Arizuno
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This is mostly a "me too", but perhaps useful to members thinking about modifying their OEM saddles.
I spent a few hours yesterday reshaping my (one-piece) saddle per mmosel, using a coarse Scotch Brite scouring pad as he suggests. It was a little slow, I suppose, but easy work, and easy to see what & where progress was being made. When I was satisfied with the reshaping part, I cut a piece of 3/8" carpet padding to place under the stock foam, to regain some of the height lost to scouring. I'm still working out the extra padding part - thinking about carving up a retired mouse pad to place under the stock foam behind the back part to push me forward. Passenger portion was left untouched. But a fifty-mile ride yesterday afternoon confirmed a VAST improvement in comfort. Like most, I had no experience in doing this kind of thing, but it was very easy and even more effective than the seat lift mod I'd done previously. Laughably cost-effective and neophyte-friendly. mmosel is absolutely correct that getting some curve into the back of the seat is key, but reshaping the bottom as he did also contributes a lot.
I re-attached the cover using duct tape, which will be replaced with Gorilla tape (thanks gerald.hughes!) when I'm satisfied with the padding. BTW, it isn't necessary to completely remove the cover to do this mod; I left the staples in place at the rear of the passenger portion in order to ease reinstallation of the cover & keep things in alignment.
'Though I'm just a shade over 5'7", I'd still like to find a way to increase my personal ride height. A low saddle, with feet relatively forward, places too much weight on one's butt. Still, this mod produces a striking improvement in comfort and I enthusiastically recommend it.
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White '07, OEM wind screen, 1" seat lift, re-shaped OEM seat, seat beads, TKat, Dyna muffler (Serowbot), Raptor petcock, seat pins (Verslagen1), Big Crank.
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