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Seat is too "short"!
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ramvett
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PostPosted: April 28, 2009, 10:39 pm    Post subject: Seat is too "short"!
OK...just got my '80 Special back on the road after rebuilding the carbs, and quite frankly, I'm impressed! Bike runs great!
y issue is the seat, back 20 years ago, I could fit on this ride, but now I feel my knees are up under my chin. It would be great to stretch out a bit, but not with this custom Corbin King & Queen. Too bad, its mint too. Is there a seat out there that would let me sit back some?
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 4:19 am    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
Get rid of the buck horn bars and put lower ones on.........can slide your ar*e back a bit more
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 8:07 am    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
some of those stepped seats you're stuck with one seating posistion, like setting in a bucket, even the regular stepped special seats do that
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 3:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
on my Heritage Special with the step in the seat and buckhorns it is a s*** to ride as i am trying to sit part the way on the step up...................with my 80 Special with the gentle sloped step up and lower bars it is a pleasure to ride...........
jayal, Yea i know you can use the tail light if you get an itch on the standards Laughing

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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 4:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
big ol' flat standard seat you can just stretch out and take a nap if you feel like it..... us old guys do that a lot
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
Its called granny napping..................long way from there yet...........I hope
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 4:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
Yea, the bar's had to go. Beside's being fugly, very uncomfortable. I put the 750 bar's on & the difference is nite & day. 'Course I'm only 5'8",
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 7:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
I notice riding the flat standard seat is like sitting on the couch....especially compared to my Ninja.
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
pumps wrote:
I notice riding the flat standard seat is like sitting on the couch.....
Exactly and where do you take naps?..... on the couch...
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PostPosted: April 29, 2009, 11:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Seat is too "short"!
Don't get me wrong I like my Ninja but the seat sucks compared to the XS
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