Another North Westerner joins the club

DesmoS4 said:

Morning chaps

I’ve been lurking on these pages for a few weeks now gathering lots of useful information on GS’s and its variants
So now its time to step out of the shadows and start interacting with the rest of you
I picked up my first 1200gs just before Christmas it’s an Alpine White low suspension model I found at Bowkers Preston. So far I’ve only done around 50 miles on it and after riding sports bikes for the last 30 years its going to take some getting used to, but the initial feelings are good and I’m looking forward to piling some miles on once the weather picks up a bit.

I’ll no doubt have questions over the coming weeks and the first one is about seats. I believe I’m on the standard seat but when I search the part number 52 53 8 532 736 on real oem it doesn’t show up can anyone confirm which seat this is?

Cheers Desmo

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DC said:

Welcome Des, If you can work out how to post an image, showing the seat on the bike, it should be possible to see if you have a low version, They are cut quite deep as opposed to a std one. Is the one you have too low ? are you looking to raise it ? if so the std one will give more height, but under the seat there is an elliptical turn boss, Turn that over from L to H and see if it helps. Obviously if you want to lower the seat height, check the Boss is on L.
Enjoy the forum. Im NW too

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