what a difference a seat makes

Tired of having to to replace levers and blinkers so often, mostly (but not
always, I admit!) due to stupid low speed drops where I don't get enough
leverage from my feet and the ground, I took the plunge today and had the
seat on the SV carved up. What a difference!

He took quite a lot from the height, and also narrowed it a bit at the
front. The angular bits that Suzuki inexplicably put on the original seat -
(actually, I think they put them in for aesthetic purposes, to match the
waspish angularity of the SV when it changed from its old rounded look) -
but anyway, the hard lines - the bits that seem to hit your bum in all the
wrong places - have been turned into nice gentle curves.

AND - the best thing of all - I can almost flat-foot BOTH FEET at a time!
Omigod.... It is such a confidence-booster to feel terrafirma properly when
I need to. I suspect I will even feel a bit better about a little bit of
unsealed stuff now, instead of feeling that palm-sweating, gut-wrenching
anxiety that comes from knowing my feet only have a "contact patch" of about
2 square cms!

An unexpected bonus - even when I have my feet on the pegs, I seem to fit
the bike better now. Bum is lower, knees are a little higher, and fit the
contours of the tank better. I love it!

As a bike-dropper, I've never been a bike-blinger - that would be silly -
but I know now that the next SV I buy (when I wear out the one I have now)
will have the following mods before it leaves the shop:

Lower the suspension an inch
Carve the seat
Shorten the side stand.

Oh, and maybe some crash-knobs, just in case....

betty - looking forward to the next big ride

 

"bikerbetty" <bikerbettyatgmaildotcom> wrote in message

Oh man...
....I'd love to see that.

Huh?
Why?
I don't geddit.

 

If the suspension is lowered, the side-stand needs to be shortened,
otherwise the bike is too upright when it's supposed to be on the
side-stand. Can be nasty. Omigod, I think I have finally figured out a use
for trigonometry. Maybe now I will be able to understand it LOL!

betty
PS the angle of the headlights also has to be adjusted.

 

Oh yeah... *that*.

(Obvious when you think about it)

JR

 

Maybe a sheepskin before then?

 

Nah, the AirHawk will do nicely.

betty

 

about bloody time!!!



go girl!!!!

 

C'mon is harsh week over????


"

 

Not harsh.
Read again.