About MoonSaddle Bike Seat

MoonSaddle Bike Seat - The First Noseless Bike Saddle

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND IT ALL

The MoonSaddle™ inventor – Dennis Bell, a distant cousin of Alexander Graham Bell – experienced a problem – discomfort and numbness. While working as a consultant for a company in California, he needed some exercise, so he went to a yard sale and purchased a used bicycle. He rode his used bike to work and various beaches in the area.

The original bicycle from the yard sale
Having had medical training as a navy corpsman, he understood the human anatomy. He envisioned how the body addresses a traditional bicycle seat. It reminded him of the old adage about “getting ridden out of town on a rail” – a not-so-comfortable experience for someone who disrupted a community’s peace.

He remembered that the human butt in general has two parts – the perineum (soft tissue lying between the anus and reproductive organs) and ischial tuberosities (sits bones). Traditional bike saddles put the weight on the perineum. By riding his bike while standing only on the pedals, the pain and numbness did not occur, so he knew the problem had to be the saddle.

professional cyclist using moonsaddle seat at beartooth pass on cross country bike ride

Barry Falcon “Tried and True”

Barry has logged over 60,000 miles since 2008 on a MoonSaddle™ noseless bike seat.

skeleton of pelvis sitting on moonsaddle bike seat

The vision...

On a Sunday afternoon, he envisioned a new saddle concept that puts the rider’s weight on the sit bones rather than the perineum. That vision created the MoonSaddle™ design – a bike saddle without a nose. It had horns, but they faced backward instead of to the front. His new saddle mainly contacted the sit bones, not the perineum. He took a piece of wood and carved out the first MoonSaddle™.

He purchased an old leather football at another yard sale and used it as a skin for his new saddle. The texture of the football gave him the proper texture for his new saddle. Having considerable knowledge of polymeric systems (resins, epoxies, expanding polymers, etc.), he used the wood and leather pattern to make a mold. Thousands of MoonSaddles™ later, his patented design has stood the test of time.

Management Team Members

  • dennis bell inventor of moonsaddle bike seat

    DENNIS BELL

    Member, New Light LLC

    • Inventor of Grid Defender®
    • 60 plus US patents, over 45 in production to date
    • Founder and designer of MoonSaddle™ bicycle saddles
    • Founder of Bell and Carlson Gunstocks, Mentor, Bell & Whitten Gunstocks
    • Founder of Bell Design Corp.
    • Designer of total and state-of-the-art manufacturing systems
    • Veteran United States Navy
    • Broad education in areas of engineering and science
    • Recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell award Most Prolific Inventor
  • adda bell wife of moonsaddle inventor dennis bell

    ADDA BELL

    Member, New Light LLC

    • University of Montana
    • Bilingual
    • Medical and Dental department management
    • Creative and artistic
    • Connoisseur of native gourmet cuisines
    • Full manufacturing knowledge for MoonSaddle™