NSW Police choose Selle SMP

NSW Premier Kristina Kineally and the NSW Police bikes equipped with SMP

Selle SMP saddles will feature on the NSW Police 127 new Eagle Police Mountain Bikes which have been launched today.

These bikes are the first state-of the-art, custom made mountain bikes of their kind in Australia and each component has been handpicked and the frame designed to specifically for the needs of the police force.

To complement the new bike and as a testament to the great benefit of SMP design the NSW police force have chose to outfit their new bikes with Selle SMP Saddles.

Having survived a grueling test period with the officers of the NSW Police Force Bicycle Training and Coordination Unit the saddles passed the test to make it as an integral part of the final bike roll out.

The shape and construction of the SMP Extra saddle chosen for the bikes received excellent feedback from the riders at the launch today and not surprisingly given the saddles are the best performing when…

SMP at Tour of Flanders

Amore & Vita-Conad's Borisov at Coppi & Bartali

The North Campaign gets in the heart of the 94th Tour of Flanderson Sunday, April 4th. The SMP Saddles assured its place in the front line thanks to Footon-Servetto-Fuji. At start in Bruges (Belgium) there is the Pro Tour Team  directed by Mauro Gianetti and includes Fabio Felline, Manuel Cardoso, Matthias Brändle, Ermanno Capelli, Johnnie Walker, Vidal Celis, Michele Merlo and Tom Faiers.

Anyway, the activity of the team during the Easter weekend is very intensive one and is held in many fields. Besides  Fiandre, the Footon-Servetto-Fuji will open the campaign in Spain on Saturday, April 3rd . They will participate in the 12th Gp Miguel Indurain, Vuelta al País Vasco (5-10 April) and Klasika Primavera Amorebieta (Sunday, April 11th ). Next, there will be the stage race, the Presidential Tour of Turkey (11-18 April).

Meanwhile in Italy, the Continental Professional Amore&Vita-Conad and…

SMP in Australian Triathlete Magazine

more comfort and more power with SMP!

2010 NZ Ironman Champion Cameron Brown!

Cameron Brown 2010 NZ Ironman Champion

It was another exciting day for me yesterday as I took my 9^th Bonita New Zealand Ironman title, but things didn’t go my way for the first part of the race.

Conditions were fantastic for the 3.8km swim, flat calm waters greeted the 1300 athletes.  The professionals started 15 minutes ahead of the age groupers as darkness was just lifting.  I tried to get on the feet of Keiran Doe and Terenzo Bozzone, but Keiran blasted out of the blocks right from the cannon with Bozzone on his feet and I was left floundering in their wake.   Bozzone was able to stay with Doe for the first few kilometres, and I swam the 3.8kms completely on my own, so limiting my losses was the only consolation.   I thought I was a lot closer to them coming out of the water, until I heard over the PA I was four minutes down on Keiran and three minutes down on Terenzo.  This was not the start I had planned, but I was…

Ironman Cameron Brown attributes his fastest ever Marathon to riding his SMP saddle!

The 8 time NZ Ironman Champion has been using SMP since January and in his first Ironman riding an SMP saddle he felt the advantage of the saddle most strongly after getting off the bike leg where he was able to produced a stellar run leg to win his 8th NZ Ironman Title;

“Since using SMP, both at this year’s NZ Ironman and the NZ half Ironman Championships in January I had my best ever runs. I ran my fastest ever marathon this year at Taupo in 2:43... I am just getting off the bike in better shape.”

SMP saddles are designed around the body and the ergonomic shape is something Brown says has really made a big difference to his efficiency on the bike;

“I’m not moving around like on a normal saddle, on SMP you are able to sit in the one position the whole time and there is no changing back and forth…on other saddles you are always searching to try and stay comfortable and with SMP you…