Research and innovation

Our seats are unique products for their ergonomy, construction quality, technical performance, respect for environmental standards, and respect for product safety standards.

All these achievements are the fruit of constant investments in research and development, with a large boost starting in the 1990’s.

Since 2004 Selle SMP has extended its fame and increased the value of its name by successfully introducing the SMP4BIKE seat models on the market, fruit of countless studies and patents deposited worldwide, strongly innovative from the aesthetic and ergonomic points of view, able to entirely respect the anatomy of the human body and born from thorough research on the body-seat interactions of cyclists during all the phases of cycling.

'Designed on your body ' is the slogan coined to synthesize the values and innovative contents of this very high range production.

Since the introduction of the ergonomic seat, available in versions that cover the range of uses from city bikes to professional carbon bikes, it has been hugely successful, with direct testimonies from users, professionals and amateurs alike.

Apart from the study of ergonomic aspects, research focuses on materials, extensively introducing the use of carbon in order to join elastomechanic performance with lightness, and on the chemical characteristics of raw materials in order to assure compliance with increasingly stricter European standards.