The standard seat on my Triumph Rocket III is possibly the most uncomfortable seat ever to grace a motorcycle. OK for short rides, but anything over 50 miles requires a large dose of alcohol (not recommended) or a handfull of pain killers. Considering that I bought this bike to do some big miles, and I was disappointed that the 800 dollar progressive shocks I bought didn't make any difference, so I decided to bite the bullet (again) and get the seat re-padded and re-shaped.
There's a company here who promise to make uncomfortable seats comfortable again, so I dropped it off with some instructions as to what I needed, and the guy promised that it'd be done in 7-10 days. Not having heard back from him, I rang him after 14 days and he sounded surprised that I was asking how it was going, and told me that he hadn't even started it yet. Great.
Anyway, 24 days after I dropped it off, he rang to tell me it was all done. While I was pissed that it took 2.4 times as long as his promised timeline, I was happy it was done, and paid him his 450 bucks and took my seat home. It took me 30 minutes to realise that the reason it wouldn't fit back on my bike was that he'd used different bolts to secure the seat strap. I guess he must have lost the original 6mm "mushroom head" stainless screws, so he replaced them with hex head panel screws of unknown thread pitch that stripped the thread out of the nutserts in my seat base, and sat too "proud" of the seat base to allow it to click back into place. Once I removed the seat strap completely, it popped straight back on. Wonderful.
Oh well, apart from his tardiness, his losing my seat strap screws and his and poor mechanical skills, I like the job that he did. It was no easy task I'm sure, but he's done it in such a way that it doesn't look out of place. I really wanted to take it for a ride today as the weather is warming up now, but there was a car blocking my driveway, and the owner (and her keys) were miles away, so I vented my frustration by giving the big beast a well deserved wash. Hopefully it'll be a nice day tomorrow and I'll be able to get a ride in.
And yes, I know that I need to mow my lawn, I'm not lazy, I'm just being "energy efficient", so when I can't see the top of my fence over the grass, I'll cut it and use the grass to make an ethanol based fuel for my lawn mower........... Cheers, Terry.
