How to adjust the motorcycle for long adventure trips?
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The common understanding is that to have comfort on your trips you need big and heavy motorcycles like GS 1200 or Honda Goldwing. Okay, but what if we don’t like, don’t need or don’t have such a machine? In this video, I will tell you how to make some very basic, budget adjustments that will help you much more than you can imagine. Before I start with the trips I want to define the phrase ‘Riding Comfort’. It is actually a combination of many factors. For example, Honda Goldwing will be number one for long highway miles, but what about the city traffic? 150cc is great around the city, but terrible on the long distance, is it?
With these examples I want to move your attention from narrow focus and again help you to see the whole picture. The tips I am going to show you now are more or less universal and will work on almost every motorcycle and trip, with some small exceptions of course. With that being said, let’s do it.
The very first thing is the seat.
Choose as flat as possible not so soft seat. Not really hard, but definitely not soft. Find a proper seat, or build your own, as I did. It is made from a special foam, hard enough to provide stability and comfort at the same time. Don’t ask me where to buy it this foam, because we live in different countries, just Google it. It is a foam for motorcycle seats, not for armchairs or sofas.
I even bought this synthetic mesh from India and I am going to put it on my seat, but is not so easy to find a place to do it here in Germany. In India it cost me couple of dollars here they ask for 50 euro, just to stretch it and nail it. I might buy tacker and make it, it would be cheaper.
Forget about these curvy shapes. They are great for short rides, but terrible on the long distance. When you have this nice curvy shape your body will always slide on the exactly the same position and because of that you will press exactly the same spots for many hours and this will be really painful after couple of hours.
Before you even start telling me about the nice and ergonomic seats I would like you to see from a different point of view. A nice wide and ergonomic seat will be great on the asphalt, but it is not going to work on bad or dirt roads, why? Because over there you have to stand on the pegs and if the seat is to wide it is not going to be comfortable. So these seats are great on the big cruisers like Harley Davidson, but now we are talking for something different, aren’t we?
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18 фев 2019
