Landyachtz's Reformable Carbon Fiber Seat - Interbike 2017
 |
 |
Body-specific seat shapes came on like gangbusters a handful of years ago, and for good reason: our behinds are all a little different, especially when it comes to the span of our sit bones. A lot of companies offer seats of different widths for this reason, and there are even a few options out there to have a seat molded to match your rear end.
Landyachtz, the Vancouver company well known for their longboards and urban bikes, is taking it to another level with their Reform heat-moldable seat.
 |
From the outside, the Reform looks a lot like any other high-end seat - it has a classy looking leather cover, a carbon fiber base, and feels pretty damn light when it's in your hand. It is only when you flip it over and see the large open reliefs in the carbon shell, and then the tiny, magnetized USB port under the nose, that you start to think something else is going on here.
Hidden between the beeswax-treated leather top and the carbon fiber shell is a lightweight electronic coil system that's hooked up to that USB port, and when your certified local bike shop plugs in the heating element, it takes just five minutes for the coils to heat the internals enough for them to be molded to your ass. The idea is that you'd have your bike on a trainer in the shop and spin on it for a few minutes for the seat to take its shape, then wait fifteen more minutes for it to cool down and retain that imprint.
Landyachtz says that you will be able to reform the seat a handful of times, although it should only take one go to get it right, and they equated the process to having a pair of ski boots fitted. Weights run from 215-grams to 245-grams depending on the model and, as you probably guessed, these Vancouver-made seats are not inexpensive, costing $299 USD. They're just down the road from Pinkbike's HQ, and I'll be visiting them for a fitting and to see how the process goes down, so stay tuned for a look at how they do it.
Author Info:
Must Read This Week
Sign Up for the Pinkbike Newsletter - All the Biggest, Most Interesting Stories in your Inbox
PB Newsletter Signup
Disclaimer: I've been blessed with a pretty consistent weight for a long time, so I may be totally wrong.
PS.
E bikes are here to stay whether you like it or not!!
Still cheaper than a pair of high end flat pedals from CB.
And skiing is ridiculous. A winter season pass at my local mountain is ~$1000. That's for a few months of lift service without any idea of how good of a winter it will be. And I'm complaining while also contemplating which credit card to put that season pass on....
I'm picking up trail running as my next hobby I think. I can't handle all of these expensive hobbies.
There is no such thing as a cheap hobby if you are the type of person to always go all in.
Makes a custom saddle fit look cheap.
It's starting...
Legit question.
Why do you think vital content is only videos and pictures ?
If it yields where the hard spots pressure the carbon that just means the other soft spots that don't make the carbon yield start to take more pressure than they should.
I think I'll trust seat companies for seats and I'll trust skaters for... very little actually. Being dicks to bikers at the skatepark?
Ya I can definitely count on them for that.
Chromag moon all the way.
Oh hahaha
You're one of those a*sholes hey?
Remember when skateboarding was a crime?
Do you see the irony in you excluding other user groups from enjoying a publicly funded facility like a skate park now that they're being built everywhere?
They're just called skateparks. But the fact is everyone can and should enjoy them.
Sounds like bullshit segregation to me.
You wanna raise your kids that way?