seat ajustment

Hi all,
this fine morning i took my old faithful honda cb1 to a bike shop and traded it in for one of these new fangled v twin thingys called an sv650s k5.
So any how i watched as the guy wheeled away my baby and brought out this shiney blue awsome looking machine, As hes explaining away stuff that i wasnt taking much notice of as i was itching to get on it ,the only thing i did here was keep around 4 to 5k while you run it in, This brought my excitement level down. Any how the time came to jump on imagine the expression on my face when i realised i could hardly reach the floor as im only 5ft 2in,So what i need guys is if any of you live around the swansea area and you know som1 that can cut my seat down a bit for me then maybe i can enjoy my new bike the way i should without worrying about the time when i put my foot down and find som1 nicked the tarmac.

Originally Posted by pip

Hi all,
this fine morning i took my old faithful honda cb1 to a bike shop and traded it in for one of these new fangled v twin thingys called an sv650s k5.
So any how i watched as the guy wheeled away my baby and brought out this shiney blue awsome looking machine, As hes explaining away stuff that i wasnt taking much notice of as i was itching to get on it ,the only thing i did here was keep around 4 to 5k while you run it in, This brought my excitement level down. Any how the time came to jump on imagine the expression on my face when i realised i could hardly reach the floor as im only 5ft 2in,So what i need guys is if any of you live around the swansea area and you know som1 that can cut my seat down a bit for me then maybe i can enjoy my new bike the way i should without worrying about the time when i put my foot down and find som1 nicked the tarmac.

Cutting some foam out of the seat may not be enough. (PM Grinch, as he has had it done).

You may need to lower the whole bike. Longer dogbones on the rear suspension linkage and dropping the forks through the yokes. (PM e.d., as she has had this done).

oh ur hmm now i feel worse thanks for your reply though

Originally Posted by pip

oh ur hmm now i feel worse thanks for your reply though

Your dealer can do the dogbone and forks thing. Flutter your eyelashes at them and they might do you a deal.

You should be OK with the seat sculpted a bit. I'm probably about your height and I ended up cutting foam out of the seat to make life easier. I've now gone one step further and got rid of the sv but that's a bit drastic Enjoy your new bike

Hi Pip,

It might not get you as low as you need, but Suzuki do a seat which is 10mm lower than standard for £28. It's a start and although I can get the balls of my feet down on standard machines, I'm going to get one when I order my SV.

Hope this help.

Garry.

[fizzwheel]

PM e.d. she had the seat sculpted on her curvey and she has had her K5 lowered, she will be able to give some pointers I would think

HTH

Enjoy your new bike

Edit Scoobs beat me to it....

short arses

i can be flat footed on the floor + raise my **** off the seat to ajust my boxers like rossi lol


right i would do longer dog bones itl probably work better! ... or get a bandit!

Originally Posted by suzsv650

short arses

i can be flat footed on the floor + raise my @rse off the seat to ajust my boxers like rossi lol


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i hate u!
i have the same problem pip, but my seat is already cut down and badly!
li know of a mail order place that will do ya seat, pm for details

oh, and i've had a look on the suzi site and they want 150 bucks for a gel seat, where did u see one cheaper then?