HP Velo's Bodylink Seat Pad

Prisoner at War said:

Are there two different versions of the "new" Bodylink seat pad from HP
Velo?

I ask 'cause the picture of the Bodylink seat pad on HP Velo's site for
their Scorpion trike is different from those pictured on other 'bents
of theirs. I have the latter one, and it shrank a bit during washing
(or machine-drying, more likely). It still fits over the seat itself,
but it's definitely smaller and I'm thinking about getting another set
of Bodylink seat pads, and would therefore get this "new" version
that's always featured on the Scorpion trike, with the, what do you
call it, "side seams"....

Compare <http://hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/scorpion/details_e.html>
with <http://hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/sm/gte/bodylinksitz_e.html>....

Well, HP Velo tells me that there is indeed an updated version of the
Airflow Cushion!

Of course, they said to contact Hostel Shoppe...who had earlier told me
they knew nothing about it...anyone get the feeling that ye olde Hostel
Shoppe is kinda flaky when it comes to 'bents?

Nice folks, to be sure, but I'm not convinced they know what they're
doing all the time...from my badly adjusted SBW telescoping boom to the
defective rear air shock and a host of little niggling things here and
there, I've come to the conclusion that the Hostel Shoppe is merely a
friendlier Mid-Western version of my LBS -- with the emphasis on
"BS"....

There is no reason

Quoted message said:

why you can't solve your own freaking problems. For God's sakes, do not
bother a bike shop with your niggling problems. Solve them yourselves. That
is what your brain is for.

then why have you not killed yourself yet??? take care of your
problems and eliminate them permanently.