Skeletal saddles: The Infinity bike seat

The Infinity seat might not be the first redesign of the traditional bicycle saddle to promise improved comfort, but it is arguably the best looking.

The elegant, skeletal-looking design is the brainchild of Dr Vincent Marcel, a chiropractor and triathlete. While researching for the project, Marcel trawled patents on bicycle seats dating back to the dawn of cycling in the late nineteenth century and noticed that, barring a few creative departures, they had remained effectively the same.

A traditional bicycle seat places the rider’s weight onto the so-called ‘sit bones’ and pubic bones, causing pinching and discomfort, which in turn decreases performance and endurance.

The Infinity Seat might look like a saddle-shaped cookie cutter, but the seemingly uncomfortable design cleverly distributes the rider’s weight onto the body’s natural shock absorbers - the muscle mass of the buttocks.

Judging by the runaway success of the Infinity Seat on crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, expect it at your local bike shop sometime soon.

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