Dear Customer,

The JRCarri.com bike seats are handmade by its designer and inventor Juan R. Carrillo. He is from the Alps of Texas in the Big Bend area of Alpine and Davis Mountains. Since he acquired a patent for his bicycle seat in October of 2000, he has not seen a month without any form of progression, from working on his dotcom to developing a better saddle to even attending mountain and road bike races and tours. Perhaps not renowned and exotic events but area wide events that he refers to as, "proving grounds" for a better saddle.

He has a collection of the saddles worked on over the years showing that he just won't quit. His love and enjoyment of cycling has been enhanced by his bike saddle. He has evolved his saddle to a high end component, where he says his JRC-1 saddle is now. He has even placed well at both mountain and road bike races. He knows this saddle is a winner for any rider wanting to ride for health, recreation, and racing. The change from a traditional shaped seat to this unique seat is one that will be worth while in the long run.

Below are a few events along with trail critiques that the inventor has attended and ridden upon while riding the www.JRCarri.com bike seat.

Chupacabras 100 K MTB Race 2007; October 13, 2007 by Juan Carrillo

The Chupacabras 100K for 2007 was just plain awesome! For those who don't know where this mtb race is held it is in Juarez, Mexico just across its brother city of El Paso, Texas. These metropolitan twin cities feed about 75% of the 2,000 plus mountain bikers that slowly accumulate at the start between 6:30am till the last few seconds countdown to 9am. The big bundle of joyous riders set off in one big mass start! This "category free, free for all" makes its own categories thereafter as the mass field disperses along a stretch of dirt road and dikes beside the Rio Grande.

This year I hung in with the front peleton, better prep'ed physically but equipment wise I should have packed a presta valve air pump and an additional extra tube. Anyway, be careful it gets crowded and O'nry with riders wanting to make their way even closer to the front.

My advise is that if your up with the front pack just be patient because there is still plenty of time to disperse even more on this extensive initial stretch of dirt road. So remain steadily in your lane and move through the pack without any sudden carelessness. Be a gentleman and announce "pista" or "Aye Le Voy Amigo" which means that you're coming through and move forward in a calm but advancing fashion.

The weather was great, sunny and hot as is characteristic of El Paso/Juarez. I kept up with the front 50 or so till I had a flat... What I thought was going to be a simple fix turned into a 30 minute ordeal. Which began when I had to stop again to reinflate my tire for a better psi, but in the course of removing my CO2 the presta valve got stuck, I got desperate and I yanked off my presta stem with it, which ruined my one and only backup tube...! Oh well, have you ever had that feeling of "what am I going to do now" out in the middle of nowhere (like hitch-hike or start walking out on the highway), that's what it felt like...!Thanks to two Crazy Cat Cyclery riders that were taking a break on a rock bed just a ways up the trail, I was able to get a presta pump from them and then finally bummed off a tube from a kind gentleman passerby. Thank you guys for the good summaritan and sportsmanship spirit that we all bring to one another. God Bless...I'll be happy to return the favor to any rider in need this year.

Overall I looked at the bright side, I was still okay for a jersey, being that they are given to the top 500 out of the 2 thousand plus participants; even then, I still came in in good ranking at 140th place. La Bajada Del Diablo made up for it with its steep awesome descent down a winding dusty stairway like trail where some riders would rather run down (as I did last year) than take on the challenging and technical manuevering it offers, wow! While on this Diablo's descent, one rider behind me hollered in Spanish, "Da le con confiencia!" which means "ride down it with confidence"; I guess I was too careful for him and he was in a hurry, so I suggested he pass and unusually enough after he passed me he fell just a few yards in front of me(he was ok, his ego a little humbled though cause he knew what he just said...you can imagine...I just made an encouraging comment). Too much fun...just doing it for this descent is enuff...The single track after La Bajada Del Diablo is fast because it is at a slight or gradual descent, this is followed by even longer gradual descending dirt road back into Juarez. It was just plain fast and furious and where I spent my last bit of energy. Anyway till next year! A dios! jrc

Mas O Menos 100 K MTB Race in Terlingua, February 2007

This years 2007 Mas O Menos was a huge success for the JRCarri.com team (me, myself and I)and I'm sure for Race Director Mike Long, as they have reported the best turn out yet. My placing in 4th place was no easy task, but the best I've done so far. To add to my website theme of the JRCarri.com bike seat, I can only attribute it to the saddle's awesome ergonomics and duration potential, free of lower back pain.

My category 40-45 was off to an unfortunate start as one of our Cat riders took a spill along the initial jeep road stretch where the field does disperses but not enough to allow a herd of riders to execute a rock gravel infested turn without the necessary caution. The turn's outer rim of wash out was just over a foot in depth, and you don't want to ride into that ditch lest you nose dive into the path of oncoming riders. A pre-ride of what's around the corner would be advisable, especially if you anticipate riding through there at a fast pace. The trail is of course Awesome! The gravity and flow is well dug and fine tuned by 100 K's past. Do hydra pak especially for this 100 K that can suck every last ounce of you. Thanks to the great crew at Desert Sports residing in the badlands of Terlingua, Texas.

