Re: Re***bent Comfort

"Jon" <jonmein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> For what it is worth, I was told by a couple of dealers that most of 
>> their customers that found the BikeE comfortable for longer distances 
>> were women.
>
> I never found the BikeE seat uncomfortable, even for 50 mile
> rides.  I don't find it uncomfortable today, now that my BikeE
> is mainly used as a short errand/utility bike (< 5 miles).
>
>> Of course, the BikeE seat was plush and comfortable compared to the 
>> original (pre Cobra) Easy Racers seat.
>
> I have the pre-sweet BikeE seat with the shorter seatback.  I went
> from that to Tour Easy with Kool-back seat, much taller.  I like the
> fact that the BikeE seat base could be adjusted for 'tilt', a feature
not
> available with the Kool-back seat base.  I also like that the BikeE
> seat position is easily adjustable over a wide range.  Adjusting the
> Easy Racers seat for someone else to try is not something I enjoy
> doing.  It is complicated by the fact that I have a rear rack that
> attaches to the seat sup****t rods.  Overall, that's a minor issue.
> The Kool-back seat has worked very well for me.
>
> Maybe I'm just not very picky about re***bent seats.  I don't
> have a problem moving back and forth between my Tour Easy
> and my Volae even though the "euro-style" fiberglass seat on
> my Volae is very different, both in angle and in sup****t from
> the Kool-back.
>
> I just rolled over 10,000 miles on my Tour Easy odometer.
> I had the bike about a week or so before I got the cyclometer,
> so I crossed 10,000 miles on the bike somewhat sooner.
> Still turning over 9999.99 to 10000.00 was fun!
>
> I suspect the foam seat padding on the Tour Easy could benefit
> from replacement. There are a few worn places on the seat cover
> fabric.  The seat back fabric seems to have worn very little.

An awful lot of guys who ride re***bents have iron *****. I mean, they
could 
sit on a fence rail all day and not complain. I on the other hand am like 
the canary in the mine. I will warn you early on what is wrong with every 
re***bent seat. That is because I do not have an iron ass. I am sensitive 
back there.

The BikeE seat was an abomination as was the early Tour Easy seat. The
Cobra 
seat was also strictly for those with iron *****. Any re***bent seat must
be 
adjustable for the lean back, that goes without saying. All the RANS seats

are comfortable provided you get the seat base foam right. But the most 
comfortable seat ever designed was the Vision seat. Nothing else can
compare 
to it.

When you get a re***bent, you might as well got the comfort right because 
that will determine what you will ride. Only masochists like to ride bikes

that give them pain.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota