seat sizing

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Tim Pruitt wrote:

> > If we are confessing I must also confess...I recently cheated on my KLR also I demo-ed a new Triumph 800 Adventure.

In my business, I am often 'told', "It doesn't hurt to look. Right, rev?" As I often pick up the broken pieces, I ask, "So, tell me. How is that working out for you?" Looking is the first step down in a slippery slope; bikes or otherwise. Between 1976 and 2003 I was completely celibate (bike-free); and then I was invited to Vintage Bike Days, Mansfield, Ohio,oh,oh,oh the last weekend of July. It was a great reunion with my 'adult' friends from the college dorm days(circa 1972-76). Did you know they have something called 'demo-rides' at such events? Its like the free beer at a Budweiser plant, only better. My motorcycle college buddies all cajoled, "Its a demo ride. What can it hurt?" "You aren't buying anything, just go for a ride." So, I went on a date with a young British girl named Bonnie Ville and I was in over my head with desire. Not quite the same zip as my old Japanese doll, Ms. XS650, but what a sweet bike. Just so you know, I also went out with a couple of 'Dawg's' that weekend. Since it was the HD 100th anniversary, Milwaukee Iron Works was there with TRAILER LOADS of iron-candy for you to ride. I tried on a V-Rod and a Fat Bob. (Who makes up these names?) I was like a cocaine addict in Columbian processing station. With glazed over eyes, I said, "If I was to ever start riding again, the BMW 650 GS would be what I would buy." My gentile friends suggested, "You could buy three used KLaRa's for the price of one new GS." or two if you didn't marry Bonnie Ville. sigh. None of the 'college-boys' owned a KLR, none even had rode one, but they all agreed, it was the bike-for-the money and this starving grad student begin to 'just look' at pictures. And started reading an internet site called DSN_KLR650. What can it hurt? Right? By mid-Oct, I owned by a 2 year old named KLaRa; offered on Cycle Trader. 2001 A-15; 2 years old, 2505 miles, SS brake lines, metal skid plate, OEM tail and tank bag. The bike looked brand new--and I was the fourth owner. Never had seen a KLR in person until I went and picked it up. I was immediately convinced, if you could only afford one bike, the KLR is it. It now has ~34K miles on it and my 15 year-old son holds the general guardianship of that lady. He piloted it 2527 miles last summer over a 12 day period. Jan of the 2004: I had moved to South Dakota, I had met Jeff Saline who began the thorough corruption and KLR indoctrination of farkling (I'm pretty sure it is his fault. cough. or was it the other 8000 memembers of the DSN_KLR650?) By late-July, we were part of 5 KLRs were headed South from Roosville, MT toward the Mexican border. The right bike for the the right money! My friends lied when they said you could buy three used KLaRa's for the price of one GS 650. If you 'just look' carefully, you can actually have 4 (nicely faked) KLaRa's for the same money as a new GS. WARNING: So here comes the slippery slope-logic (cough)-- So if you can only afford one GS, wouldn't it be better to have 4 KLR's? It doesn't hurt to look, right? You just never know where 'looking' will take you. Bikes or otherwise. revmaaatin. yes, this is more than just a story about motor-bikes.

[mark ward]

One big thing (no pun intended) is the size of your Butt. Padding (muscle fat etc) Butt mostly spacing of the rear pelvic bones. (Mine hit right on the edges of the KLR's seat. When you go to a Bicycle shop they have you sit on a speacial pad to measure your BONES, where do they hit/sit. Putting all that aside, Blood circulation, anouther, HUGE BUTT ISSUE. (pun intended) and even small tushies. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]