Chupacabras 100 K MTB Race in Juarez, October 2006

The Chupacabras 100 KMS race is a mountian bike race held annually in Juarez, Mexico. This year was a my first time competing in this one of kind 100 K challenge. It claims to change you and I believe that it can especially when you do the event for the first time. 100 K's are more of a vision quest to me, especially if you've done it for the first time, it definitely had a unique spirit about it; it's a subconscious, cultural archetype that attracts so many to the challenges of the desert wilderness. Like the ascent up Christo Rey in El Paso which has you go through some degree of suffering before asking God for forgiveness. Be prepared to ride and draft throughout the first hour and a half as you race down a dirt service road along the Rio Grande lined with outskirt highway traffic, alley ways and backyards, a sidewalk portion, port of entry bridges, many urban features with occasional spectators urging you on with the words, "Etchale Mas!" and "andele,andele, dele!". The first hour of riding is a great opportunity to disperse the field of 600 to 800 riders before hitting the single track in the mountains southwest of Juarez.

And on into the mountains, where begins a combination of jeep road and single track that includes numerous creek beds, Los Escalones de King Kong and other cool climbs, a Chapel with a Priest sprinkling holy water on passing riders, a Tigua Indian drum beat that fades at about where the most unique feature of all begins; at the "Subida de la Asfixia" which is a long, grueling hike up a trail lined with dismounted riders. Literally the riders at the top will look like ants from below and your ego will feel like an ant at about the half way point. Thereafter, as you thank God for a descent, don't thank Him yet, because "La Bajada del Diablo" is a steep descent that rattles your energy after the previous hike just took it.

I began to bonk out just prior to La Subida hike, and was earlier riddled with calve and hemstring cramps, all signs of a lack of long ride preps prior to the race. I came in my usual top 10 to 20%. My friend Kevin came in 37th and Mark in 112th.

Anyway, it was an awesome experience, my best goes out to the race organizers and volunteers who put this event on every year for the past 12 years. Juarez is a friendly community filled with wonderful and helpful people. And Bah-Hum-Bug to all the anti-border, culture, critic weinies who are blinded by crime stats and other news worthy political hog wash. Where's the news on teamwork and organization as is demonstrated in this event? I tell you one thing, I would rather be walking the streets of Juarez than some parts of Houston and New York.

Mas O Menos 100 K 2006

The 2006 Mas O Menos 100 Kilometer mountain bike race had a great turnout. The weather was chilly, as is every year in the mornings, but this years chill remained throughout the day. My category of 100 K riders consisted of 43 riders which only 25 or so riders completed the course.

The start of the race was fiercely fast as we all raced down the jeep road stretch in efforts to make it to the single track with the least amount of riders to have to pass. So the start becomes crucial for some riders that are racing for the top finishing spots and for others its the idea of starting and preserving energy for the duration. 100K and 50K riders were all started together which added to the chaos of whose racing who, and whose gotten ahead can pretty much be a 50K rider confused for a 100K rider. 50K riders don't have to do two laps so there off pretty fast. Anyway the start did peel off the ego sort off speak and got me down to the reality of the challenge ahead.

On top of that, I was recovering from a bronchitis/croupe coughing spells and the fierce start was the last thing I needed. My throat was tightening and dry and my croupe breathing demands were intense with very little breath left for the hydra-pak mouth piece. I think I could have done a little better without the bronchitis I was battling. Thank God I went and got a penicillin shot earlier that week. I'm what you call in Spanish, "Muy Amachon" or stubborn, where as some would have dropped out given that I was feeling under the weather, I'm proud to say I didn't though.

The times were kinda slow this year given cold weather, trail powder traps due to no rain. The trail was exciting, many scenarios cross you as you see other riders go through this experience first hand during the second lap when most riders are bonking out and the self and humility is in the forefront. Then again there's others who have prepared well and never come off the ego trip throughout the whole 100 kilometers.

I also gave away first place coupons to all 9 riders that came in first in the 100K. Hopefully some pretty good riders can bear the name JRCarri.com while they ride. Hope they saddle up with it though, this is probably the hardest part. Thanks Mike Long for allowing that...now to send those saddles off since most coupons have been received. But that's another story, but who wants to hear about a lowly budget. Oh by the way I came in 7th in the 40's category (am I really this old?)with a time of 5:32 minutes.

