Thu May 22 09:55:34 1997 - Message No. 873
From: Ludo Sys

Subject: Re: Seat-Problems


On Mon, 19 May 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Frank E. Düren wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I just came back from a wonderful two-day trip through the alps. Riding 700
> km in two days, on winding, bumpy roads, my girlfriend on the backseat I
> once again found it proved: the @ seat is a piece of junk. I donīt now
> wheather itīs my butt or the seat. Can anyone sit longer than two hours on
> his seat.

Hi all,

I rode 4 days in the Alps (Austria) and had no problem with the seat on
the smaller, winding and bumpy roads there, cause this invites you to have
a very active riding style (although watch out for the severe Austria
police force). In our way back to Belgium we had to travel 1050 km in one
day. OK, the saddle isn't that good but stopping every 150 a 200 km to
stretch the legs and the pain disappeared instantly. We did this distance
in 12 hours (with 2 stops of 1 hour) and coming home after a hot bad I
could hardly realise that I had been riding for a whole day.
Another thing : I travelled in the company of BMW-fahrers, so what
considers the average cruising speed, I was the limitating factor (but
there butts hurt too, in spite of ergonomic saddles or what else they
call it). I rode constantly between 6500 and 7000 rpm (150 - 165 km/h)
resulting in a consommation of appox. 7l/100 km (R1100 GS : 6L !!! cause
they never exceeded 5000 rpm) and coming home I had to fill 0,2 l oil
(Valvoline 10W40semi-synthetic) which I consider to be normal at that revs
for such a long time.

regards,

Ludo
                                  
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