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Two Built for Speed. Tom & his new Rivendell A. Homer Hilson gentleman's all purpose fast touring bike. The frames are made to Rivendell spec by Waterford in WI, not too far from Selle An-Atomica's saddle works. Bike features Shimano's new Ultegra SL group set with a Compact crank using 36 & 38 inner rings, 54 outer ring, our CD Titanium 11-28 10 Speed cassette, Wipperman SS chain, special XTR hub set for 135 mm rear spacing, DT Triple butted black spokes & nipples, Mavic Open Pro Ceramic rims, Continental GP 4 Season 700 x 28 tires, Ricthey Biomax Pro short shallow handlebars, Nitto 8 cm quill stem, Campagnolo Chorus Titanium seat post, crowned with Selle An-Atomica Titanico LD Watershed saddle & matching Watershed bar tape. Plant Bike fenders, Tubus rear rack, and Ortlieb luggage go on & off as needed. Break in ride was March 2008, Davis CA to Los Angeles, 600 miles in 4 days down the coast. Ride photos here.
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White Watershed Leather passes final tests during the challenging Central Coast Double May 10th. Pictured to right with Standard Laminate Copper rivets.
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White Ostrich now in stock. Available in quill pattern pictured and in smooth striated skin. All saddle now available with traditional copper rivets or our sexy new black rivets.
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Selle
An-Atomica to carry Joff Summerfield home to London from his sensational
round the world journey via USA, Helsinki, Moscow, & EU riding his penny
farthing (19th century style hi wheel bicycle)!
Photographed between Santa Cruz and Monterey, CA after 15,000 miles and
one year, ten months journey. 13 March, 2008
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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 0.001%. We introduced 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.
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XMAS PHOTO CONTEST, AND THE WINNER IS "
Wow,
it must have been that
cactus juice at the last rest stop!" by B. Dewolf 2007 El Tour
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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 CO˛ calculators for automobile & plane travel and home life. We can purchase 100% Tax Deductible Carbon Offset Credits after using the appropriate calculator.
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Another excellent Global Warming organization is Environmental Defense.
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NEW in 2008
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"Black on Black" We will introduce black rivets, available on any of our leather or Ostrich hide colors.
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Watershed leather Leg Straps in any of five regular leather colors.
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NEW Half Length Handlebar Tape sets to wrap from brake lever to bar end. Designed for bars with anatomic flat tops.
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Tom at Pt Reyes Lighthouse on a windy cold day
with Adrienne (photographer) for 2007 Santa Rosa 300k.
Calfee carbon tandem. Maybe the best riding tandem in the world. Touring
comfort at racing speeds.
PBP photos are really here. Took a while but it is finished. January 23, 2008.
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August 2007 - Selle An-Atomica conquers Paris
Brest Paris 1200km and Alpe d'Huez 4 days hence!PBP Distance Ridden 1233.6 km (766.5 miles). Elapsed Time 88 hrs 54 minutes. Riding Time approximately 70 hrs. Fastest Speed 61 kph.
Saddle customers continue to report finishing PBP with no saddle issues of consequence while nearly all other riders struggled to survive saddle sores with varying degrees of severity.
Photo
at left is Tom & company during a dry spell sometime Tuesday having
ridden through the night 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 32 hole 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. Go 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 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.
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Paris Brest Paris ride photos are here. Captions and the story "A Week Awake" are posted.
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Calfee
Design Bamboo
"The new high tech frame material." Real bamboo provides "the quiet
ride." These splendid frames are carefully handcrafted by experts
after ten years of analytic tests. 600k brevet finished in real comfort. 26+ hrs riding
time. 31+ hrs elapsed time. 46+ hrs without sleep due to 8 pm start and nonstop
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We've tested Topolino Revelation C19 wheel sets recently against Campagnolo Record/Mavic Open Pro wheels and Mavic Ksyrium SSL SC wheels over our 1/100 test course. This is a route with 100' of hard climbing elevation gain for every mile and washboard paving that pounds the wheel, bike, and rider as the miles pile up. We find that Topolino wheels absorb a remarkable amount of road noise & vibration and they a eerily quiet whether pedaling or coasting. Topolino wheels are extremely light weight, strong, stiff, and silent. They inspire confidence on the fastest technical downhill roads. They are so good they are spooky.
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Knee Pain and Shoe / Foot FAQ discussions.
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Calfee Design bamboo bikes details here.
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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.
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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.
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New Limited Edition Ostrich Titanico LD saddles. Available for purchase in the Saddle Shop.
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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!
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Weight Weenies take note: Stefan Behrens is the head of CarbonSports GmbH, maker of the most sought-after wheels in the professional peloton: Lightweight. "As far as I have experienced, the pros like the stiffness the most. Of course they like that they are very light and aero, but they don't care about the weight as much as some hobby riders do. They don't care if the set is 1100g or 1080g. They don't put them on the scale. When we sell to a hobby rider he will immediately put them on the scale. No pro rider will do that. All pro riders want the stiffness."
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Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, Our Letter to the Editor June 2005, Re Dr. Roger Minkow, Specialized, Gender Based Saddle Design - Female anatomy and bike saddle design.
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Mavic Ksyrium Wheel Bulletin: SF Bay Area cycling shops have seen a few incidents where these rims develop radial cracks running out from a spoke after about a year of use. I have a pair with more than 10,000 miles that developed the crack seen in this photo.
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The Physician and Sports Medicine Journal successfully excellent "bicycling" related articles.
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April 26, 2004 - MCM introduces it's Patent 7,341,308 Selle An-Atomica™, two years in the making.
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Tom's 2004 California Triple Crown Double Century Cycling, 2005 Double Century Ride Results - 10 finished & still smiling, 200 mile rides completed in comfort exclusively due to Selle An-Atomica™.
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US Dept. of Transportation, December 2002 - Bicyclists define the current trend in lifestyle fitness activities with 80,000,000 cyclists in the USA!
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Gourmet recipes for easy, healthy everyday living. This will grow with your participation.