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Categories: all aviation bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater Wed, 22 Feb 2006
I took a longer ride on the seat today, and it's pretty good. Now, I just have to find my old materials and see what I have left. I suspect I have enough headliner material, but that I'll need to acquire more vinyl. In any case, there's probably a surface finish of vinyl that I'd like better than the one I used for the Ninja's seat. I was in Bellevue Kawasaki today, and saw that they had a 2003 Ninja 250 for sale. There was a moment of temptation, but I resisted. It's amazing how much physically smaller those bikes are than the Z. I was actually in there looking for these pads which adhere to the sides of the tank, and afford a grippy surface. It apparently quite improves overall control, being another point where you're "attached" to the bike. They had some generic pads, with big knobs on the surface, but I wasn't that convinced. I thought I remembered MCN rating some other brand higher, so I wanted to do some research before spending my $40. I'm sure any of them would work fine, and be a huge improvement, but I can't just plonk down money like that on what amounts to a whim at this point. Posted at 14:48 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Today started well enough, but quickly went downhill. I had just After about 20 minutes of fruitless searching, I finally had a vague recollection of loaning the knife and a set of sanding discs to my friend Jesse. I called him, let a message, checked into irc, but he wasn't responding. Finally, I got hold of him, and he confirmed that he did, in fact, have the electric knife and sanding discs. Hallelujah! We arranged the pickup, and I was soon happily cutting foam. So, in the last five hours, I've got the seat almost completely formed. It's going much more quickly this time, now that I have the Ninja's seat under my belt. I just got the pillion section glued down, and am waiting for the glue to dry so it doesn't gum up the electric knife's blade too much. Surprisingly, I managed to get the shape just about right before my first test ride. I had thought it was sloped too far forward (which is the problem I was trying to fix -- argh), but when I rode it, it was actually pretty well spot-on. There was some pressure on the forward part of the seat under my legs, but that's easy to fix. Posted at 14:42 permanent link category: /motorcycle Categories: all aviation gadgets misc motorcycle theater Written by Ian Johnston. Software is Blosxom. Questions? Please mail me at reaper at obairlann dot net. |