Lovely I really aught to look in this orange bit more often, only just seen this Bike looks great, glad you're pleased with it. I'm being really slack with sorting myself out with an orange beasty.
That hard seat might be a good thing really, the problem I always have with seats is not that they're too hard, but too soft. BMW seats, I get on and for the first 20-30 mins it's lovely, til the foam's softened up too much.
Having just got back from Ireland 1800 mile trip, we are thinking about what to do next year and it might be the RDGA or Picos.
I did the RDGA/Gorge Du Verdon/Route Napoleon in 2008 on my GSA12 and would love to do it again on my SE so was looking for an old thread and came across that one !!