reidj wrote:
> Kris,
> These designs are beautiful! You should really submit them to ID
> magazine and industrial design competitions. Thank you for your work
> developing better seats for distance riding! Lately I have been
> hesitant to ride my beloved Coker because of all the rubbing (front
> inner thigh) and numbness. Thank you for including the center cutaway.
> Do these seats have new seat bases - not the current Velo 500 seat
> base? Please say "yes". Do the new seats have a narrower front area
> than the current KH seats (to reduce thigh rubbing)? Do you have plans
> to eventually stop using the 4 bolt unicycle seat mount? I would
> welcome that. It may make our seats more stable, more standardized with
> other b**e components, and have fewer bolts to maintain. I can't wait
> ride on these new seats!
>
> -Reid J.
> Atlanta, GA
Cool- would be fun to enter something.
Right now the seat bases are the same as the 2006 base. The front
area is the same width, and personally I like this width. But the
point of having a removable cover is that you can modify the foam to
personal preference, so you could still do that.
Attached is a photo showing the profile of the 2 saddles. You can see
that the foam profile is the same height in the front and back (sticks
up only about 10mm above the bumpers). But in the case of the Freeride
I reduced the curvature which increases padding thickness in the
middle. This seems to be a lot better for increasing shock absorbancy
and for decreasing pressure on the front of the saddle. But if you
don't like it you could still just take the saddle cover off and cut
the foam to whatever shape you like.
Kris
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