JimSantee

Chamois? Don't you mean riding diapers? Chamois today are way too thick and reduce bike feel. I steer with my hips, not my bars. I want feel and response. Bike Chamois are only as thick as they are today because bike manufacturers only have two weapons in their advertising arsenal; light and fast... Light equals fast, but light equals discomfort and weakness as well. All this has caused saddle manufacturers to ignore materials and comfort as a whole. This has generated some really nasty saddles and some really thick short liners... You can put all the gaps and mesh and widen till the cows come home. It doesn't change the facts. Light saddles SUCK! Thick chamois SUCK! Let me help you industry fiends with some qualified legit common sense apparel design tips. 1. Industry leaders need to colab! Adopt a set of standards for chamois thicknesses and seat padding, so you can design saddles and liner shorts in unison. Make the padding levels in both thinner but better material. Offer a few options that make sense to consumers that don't know any better yet. This is 2023 not 2003, go to a material trade show once in while TLD and FOX I'm talking to you.... People that don't ride chamois, don't because they loose bike feel and hate the over thickness. This will never change until saddles change. Hargood tips: 2. Stop using HD foam in your high end saddles and move it to your low end saddles but combo it with memory or open cell foam. Put thinner layers of GEL in your high end saddles and compensate for the weight with carbon bases, rails and titainium rails. Just make the rail height appropriate to compensate for padding height. I ride sensible saddles, but feel like WTB could make a better saddle with the ingredients it already has... WTB you either sell 450 gram saddles that feel like a dream, but are made of the heaviest materials in the industry or 120 gram saddles that I like to call taint killers... Where is my 200 gram carbon and TI PURE wide with Gel dream saddle? Not the lightest but I would take the 80 g hit for gel in an ultra light swoop nose saddle any day of the week. If your lightest saddle and the Pure gel chro-mo got together and fucked, the offspring of those two saddles would be the best saddle you ever birthed....

This isn't cosplay... Dressing up and buying all the best shit comes with a price tag of time and hard work in this sport. Uber won't deliver self discipline, skills or fitness. Don't worry, I will be here to carpetbag your killer rig in two years. It will be virtually brand new, and my kids will enjoy shredding the shit out of it...

Another huge swing and miss for the scooby dumb club at specialized. It's bad... Really bad,,, It looks like a special ed helmet in a lego movie.... Does Tron know you stole his new proto type? It's not your fault. You just follow trends, and rider feedback from sponsored athletes that will tell you anything you give them is awesome, in an attempt to be more rider oriented. What's next? Banana seats? "It would look so cool"!!! You guys always do this... You just don't have a grip on the big picture, This thing totally smacks of design by comity... Looks like you just went through and took all the features off the product descriptions of a competitor and did as little work as possible to check all the boxes. New school designers, high visors TOTALLY kill the aesthetic of visored helmets and don't work!!! Huge Flat closed face, shield-like glasses are on-trend but totally in-practical. So, sorry, but it's true. They are too hot to ride in, so now helmets need to look totally dumb so people can hang their impractical glasses up when they climb? How did you get to this point? How did trail riding gear get to this point? What category manager said "OK, we are there".... One of your biggest weaknesses is not being able to fully connect with Mountain culture ON ALL CIRCUITS... Especially Enduro and DH... The bikes are there in many ways and that has really ramped up well and headed in the right direction, in a lot of ways. But you still always blow it in some way. You still make a few $10,000 bikes that still have many relatively mid end proprietary B+ parts.... I don't even want your tires on that level of bike for that price... But that is not even on your radar... Remember the Troy Lee Frames??? Ugh... The Camber? Your goofy gravel bike suspension... Does Huffy make that for you? SO SORRY TO BE SO HARSH, BUT YOU HAVE LOST YOURSELVES WITHIN YOURSELVES AND NEED TO HEAR THIS. DO YOU WANT PRACTICAL FEEDBACK AND REAL HELP FROM AN EXPERIENCED ACTION SPORTS APPAREL DESIGNER AND CONSULTANT THAT ACTUALLY RIDES? FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT,