The bicycle saddle has been the dominant means of positioning the rider on a bicycle since the bicycle was invented. No-one before has come up with a way to support the rider's weight while simultaneously allowing the action of pedaling.  The saddle is a compromise. It is cut away at the sides to permit pedaling, but provides for a very small surface area of support on the rider's body. Worse, the area this force is applied to is anatomically sensitive and was never intended by nature to be load bearing. The technical development of saddle technology has stalled and cries out for innovation!

Our Story

Mr. Mark Botkin, inventor of the Prairie Wing, has been cycling most of his life. With age, the ability to adapt to or "get used to" saddle seats diminished, threatening to curtail the riding adventures that were and continue to be so important to his personal well being.. On the purchase of a new bike, he observed that the saddle provided was, if anything, even worse than any saddle he had previously ridden. The saddle was very hard and it was obvious that the rider was intended to wear padded shorts. This did not sit well (bad joke alert) with Mr. Botkin, so he decided to do something about it. The bench seat is much better adapted to the sitting human than any saddle, but a fixed bench seat does not permit an unrestricted pedaling motion. Mr Botkin decided that the answer lay in a bench seat that moves with the rider. It spreads the rider's weight over a much larger area, removes the pressure on sensitive anatomy, and at the same time permits the rider to turn a complex reciprocal leg motion we call pedaling into rotary motion to propel the bicycle. Hence was born the Prairie Wing.

Feedback from a wide swath of riders of all ages has been universally positive. The baby boom generation will benefit as a group more than any other because it will allow many individuals who have trouble with saddles or have given up altogether to get back on their bikes, with all the mental and physical health benefits that ultimately profit us all. The e-bike revolution has just started in North America, and the Wing seat is very well adapted to this demographic.