Well, I had the regular original old style seat; a Sportster seat; and a cut-down old style seat that whoever worked over the 99 chopper had done; then I bought the custom upholstered S40 seat which resembles one of the custom seats we see the European folk with... And with each step getting a bit more comfortable, and the last one being pretty tolerable for a couple of tanks of gas; but still not one that you could sit on all day. Although I did just do over 300 miles on the custom S40 seat within a 36 hour time frame.
A few weeks ago, I remembered when we cleaned out my ma/pa in-law's rat's nest, that I'd scarfed up an old tractor seat:
So just joking around, I tried it on the 87 to see what it felt like:
This arrangement felt REALLY seriously good. Like easy chair good! I'm on to something here maybe... maybe...
And then something dangerous happened: I started thinking... I wonder what one of those great big old police style motorcycle seats would look like sitting on the old Savage??? ... So, I gots me one... and it come in a pretty big ol' box; which I expected. And I wasn't even too shocked when I pulled it from the big old box and laid it on the kitchen table:
Yeah, it looks a little bit large, but with nothing to give it perspective, I still wasn't getting a grip on the sitcheation; so's I goes out to the garage and gets me a regular Sabage seet to compare it 2:
Well by golly, it aren't all that big after all now is it? ? ? ???
Hmmm... by gum, I think something is amiss here. It sure didn't look that big in the pictures!!! And having it that close to the tank and pointed down like the original seat means you are still slid right up onto the tank.
Obviously this seat needs to set up an back a ways to fit right:
Right about there oughta do it! Hmm... is it just me, or is something not quite right yet? Ya know it's always best to nail twice before welding once, or something like that I heard once...
Anybody know where a fella can get some really BIG seat springs? I mean so big that ya feel like you're riding the horsey out in front of K-Mart big.