Sun Jun 1 19:21:38 1997 - Message No. 961
From: "Gregor Baer, AVL"

Subject: Seat Problems


Hi everyone,

There is sth. that works quite well when you are traveling alone on the @.
What I did was to put one of these mattresses of foamed material that you
normally use for camping (Isomatte) on the seat. I put a travel bag
lenghtwise behind me on the seat and underneth i put the mattress half
roled together. The part of the mattress which is not roled together I left
on the seat. 
If You are alone and you go camping this is quite a good solution. The best
way is to use it sometimes and sometimes not, so there is some variation.
It takes only two seconds to put the matress or to take it away.
There are two disadvantages:
1.) You are a little bit higher on the seat and so you can get mor or less
turbulences on the helmet, depending un the screen and your height.
2.) The legs tend to spread and it is a bit difficult to keep them together
because the seat is wider.

Anyway I have tried it doing 2000Kms in three days and it really helps. I
used to go sometimes with the mattress and sometimes without and I think
the Trip was a lot less painfull for my back then it would have been
whitout it.

Greetings

Gregor



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