The Manta Saddle

[HLaB]

I cam accross this in the local paper. It might be very comfortable but I don't think the Olympic cycling team will be rushing out to buy it as the designer hopes.

http://www.mantamedia.org/

 

[Fnaar]

I hope the inventor hasn't re-mortgaged the house to get it on the market!

 

[snakehips]

'Wonderfully wacky' , indeed

 

[mickle]

There's a long history of designers arrogantly or naively imagining that their 5 second brain wave will overturn a century of incremental trial and error and refinement. Phil Starck, Guigaro, Sinclair, Mark Newson. All failed dismally. So will this piece of crap. If he had bothered to research the subject he would have found one or two very similar pieces of crap which also completely failed to have any impact on the market.

Clearly not an up to date cyclist either as his computer model has the front brake cable running through the stem a la 1985 Muddy Fox.

 

[Brock]

It looks pinchy.

 

[Fiona N]

It looks just the thing to provide good blisters on the unmentionables - one wonders how much the inventor actually cycles

 

[mr_hippo]

Very similar to http://http://hobsonseats.stores.yahoo.net/easyseat.html
I bought one, tried it and could not get used to it.