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Seat looks WAY better. If your arms are totally straight u may want to change the risers out to some pullbacks. Would b much more comfortable. I vote for the side license plate...where in Cali?
Seat looks WAY better. If your arms are totally straight u may want to change the risers out to some pullbacks. Would b much more comfortable. I vote for the side license plate...where in Cali?
I plan to move to Encinitas, just north of San Diego. I'm originally from the Ojai/Ventura area and used to work in Westlake Village so I've been through your area lots of times.
I have the stock seat, the Danny Gray butt crack seat, and I had Danny Gray do a custom seat for my Heartland Bobber R conversion. The butt crack seat definitely rides the best, very comfortable and holds your butt in the pocket. I got a 103 SE full setup on my bike, and I can drop the hammer and know I will stay on the bike.
The bobber seat is an entirely different animal. I don't think it can look any better than it does, but I can no longer hammer it or I will fly off the back... the price you pay for looking good - I guess I will just have to continue to suffer.
Last edited by LAZ_Rocker; Nov 26, 2014 at 09:21 PM.
I chose to insert HD plugs instead of the original screw.
The seat:
Seat looks a lot better- glad you went for it. hopefully you got the benefit of feeling more down into the bike and a part of it vs riding up on top of it (as with the stock seat)
only thing I don't like- just my opinion - is how the front of seat bananas upward over the tank. that seat line should be razor flat to the tank and end in line with it vs on top of it, sticking up with a lip. that curve just sort of forces you back a bit more than is needed.
when you get down to So Cal / SD area, look up one of the good upholstery shops and have them re-work the DG seat - by then you'll know where you want to make some tweaks to it and they can clean up that seat-to-tank line. I know a very good seat place but it is in West LA. they usually turn around seats in a day or two and extremely top notch.
here's an example of my new Breakout seat and the forward line meeting the tank instead of going up / over it. the back of your seat would still be the same- the back of my seat is thinner on purpose as it fits me better. our bikes are similar enough for a decent comparison.
I think the frontal padding in the seat was a misguided attempt to try to add more padding in an area where there really isn't enough padding to be useful, because of the shape and height of the frame. It really just adds insufficient padding where you cannot sit anyway, and like you said LA_Dog, hurts the appearance. That front portion is really there only so that there is no "gap" between where you actually sit and the gas tank.
Confirming this, when I had a local seat maker take apart and enhance the stock seat (before I did the RIGHT thing and just bought a Corbin seat), he made the observation that the frontal portion of the stock seat is really way too thinly padded to be usable.
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