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The Levitate Chamois
The idea showed up while I was tuning my mountain bike suspension. A traditional cycling chamois bottoms out — it compresses all of its foam at once and drops you right onto the saddle. I wanted one that behaved like good suspension: holding the rider in the middle of the foam's travel, levitating them off the saddle.
To get there I developed a testing method to quantify how each material supported load, hand-picked foams by density, and used specific layering techniques to keep the pad in its sweet spot under real riding loads. Then I logged hundreds of miles on prototypes at our factory in Italy until it was right.
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