painful seat

[superocket]

Best price I could find in UK was £246.00.With exchange rate at the time of $1.62 to the pound it worked out around £189.00 in total. Delivery was about 10 days via UPS.

[superocket]

quote=superocket;693172]Best price I could find in UK was £246.00.With exchange rate at the time of $1.62 to the pound it worked out around £189.00 in total. Delivery was about 10 days via UPS.[/quote]

[superocket]

Best price I could find in UK was £246.00. Total form US including duty was £189.00. Delivery was about 10 days.

[douglr88]

Best advice I ever had....."Get a big fat tyre and a big fat arse"

[MarlboroMan]

CRAZY prices for a seat when you think of it, dayum you can go to DFS and ger a 3 seater leather sette for that price cant you,.?

[45Brit]

ditch the forward controls and put the standard ones back on, so you can take some of your weight on your legs and move around a bit, works wonders.

same goes for the apes, get some lower bars

Look at an original 'pogo seat' Big Twin and notice the difference in riding position.... I always kept the buddy seat for my shovelhead for the same reason.

[poplargreg]

Originally Posted by 45Brit

ditch the forward controls and put the standard ones back on, so you can take some of your weight on your legs and move around a bit, works wonders.

same goes for the apes, get some lower bars

Look at an original 'pogo seat' Big Twin and notice the difference in riding position.... I always kept the buddy seat for my shovelhead for the same reason.

The voice of sanity! If forward controls and high bars were anything other than a styling exercise, then it would not just be H-D riders using them.

[Brigg]

What year is your Sportster?

I have 2 absolutely brand new never been on a bike custom solo seats made by Harley Seats (Barr Industries of America).

I had them made fro my my 07 sportster so I guess any model with the 'modern' tank these seats will fit.

They are made of a foam used in the space shuttle seats they are very thin and very comfortable, I have the third on my bike now and rode 300 miles without to much discomfort...

I was going to ebay them but if you are interested let me know...

One is plain like a stock seat

Second has a Willie G Skull emblem stitched into the rear of the seat squab and its about 4-5" in diameter....

[muddypaws]

Originally Posted by OrangeR

Your shocks if stock have 3 settings, go to the lowest one, this will be adjusting downwards (the way of least resistance) until they can't go any further. Shocks are adjusted with a C spanner by turning the bottom of the shock onto the next notch, up or down. You're going down to reduce the spring pre-load so they should be a bit softer and give you an easier ride. 883L's only have short shocks so there isn't much travel to play with anyway.

8st 10 is truly light weight, you make me sound like a right lardy at 12st 2

Cheers,

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Thanks OrangeR, shocks now on lowest setting and ride is a little softer, tho still think I'm gonna have to change the seat eventually as I can't get comfy on it at all - guess I need to plump my rump up on more burgers or something!

Happy riding and thanx again

[OrangeR]

Originally Posted by muddypaws

Thanks OrangeR, shocks now on lowest setting and ride is a little softer, tho still think I'm gonna have to change the seat eventually as I can't get comfy on it at all - guess I need to plump my rump up on more burgers or something!

Happy riding and thanx again

Anytime Mate

I once tried a 'low' solo seat on my bike. It only stayed on for a week or so. Bad news on the rear end!

I now have a Mustang Fastback dual seat and that's really good, although as already pointed out it's not cheap. I never take a passenger but went for the dual as I can move around, forward and back, which you can't really do on a solo seat. The ability to move around really helps keeping my rear end sweet.

Cheers,

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