CB1300 Kitted Out for Touring (pics)

**Trudes** · 14th December 2006, 19:10

Originally Posted by ceebie13

I cant remember what yours looks like Trudi. We have just road tested ours.
Just got in from having dinner at Lake Ferry. Lyn is well chaffed..er, sorry, chuffed. So am I in reality. Honda could learn a thing or too from Riders.

Good stuff, and yes they could!! Tell Lyn, she doesn't need to worry about the chaffing as she'll be on her own bike soon!!!

My seat is in my profile pic, unless you were talking about my other seat, in which case, just as well you can't remember as you shouldn't have been looking!

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:14

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

Good stuff, and yes they could!! Tell Lyn, she doesn't need to worry about the chaffing as she'll be on her own bike soon!!!

My seat is in my profile pic, unless you were talking about my other seat, in which case, just as well you can't remember as you shouldn't have been looking!

Hard to miss mate...hard to miss! Mwah!

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:16

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Aha! That's what I said too and Mr Trimmit (Mac) said "solid doesn't mean uncomfortable". And he was dead right too. A sore butt will be a thing of the past.

Do you mean it won't bed in , Geoff. Or are hard ones meant to be better than squidgey ones?

**Blackbird** · 14th December 2006, 19:21

Originally Posted by ceebie13

Do you mean it won't bed in , Geoff. Or are hard ones meant to be better than squidgey ones?

It will bed in a wee bit but soft seats are worse than harder ones. The shaping has a big bearing on it too. When I first fitted mine, I did a 400 k run and setting off, I thought "Crikey, that's a bit firm", worrying about what I was going to feel like an hour down the road. The answer was that it didn't get worse at all. Best investment you can make.

Look forward to seeing your fine looking steed over the hols.

G

**Trudes** · 14th December 2006, 19:22

"I like big butts and I can not lie,
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face......

So your girlfriend throws a Honda
Playin workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda....

Baby got back
Baby got back'

Stupid song, but it reminded me of it.

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:23

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Look forward to seeing your fine looking steed over the hols. G

Ditto G, I'll call you a day or two before we get to Coro. How's that?

**Terminated** · 14th December 2006, 19:28

Originally Posted by ceebie13

I just thought I'd set the CB up in readiness for our sojourn around the N.Island next month.

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Isn't it exciting planning a ride. Mrs H, the bikes and I will be in the South Island in two weeks' time. Canardly wait!

Hey you guys and girls, enjoy your rides over the next month or so. Ceebie your Honda looks really good there in the picks.

Mr & Mrs H, you've done the Sth Island quite a lot, and you each have marvellous bikes for the journey.

I figure twelve months out and I may be going on a tour, longterm goal is to do the Sth Island bit by bit over the next five years, [don't want to rush these things

] Meanwhile as and when I move up to the next bike, I reckon will get quite a bit of the Nth Island in too before heading south.

Heads Up and Enjoy yourselves

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:34

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Isn't it exciting planning a ride. Mrs H, the bikes and I will be in the South Island in two weeks' time. Canardly wait!

And when you say the Rider seat was "fast", what do you mean? Did you have to have some sort of "sitting" first?

Yes, Hitch. My route planning has been positively meticulous. Lyn reads a novel in bed...I read a map!! Ooh I'm sooo romantic arenye?

Fast? Riders took basically three days to do the job. They worked from photographs I'd sent them in which I had comped an example from their website (GSX1400) onto the CB using Photoshop. Then I chatted to Mac on the blower and backed it all up with written instructions via email. And I got the KBer discount too. Sorted. I did think about photocopying Lyn's bum but Riders assured me that wasn't necessary!!

**Hitcher** · 14th December 2006, 19:37

Interesting. I'm pretty happy with the FJR's stock saddle and I haven't had too many complaints from pillions. But if I still owned an ST1300, that would definitely have a Rider seat by now!

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:40

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

My seat is in my profile pic, unless you were talking about my other seat, in which case, just as well you can't remember as you shouldn't have been looking!

My God!! You could have a bath in that seat, T!! Great job.
Next question...the mirrors? Where did they come from?
Bike looks great. Lyn says, "Wow!, it's lovely but I'll never be able to ride a 900"
I think she will one day. Bloody better! Maybe I should just steer her towards a nine and by-pass the two-fifty. Whatdayafink?

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 19:44

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Interesting. I'm pretty happy with the FJR's stock saddle and I haven't had too many complaints from pillions. But if I still owned an ST1300, that would definitely have a Rider seat by now!

Well, funnily enough I was happy with my half of the stock Honda seat on the CB - except that since Riders were hacking it to bits to sort Lyn's problem out, I asked them for a bit of extra height in the pilot's seat too. Of course, now I'm finding a bit of extra buffeting over the screen aren't I? When will it all end? LOL

**Trudes** · 14th December 2006, 20:00

Originally Posted by ceebie13

My God!! You could have a bath in that seat, T!! Great job.
Next question...the mirrors? Where did they come from?
Bike looks great. Lyn says, "Wow!, it's lovely but I'll never be able to ride a 900"
I think she will one day. Bloody better! Maybe I should just steer her towards a nine and by-pass the two-fifty. Whatdayafink?

It is definately a comfy thing, I think it has moulded to my arse!
The mirrors are from a place called PJ Parts (google it) and they are Rizoma mirrors, lots of different ones to choose from.

Tell Lyn, it's a very easy and forgiving 900, not a t all scary, I went from a GN250 to it, so honestly, no probs aside from the weight and height of it.

**ceebie13** · 14th December 2006, 20:36

Originally Posted by riffer

Wow. Looking good there.

You do, um, realise that the bike may get dirty though, don't you?

Don't worry, Simon, there's oodles of space under the seat for rag, a sponge, a shammy, WD40, Autoglym and chain lube. So when Lyn has her head in a book I shall be being completely and utterly anal and tinkering with the bike outside the motel room door.

**Kendog** · 14th December 2006, 20:43

Those do look good and one day I will get my arse into one of those seats.

PJ Parts is a dangerous site, enter at your own risk.

here is the mirror section, ours is the Impulse