Seat

[itcardoc]

Hey there, does anyone else feel like the seat on the Blur is pushing you forward? I just traded in my 05 Stella and what a difference in the seating positions. I am 6'2" and feel like the seat needs to be angled back more and cut lower and more rearward. -Kevin

[illnoise]

Hey there, does anyone else feel like the seat on the Blur is pushing you forward? I just traded in my 05 Stella and what a difference in the seating positions. I am 6'2" and feel like the seat needs to be angled back more and cut lower and more rearward. -Kevin

I like the seating position, I just don't like the hump, I'd prefer to scoot back and forth a little more for variety. Someone on the list posted a photo of a seat they had smoothed out, I might try that someday.

What I don't like is that it seems to force your legs apart more than I like, i've found by angling my toes inward a little while I ride, it keeps my knees together which is better for ergonomics and aerodynamics. When I have my tank bag in place, my knees seem to naturally hug it, so that helps keep my legs in a better position, too, but YRMV.

[Scooterdude]

After several tries I was finally able to come up with a seat modification that is more comfortable for us long-legged riders. For reference, I am 6'2" with a 34 inch inseam. My knees were just too close to the handlebars. What I ended up doing was to remove the cover, carefully shave back the foam 5 inches where the passenger area drop down curve occurs and then removed the foam from the seat pan. Note: be careful when cutting the foam in this area because the foam here is very thin alrerady! Then, using a cut off wheel on my cordless drill, I cut off the deep plastic raised sections on that part of the seat pan. This provided me with two or three added inches of rearward mobility and improved padding. It also removed those 1/2 inch tall molded plastic sections that love to dig into your backside. I then re-installed the seat cover and now have a far more comfortable seating position. Granted, it is not 100% better, that would take a major rebuild of the seat pan itself to remove the severe rake do to the sport bike seat angle but for me it is 90% better than stock. The end result is virtually impossible to detect unless you are measuring it and comparing it to a stock seat. If you would like to see photo's send me an email at [email protected]

[beelzebubbles]

Was it better to shave off the back vs. padding the front? I'd like to sit back a little more sometimes, and wondered about doing the latter. My inseam is 32", but I feel like a little higher up on the seat wouldn't hurt, either.

[Scooterdude]

I actually experimented with adding padding to various parts of the seat by cutting up one of those blue foam camping pads. It did help some when padding the front of the seat as my well intended theory was to create more of a pocket to sit in. The result was less than desireable because creating a "pocket" tended to keep me in one position and not allowing me to wiggle around when I got tired of sitting in one position. The other thing was that I could visually see the added padding under the seat cover making the modification more obvious than what I wanted.