It is completely obvious that the cycling action involves movement yet here we are 200 years on still trying to ride on a fixed saddle!

Nobody as yet has produced a product to cope with the movements in musculature and bone structures that occur when cycling.

Power Rider replaces the saddle allowing you to ride the bike in a free and different way.

Steady Steer takes advantage of the fact that when using Power Rider the bike travels a straighter path and steers the bike in a straight line without rider input.

Power Bike features these two inventions and has redesigned narrow steering lowered to the forks allowing continual low aerodynamic posture behind wind deflective fairing.

Power Bike has only one high gear with a reduction in weight and complexity made possible by Power Rider.

A 52 to 11 sprocket combo.

Further frame alterations may be possible. 

This is the first of what I have called a Power Bike.

HOW POWER RIDER WORKS.

Power Rider is best described as a moveable support rather than a seat or saddle because it moves with the rider for any movement, to provide support for any riding position.

It is a bilateral support with two seat parts that can move independently.

The basic concept is that the rider is balanced on, and movements occur around, a single pivot point that can move in any direction.

This is the basic or general purpose Power Rider with the pivot in rubber.The large seat parts are textured to grip the rider so there is no movement between rider and seat.

This is the Racing Power Rider using the similar principles but with a reduction in the size of the seat parts made possible because there is little sitting at full power..

This balance occurs:

-both forwards and backwards, on unique and comfortable seat parts, that turn on an axle;

-sideways across the bike by the axle pivoting in rubber;

-vertically on a spring and rubber suspension.

See the video of an earlier Power Rider that illustrates the basic unchanged principles at https://youtu.be/6iFO8rGNSds and see the Racing Power Rider at https://youtu.be/xF4mmBL4SSg

You can ride and balance on the bike like this because the force of riding occurs through the body's natural pivot point at the hips which acts directly in line with the axle and single pivot point.

Any movement is possible and unrestricted circular hip movements can occur.

The bike itself travels a straighter path since unlike fixed saddles, Power Rider moves with the rider, allowing free natural riding movements, and these rider movements are not transmitted to the bike frame.

As more power is applied, Power Rider rises under the action of the spring, because an increase of pressure on the pedals, results in a decrease in the downward weight pressure on the seat parts.

The ride on Power Rider therefore, becomes softer with any increase in power and it provides constant support for a gradation of positions that are determined by the power applied.

At a certain position the bike becomes easier to ride and movement of the seat parts is minimal.

This I believe is the optimum position for riding the bike. It cannot be obtained on the saddle because of the restriction of the nose.Note the higher riding position of Power Rider in the photo's.

At full power the rider is forced entirely backwards into the inclined Power Rider with little or no weight acting directly down.

The rider does not move backwards however, because as the seat parts rise, they increase in tilt to hold and force the rider forwards.

For racing it is possible to ride continually and comfortably on the down bars.

In this position and with the backwards force now dominant, the size of the seat parts can be reduced.

It is the ability of Power Rider to provide comfortable support in all riding positions and adjust for a change of force from a downward sitting force to a backwards riding force, or anywhere in-between, that makes Power Rider unique and I believe the best bike seat in the world.

If this information is insufficient for your purposes follow the text leads on the YouTube video or contact me at russell.bathard@gmail.com 

Since this video I have changed from a ball joint pivot, to a pivot in a metal hole, to now having the    axle pivot in rubber. The principle movements of the design are the same. Now with a greater understanding of how my design works I can now make a single simplified product to be ridden on any bike with exchange seat parts for racing. Details soon.

[A recent improvement and simplification for Steady Steer is to leave the bottom bearings in place and simply replace the top bearings with the rubber and conical washer.]