ABOUT

Here at RACE Components, our main concern is that a true All-Mountain, All-Trail Mountain Bike should always be able to lower to less then 2 inches (50mm) from the rails of the seat to the top of the frame seat tube.  This lowest position gives the rider the greatest control over the bike while riding down steep, rocky terrain.  With the seat fully lowered, a person can have fun twisting through challenging terrain and jumping off medium rocks, rather then worrying about getting bucked onto them.  

But we are also about riding the full range of trail challenges like tackling uphill sections or cruising the flatter terrain.  To this end of gaining maximum efficiency and power we think the seat should be able to raise itself up the standard 10 inches (250-265mm) and then be pre-adjustable to instantly stop less then that, by any amount, to set a persons exact, maximum height. 

Other "on-the-fly" seat posts also have an overall length of 400mm but only partially adjust "on-the-fly" up to 150mm, with 100mm used to stabilize the post within the frame.  150mm of the other adjusting posts are not "on-the-fly" yet it is further used for setting the riders max height, which then considerably lifts up the lowest possible adjusting height.  Once the maximum preferred height is set on other posts, the seat no longer fully lowers.

We are very glad to have achieved our goal of designing a highly reliable system that has a Full-Range of height capacity, put together with our max height pre-adjust system, that enables our post to always fully lower to less then 2 inches (50mm), from the seat rails to the bike frame.

Austin Walsh has teamed up with General Product and Gear Co. to form RACE Components.  GP&G Co. is a high precision engineering and manufacturing group that has worked with numerous robotic and aeronautic companies.  Austin Walsh is the developer of the main patents and designs for the RACE 10 Seatpost, with GP&G Co. bringing in their extensive capacity to engineer for manufacture, prototype and build.

About the Products Developer 

Austin Walsh began cycling in BMX and after years of training he managed to get on a racing and freestyle team in Tokyo called Fast Racing. While on team Fast Racing, he learned many great maneuvers like mid air 360's and riding backwards. The entire team also managed to get on one of those abusively funny Japanese game shows, where they had to ride bikes over giant cardboard boxes.  

Returning to the states, Austin got into mountain biking for the increased challenges of mixed terrain.  Missions to Moab and many other spots in the U.S. with adventurously rocky trails proved to take riding to the next level.  Stopping at the tops and bottoms of trails, to raise up or fully lower the seatpost, slowed down the ride and caused a valuable loss of momentum.  The quick-release seat clamp was not fast enough, and with all the technical marvels in the world, a seatpost that would rapidly change height, from fully lowered to fully raised with almost instant locking anywhere in-between, should be, able to be, figured out.

With a degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology and a second degree in Industrial Design from Mass College of Art and Design, the next mission was  to create the worlds first 8 plus inch adjusting seatpost.  

After many prototypes and a patent approval, Austin started RASE (Rapid Adjust SEatpost).  The RASE Seatpost worked quite well and even won first place in a seatpost shootout in Mountain Bike Magazine where it was called "The Whopper Dropper" with its 8.5 inches of height adjustment.  Yet, Austin knew the ideal MTB seatpost would be even lighter, even stronger, even more dirt proof and have the Full Range Capability that would always be able to lower to the ultimate min. height of less then two inches.  He left RASE to develop a new adjusting seatpost that would truly do everything a MTB cyclist would want.  

After a couple years of designing and prototyping, the mechanics were developed that would perform all the required features and more.  With a number of patents passed, Austin teamed up with GP&G Co. to develop the RACE 10, the worlds first, truly Full-Range Seatpost.