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In Search of Height--Phase 1

3/15/2015

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Nobody ever promised that things worth doing would be easy.  This bike is no exception.  I've now had her for a bit over 2 months, and she's yet to provide me a single mile of smiles.  Yes, she is just eating on my food bill devouring any sort of spare funding I thought I should have.

Here's me sitting on the stock suspension with the stock seat. I've actually got the bike vertical by supporting myself on the wall.   We'll call this Mod 0.  Whew, 5.5 inches from me to mother earth while in a neutral position.  This is going to result in way too many times picking this bike up if we can't dab nor stop without vaulting off!
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Mod 0: Stock Seat/Stock 'Spench--5.5 inches
All those years of riding a slab of leather on a horse has apparently numbed my buttocks.  So much in fact that I ride seats for 76K miles, which others couldn't get 200 miles out of.  I was more than willing to get as much out of seat adjustment as I could.  Height Modification #1--a low seat/shaved foam.  While I've seen folks go at their seats with a vengeance and a electric turkey knife,  I was lucky that Seat Concepts had already done the hard part. They provide foam which is slightly wider on the pelvic bones, but 3/4inch shorter. 
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Stocker Seat
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Seat Concepts
I love gripper vinyl as it doesn't have the maintenance of wet leather, nor the slickness of vinyl. 
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Gripper Material Close Up
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Seat Concepts-Top View
There are 3 ways do this mod.  Send you stock seat pan to Seat Concepts and pay outbound shipping +$20 labor, buy a pnuematic staple gun and stainless steel staples ($60) and do it yourself, or find a local upholstery installer.  I went with the latter option.  He thought the foam and cover was very high quality materials.  I think pretty is as pretty does!
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So, the age old question...did we get our promised 3/4 inches out?  Yes, I believe we did rabbit!. However, still not a uber useable bike for a shortypants!  We'll need to look elsewhere for another few inches.
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Mod 1: Seat Concepts Low Seat/Stock 'Spench--4.5 inches
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