Wove was born out of a desire to create a better bicycle saddle.
Working with David Simmons of Simmons Racing and Craig Edwards of EEcycleworks, we’ve created a saddle with a one-piece shell and rails construction that surpasses ISO safety standards, is lightweight yet well cushioned and that provides comfort and performance in any position, at any speed. Our name, Wove, represents how our team has been woven together to create high quality cycling products.
Wove saddles are designed and manufactured in the United States. Our headquarters is in Boulder, CO where we log huge miles in the surrounding mountains with fellow cyclists and pro athletes who provide us with critical feedback and race our products onto the podium.
In the early 2000’s, my pro cycling roommates explained that after 90 minutes of riding, they’d go numb and saddle discomfort was no longer an issue. This just wasn’t going to cut it for me, so I was thrilled when Pruitt designed the first Body Geometry saddle. It was a tank, but I put aside my weight-weenie ways for soft-tissue relief. Future saddles continued to reduce saddle discomfort so that I could focus on the hard work of cycling without the saddle discomfort adding unnecessary pain that only hindered my goal-attainment. But, the discomfort was still there, so we designed a saddle that allows you to be comfortable in any position at any speed. Wove was born out a desire to limit discomfort to the discomfort that we choose because it benefits our future-selves and goals.
While our name, Wove, is a pretty obvious reference to the carbon fiber weave on our saddles, Craig Edwards suggested the name Wove because of how our team came to be: we cold-contacted David Simmons in 2015 after being impressed with his 100% custom carbon fiber cycling shoes and we started discussing product ideas by text. Later, Craig Edwards was cold-contacted to talk about his eecycleworks brakes and those awesome crank deflection tests he conducted for Fairwheel Bikes. They were both more than open to the conversations and we’ve stayed in touch practically daily ever since.
We dove into UX research to understand the needs of thousands of cyclists; how their shorts interacted with their saddle; where they felt pressure and rubbing. We then spent years collecting user feedback on dozens of prototypes from pro athletes to get the shape just right and we dug deep to test the indentation load deflection of dozens of foam mixtures to get the firmness just right. We’ve taken this evidence-based approach to create a comfort-first lightweight saddle.
All aspects of Wove have been kept in-house, from manufacturing to design to branding. This decision has allowed us to iterate, fail, and learn. With in-house design, we reeled in our shotgun design approach and learned from Craig Edwards’s convergent design thinking approach. With in-house manufacturing, we leveraged David Simmons approach to addressing one issue at at time, from the one-piece shell and rails to the foam and cover material; failing, learning, perfecting.
Thank you for your support
Nick, David, Craig and Matthew
