Hi all, I picked up my new seat today from "Custom Motorcycle seats" in Coventry, and I can't praise it enough. Admittedly, I rode from Southampton to Coventry sitting on a kitchen drawer front, but the ride back was brilliant. No more being forced to sit in one position, you can sit where you please. They ended up re-building the entire seat, and added rider and pillion gel pads as an extra. Total cost was �230. It is quite tall now too, so anyone under 6ft might struggle, but they can basically do whatever you want.
Contact Mel or Ross at http://www.motorbike-seats.co.uk/ or melvin.hunter@ntlworld.com for a quote, and have a look at the pics!

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Very nice Doug, bit expensive but as you say its a great result.

Looks really nice and worthy a "dakar-bike". =)

Looks better this way. Is the top layer anti-slip? Gonna ask Ray( www.rayz.nl) if he can make something like this for my Tenere! What's the difference in height compared to the original seat? Thanx, greetz, Hans.

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i was just gonna ask that!

Tenere Doug - would you mind measuring the distance from the top of the seat to the floor and from the top of the seat to the footpeg please? I'm very interested in getting the same thing done but want to make sure i can still comfortably reach the floor.

thanks,
Pete.

The seat height is roughly 37 inches (94cm), but don't be too put off, as it drops a bit on the suspension and the seat padding. Seat to peg is about 23 inches (58.5cm). You could probably have it a bit lower if you wanted, but as it is it suits me fine. Next on the list is a throaty end can...!

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Almost forgot, yes, the top layer is like a "basket-weave" material, and very grippy. It's the same stuff you get on those Corbin seats from the States.

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Its a good modification, I would choose a different profile but at least this shows me a top quality job can be achieved.

Well done mate.

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Check out the Kahedo seat from Off-The-Road. This is an exchange seat available in three heights. Swopped mine last winter; it's much better than the original.

Colin

Actually, since a few months, I've swapped the Rayz custom seat with someone for a original.... just to be able to swap that one for an Kahedo (they come in 3 different tasts: this is the high one). Rayz seat was too wide at the front and in the middle: we had a bit of a misunderstanding 'bout my needs so he built a very comfy seat. Very good on long trips on motorway, but not for offroad riding.



here's the original as a comparison:


here's Rayz as a comparison:



and I agree: the Kahedoo is a nice piece of work. It enables me to ride the Tenere more aggressive by moving way forward, adopting a MX/Supermoto style. I've asked to make it a bit more firm/hard then normal: can't tell if they did, but it sure is firm. Its cross section is round shaped at the front, so you can easily shift your but left-right, forward-backward, while flat, broad and less firm at the end, so a pillion would probably (not tested) be comfortable seated. I'm not such a tall guy (1m76) so now I actually have to climb the Ten (like it's a horse) while it's on the side stand. It'll take a few days to get used to the hight and how it affects the center of gravity of bike-rider combo. It'll bring your head out of the turbulence of the standard screen as a bonus.

HJ

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