MANTA Bicycle Saddle

Ride as far as you like – no pain, no seat imprint
Surface mobility promotes a 360° pedal motion
The Manta™ technology gives a fluid ride
A natural seating area – while peddling

MANTA Design Update

Spring-summer, was not an ideal time to fall down stairs, and for our new riders. We had a move (bereavement), a temporary, unsuitable facility, and reorganizing, to establish a sales Co. Jon’s added a range of options, he’s safer doing that. Design, prototyping, (all) development, IT, machinist, finishing, assembly, dispatch… everything physical, including breaking his ankle on Kyle Coop’s notorious concrete stairs. “Downhilling”, Jon called it.

He was moving MANTA headquarters, ready for a new base, fetched more parts, rushed the steps, and was “surprised by the amount of gravity the Coop steps has”. His ankle seemed fine after 3 days, then swelled again, far worse, inflamed his entire nervous system, from the leg-up. Jon does nothing by halves.

The ‘about’ page mentions that ceasing his building (Dr’s advice he barely followed), recently, path building (loved it, inc intense weather), project management, ‘making stuff’, time, and silence, was ‘the mother of invention’, an opportunity. Being a sculptor, and engineer, he favours forms that are kinetic, like buildings, paths, and bicycle saddles.

Jon gets thoroughly bored, something had to happen, back then, but he overdoes things. Anyway, he now approaches his ‘normal’, so we’ll update on here, etc., etc…

PLAN A was to expand externally (we had major false-starts, and learned caution), MDSL was not intended as a full-scale marketing, sales, retail organisation, we do development, and manufacture, the technology is ripe, and ready to fly, a “NEOMANTA” gets an opportunity.

THERE MAY BE DELAYS FOR ANOTHER MONTH, this will be updated…

We are focussed on summer shipments, we can accept enquiries and pre-orders (avoiding Kickstarter), until these are cleared, and we hand over to sales. By all means, enquire as to availability.

NEC Cycle Show, 2025 MANTA are invited, we hope Jon will be guesting.

Ref, our: “ABOUT US” page for context.

NEW! A Gallery, test pages, Jon again, MANTA’s ex-home

Manta is the difference

Be cool and comfortable

Distinct from other saddles, we don’t rely on sit bones, and a nose, to support the rider’s weight.

With advance in medical technology, we have greater understanding of how we are affected. A great deal of research has been conducted on the effects of cycling on riders, with a focus on the saddle, the weakest link in an otherwise healthful and joyful activity.

Any pressure on the perineum is too much, so remove the nose! Sure, but the support you remove, needs replacing.

Numerous studies link the use of traditional saddles with even long-term damage to areas involving the perineum, which were not evolved to take a human’s bodyweight, around 7x bodyweight riding over potholes, kerbs, speed bumps, etc.

Riders are now more aware of problems caused by saddles, negative health impacts that were simply tolerated, for so long.

The Manta has a dynamic surface, in harmony with rider’s limbs.

This allows for a multiplying of the support area away from the pudendal area, alleviating pressure points, allowing increased blood flow, with benefits, on and off the bike – and your backside won’t feel like it’s been on a bike, however many miles you ride.

The design provides not just a reduced-decrease of bloodflow compared to other seats, the Manta provides a measurable, significant increase in blood flow, during riding, generally, an increase such as is found in sports, other than cycling.

By optimizing the base connection between rider and bike, a Manta removes pain that can affect stamina. This is very relevant for static bikes, and e-Bikes, and removes the urgent need to dismount to avoid numbness, and recover butt composure.

reimagined cycle seating