► Seats (too high, too hard, pillion...) and suspension

Divelandy

I live in Wantage and would happily meet up. Would suggest swopping seats and running to say Newbury and back on the A338/B4494.

I am 6'5" so although we weigh the same, are totally different shapes, and I no doubt sit further back on the seat.

I get home just after six and can make any evening this week except Thursday.

Please pm me if you want to give it a go.
 
New sergant seat - arms too short

After much deliberating my other half finally decided on a sergant seat which was delivered today (Service from Sean at Sergant was excellent). Nothing straight forward though - to sit comfortably on the widest part of the seat she is further away from the bars and is stretched too far and reckons she needs the bars 1.5 inches closer to her. Has anyone else had this problem and did they sort it with risers?
 
NEW BMW COMFORT SEAT FOR 800/650

Just seen the details of the new BMW comfort seat for 800 and 650. It looks very nice and has extra padding for tender botts!
Cost is £200. I had a test ride today on the f800gs and loved the bike but hated HATED the seat. Then the salesman showed me a fax just come through from BUMW HQ!
It looks a good solution to me.:bounce1
 
Because they know they can sell lots of them and make even more money from their customers ?? :nenau
 
Why spend £200 on a BMW comfort seat, when Viking Vinyl will replace the stock foam with memory foam for £80?
 
Is this a true comfort seat or the BMW rally seat which has been around since the launch. I have not heard many good things said about the Rally seat which is just a higher seat with the same rubbish foam.
My friend rides a BMW K1200GT and was surprised at one of the recalls on his bike last year, apparently the seat was not very comfy and the front and rear were replaced free.
 
I'd love to get a look at the comfort seat. I had an official comfort seat on an R1150RT and it was nice and wide. Although it had an irritating rising front portion that lived where my man-vegetables wanted to be. It lifted and separated annoyingly!
Are there pictures anywhere on 'tinterweb?

Aran
 
I have a 320 mile motorway trip next weekend and I have run out of time to have my GS800 and my wifes GS650 altered. I have tried a few extra layers of camping mat material but it dose not do much good.
My wife suffers more on the GS650 and because she reaches the ground easily I have constructed this seat pad.
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Its a self inflating pad (from Go outdoors £2.50) wrapped up in a sheet of rubbery ground sheet material. I tried the Pad alone last weekend and it felt good but you tended to slide fore ward on the slippery surface. We will try this Mk2 over the weekend. We may need to add padding under front edge and move the straps.
It looks a mess but the intention is to only use it on the motorway journeys and remove it for the fun riding.
 
Take 2

Thanks to Martin for meeting up with me on Monday :beerjug: and demonstrating my inability to keep up :eek:. We swapped seats to see if it was me or the seat and went for a nice run from Wantage to Newbury and back. I found that Martins was better, though still not enough padding (to my thinking). Martin found mine 'slippery' and unsupportive. A key difference which needs to be considered when altering the padding is our seating position, Martin sits further back in the saddle with his 6'5 frame, where i'm near the front at 5'7. We both agreed for long run's the pillion's space is 'intimate' :toungincheek

So, i posted my seat back to Viking on Tues, received it back on Thurs. Can't get a faster postal turnaround than that. :thumb2

I only used it briefly this morning, but my tender bit's did not get the punishment they previously experienced and as a whole it feels a lot better. Hopefully a ride this weekend will confirm.
 
On order

I popped into Williams Manchester on the way through this lunchtime. The lovely Claudine didn't know about the comfort seat but quickly found out about it for me.
£216 incl VAT.
Ordered!

Aran
 
Pics as soon as they become available please (and any reviews) am still considering the 800 and the seat was a negative point, if it's good then I may have to re-ride!
 
If this is a comfort seat dose it mean BMW have conceded the original seat was not comfortable. If so dose a claim of "not fit for purpose" seem possible. I have had my bike 3 weeks and the thought of having somebody cut the seat up to make it work dose not seem right. BMW must know of this problem, I know my local dealer reads this site and must have passed this dissatisfaction on to the Motorad agent on one of his many visits to discuss warranty issues. Perhaps we should all insist on a replacement seat as the K1200 riders were, or at least a seat at cost.
 
I doubt the "fit for purpose" thing would work: if it didn't for an RT which also had a comfort seat and was a tourer.
The bumf says the standard seat is 880mm high with a seat arc of 1940mm. The comfort seat is 895mm with a 1950mm arc.
If you have a 650 the figures are standard seat 820mm with 1820 arc; comfort seat 835mm with 1830mm arc.

So I figure there is 15mm more foam in there. I think you'd need to be reasonably tall to manage a 895mm seat height. I'm 6'5" and assume I'll manage. If I can't then no-one can!
 
I have just returned from a run with my home made Air seat, it works great on main roads, no numb bum and you can shuffle about on it. The rubber matting gives good grip and you do not slide about. Its not all good news though, on the GS800 it makes it a tip toe job to reach the ground (Im 6'2")
which causes my hips to get stiff. It also removes all feedback from the bike on the twisties, so much feel was lost I had to remove it. I think I need to try a comfort seat before I buy one, surely all the BMW demo bikes will have one fitted when they become available.
 
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