Hey folks! Been quite some time since I've posted. Haven't done much with the bike in several months. Now I'm gearing up for some riding, and got a wild hair. The seat design has never really worked for me, especially on longer rides. I figure I'll be ordering some aftermarket seat soon, so I thought I'd do a bit of re-contouring myself before spending a lot of money on a new seat.
First was to remove the seat ridge that forces me into the tank so badly. I cut it back about 4 inches then contoured the rest of the seat to match.
While testing the fit on the bike, I got the idea to make it more like a saddle using the ridge I previously cut off, locating it to the front. Yeah, strange idea.
It felt good while pre-testing on the bike so I decided to give it a go and put a layer of quilting over it and put the seat cover back on. You can see that the cover doesn't fit around the area where the ridge was, but I figured that if I liked it this way enough that I'd have it re-covered.
The seat idea was to keep me from being pushed in to the tank, pull me back a bit and maybe even lower myself a bit to keep from adding risers (now I've got to lower the pegs...). Rode it around the neighborhood and the jury's still out. Not sure I like the design yet. I might just remove the ridge addition to the front and see how that works. If not, Corbin here I come!!!!
Here's pics of it on the bike. Cover looks terrible right now. But keep in mind, I'm still testing!!
