Beginning with an Innovative Seatpost 

In 1975,Charlie designed a very light, adjustable seat post with a machined magnesium head attached to thin, high-grade aluminum tubing. That year he manufactured twenty five seatposts with his father’s lathe and drill press.

Charlie set up equipment to test seatpost fatigue and confirmed that his post, despite being a significantly lighter, outlasted competing designs. He built 25 more seatposts, and began selling them through word of mouth, plus shipped one to Bicycling Magazine, where it was photographed and reviewed.

fatigue testing equipment