed or remember what you saw!

Selle An-Atomica's completely new designs represent 4 years full time effort, > 40,000 R&D test miles in all weather conditions and help of people too numerous to mention.

 

Saddle features we are proud to announce;

  • M.I.T.E. - Molded Ischial Tuberosity Ellipses

  • Proprietary Second Skin Watershed™ leather*

  • Traditional high quality saddle aka, bridle leather

  • Patent 7,341,308 anatomic relief slots and laminate under layers

  • Flex-Fly™ support

  • 10cm range of adjustment on rails

  • Anatomic contoured low profile molded leather

  • Frame designed for comfort and functionality

    • rear saddle former reshaped to meet anatomic necessities

    • wire frame and nose former designed for flexibility between two pieces

    • easy access Allen wrench tension adjustment using your multi tool

    • saddle bag loops on all three frame widths

  • Five popular colors: black (60%), red (15%), mahogany (15%), golden (10%), brown (10%) (approximate sales %)

  • Second Skin Watershed™ leather Handlebar Tape in matching colors.

* An attribute of the Second Skin Watershed™ leather is it's more supple nature. This special process and product represents years of development effort by the tannery alchemists.

January 31, 2006 - Titanico models are SHIPPING NOW.

Our long anticipated original designs Made in USA represent more than 4 years full time R&D effort, more than 40,000 test miles in all weather conditions and help from people too numerous to mention. We addressed all the suggestions riders have shared.

A collaborative anatomic saddle design that provides essential pelvic basin region relief, conforms to your individual body shape, and moves with you while you ride. Designed for all humans during by Mr. Milton and Dr. Underhill.

Molded leather technology by Monarch-McLaren Ltd., Wisconsin USA.

We estimate 800,000 - 1,200,000 miles were ridden by consumers during 2005 with nearly 100% reporting surprising comfort, satisfaction and riding position improvements especially after following the proprietary adjustment procedures we ship with each saddle.

Consumers tell us we've designed and constructed the most comfortable and functional bicycle saddle they've ever experienced. The first year of direct consumer sales result in complete user satisfaction.

OEM's - Need a saddle that blissfully comfortable on first contact and is as good for your consumers anatomy as it can be? We've got what you need. We can't cut corners on the leather materials and we don't do cheap.

Saddle R&D confirmed 2003-'06 during completion of > 40 Double Century and brevet events. See 2004 ride results here, 2005 here. Customers have completed more of these events on Selle An-Atomica than we know.

Selle An-Atomica™ Flex-Fly™ Support. Comfort You Can Count On.™

Pediatrician & osteopath recommended for you and those you love. The Best for Your Body.™

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