Custom Seats

[Zapf]

Last night, I did a 280 km non-stop night ride in the Waikato/BOP to bring up my night riding skills ready for the Southern Cross and to test the new McDonalds “Rider” custom seat that I recently fitted – here’s a brief evaluation.

The longest I’d previously ridden with the new seat was only 10 km to work, so didn’t know what to expect. After 30 km or so, I was slightly concerned as it felt firmer than the stock seat, although perfectly comfortable. I guess I was expecting something a bit plusher as it bedded in. As the ride progressed, the comfort level simply didn’t change, absolutely superb throughout and I got off the bike as fresh as starting out. I guess this goes to show that “soft” doesn’t equal comfort, shape does. Why manufacturers can’t always get it right themselves bearing in mind all the R&D money they chuck at everything on the bike else is beyond me. This product really delivers and thanks again Neal for introducing me to your Father in Law

A couple of further comments. Because my Teknic jacket leaks, I took a punt and had a new jacket delivered yesterday from Motomail. It was the Arlen Ness Max model they have on special at ~$200. What a fantastic buy! Warm as toast with a tee shirt underneath, even though it was pretty cold over the Mamaku Range. Have no doubt it’ll be waterproof too with its high spec. Nice looking jacket too.

Finally, it’s quite a while since I’ve ridden any distance at night and I was really hacked off with the number of car drivers who were either very late dipping their headlights or simply didn’t bother. Never really noticed that before. In the end, I started giving them a burst from my 100 W main beam and that seemed to do the trick!

Cheers

Geoff

re cage high beams.... I find that if you leave your high beam on they'll go.... "arrr too bright, (dips to low beam)" hoping that you'll do that same.

So have your high beam on normally. and them wait for cages to dip before dipping yours...

[Waylander]

re cage high beams.... I find that if you leave your high beam on they'll go.... "arrr too bright, (dips to low beam)" hoping that you'll do that same.

So have your high beam on normally. and them wait for cages to dip before dipping yours...

Unless ofcourse they are thinking the same thing in wich case both are blinded and both get pissed off about it and there fore leave them on for the next person and begins a vicious cycle of blindness.