First place finishers for the 100K:

Open Pro Catergory Billy Kurtz 4:14:30, 19-29 Cat. Michael McCalla 4:23:34, 30-39 Cat. Joel Grimmett 4:44:30, 40-49 Cat. Peter Stewart 5:03:00, 50-99 Cat. Rick Sederberg 5:26:39, Womens Open Cat. Christina Smith 5:22:58, 19-29 Cat. Lisa Hartman 03:11:15, 30-39 Cat. (Category link is broken at the TMBRA results), 40-99 Cat. Lisa Nye-Salladin 6:15:32. Other results go to TMBRA Mas O Menos 100K results

Mas O Menos 100 K 2005

Fort Davis Hammerfest 2005

Below are the top ten overall 3 stage time total from the Pro 1 and 2 Category:

1 Michael Olheiser #N/A 4:34:40, 2 David Wenger Team Hotel San Jose 4:35:52, 3 Eduardo Vicencio HealthMax 4:38:37, 4 Matt Seagrave FCS Cycling Club 4:39:09, 5 Peter Knoop #N/A 4:39:17 0:49:23, 6 Sol Ethan Frost Team Brain & Spine 4:39:26, 7 Jaime Gandara Cycling Center/Bio Racer 4:39:32, 8 William Ross Team Hotel San Jose 4:39:53, 9 Brian Wyrick Wichita Falls Bicycling Club 4:40:21, 10 Fred (Robbie) Robinette Team Hotel San Jose 4:40:32.

More details can be seen at www.peytonsbikes.com or www.JRCarri.com

Fort Davis Hammerfest 2004

The Fort Davis Hammerfest 2004 was a proving ground for the www.JRCarri.com road bike seat. Just a month before the Hammerfest I was stumped on actualizing a saddle I had in mind and on the drawing board. Persistence and imagination developed a method resulting in the DuraSport and ProElite bike saddles. Riding in the Category 5 consisted of 3 stages: a time trial, a 10 mile long hill climb with about 1.5 miles of it consisting of a 15 grade incline, and a long and final stage the following day. My time from last year were broken in all stages which placed me 7th overall. I rode with the top 7 riders in my category and enjoyed the inline drafting, climbing and many descents of this course in the Davis Mountains. During the final stage race on Sunday the leading 6 riders plus myself did not let up, some tried advancing ahead but immediately dropped back, meaning the pace was maxxed out, the final and long descent was topped at 43 mph which proved that I must not be a good descender because the group got about 75 yards ahead. But my slight slow down on the descent saved me enough energy to catch up and take the lead on an already tired group. For the next 2 miles before the finish I took the lead. Afterwards a few riders wanted to try out the seat.

Mas O Menos 100K 2004

Desert Sports of Texas located in the Terlingua/Lajitas area have created an Awsome experience...every course is unique in itself but this one goes the distance with two laps at 32 miles and an awsome combination of features from an extensive climb of Las Tres Minas, to spin thirsty creek sand pits, hardtail rattling caliche, technical single track, a fast stretch of road and single track, desert beauty that is alive with challenge. To me it is not a race between you and the other guy but between you and yourself...

Chain Breaker 2003 by JRCarri.com

This year's Chainbreaker mountain bike race in Lubbock was as enjoyable as it was last year, maybe more. I did the 30 to 39 sport category consisting of 15 riders and where I placed 2nd and just 10 seconds behind the 1st place finisher. The first lap went well as I kept an eye on the riders ahead while on single track, so long as the pace was steady, no passing was necessary. I remained without passing until we hit the jeep roads where I passed a few riders and felt good pacing behind the lead riders. By the third lap I had the lead and was chasing two riders from the expert group, when all of a sudden, a rider rattling fast behind me began to gain and soon enough passed me and continued to gain ahead even past the expert riders. He was like a 100 yards ahead all throughout the single track till we hit the jeep road straight away where I poured it on passing the expert riders and gaining gradually upon the first place spot when the race ended. Wow! Close but no first place cigar. Their were two dismount worthy features while the rest was hardtail rattling single track and jeep road. Chain Breaker 2003 Results

Ft Davis Hammerfest Race 2003 by J.R. Carrillo

The Fort Davis Hammerfest Race in April 2003 was my first road race. I gathered alot of insight into the road riding potential of the J.R. Carri Seat. It evolved a new outlook that lead me to include the Why Performance section to my website, please read and believe that this seat is the ultimate road rider's seat. The race consisted of three stages. Firstly an out and back 16 mile time trial; secondly, a 15 mile mix of ascents consisting of climbs from hilly to tedious durations from Ft Davis to the Observatory. To top it off, before the finish this stage included the infamous Mt. Locke climb which is a 1.5 mile ascent with an extraordinary incline or grade - the most grueling ascent in Texas. Ouch! The third stage was a 34 mile route with hilly and tedious climbs, very nice and scenic. I enjoyed riding with the Category 5 peleton, consisting of 40 to 50 riders where I placed 20th overall. I enjoyed the epic humming sound of a large group of riders cutting through the winds, gears shifting, wheel spokes fanning and cogs in rachet, the drafting - it's a peaceful music, a part of the nature of man in tune with mother nature...all good until the peleton broke up in the big climbs. A Dios, till next year. Hammerfest Results 2003

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