A lower seat sir? That'll be £101.

So, still vaguely considering a DL 1000.

If one were to buy new (or second hand for that matter), the standard seat
height is 84cm.

Suzuki sell a lower seat that drops it to 82cm. The thing is, you can't
order this seat for a new one. You have to get the higher one and BUY the
lower one in addition. Thus ending up with two seats - one of which will
just sit in the garage as it's highly unlikely anyone's going to want to buy
the 'normal' seat.

Suzuki Customer Services explained it to me as "they come over in a big box
with all the bits and therefore we can't change the seat. I do see your
point, it does seem strange, but we can't do anything at all about it".

Apparently no one has ever questioned this before.

 

That's because short people tend to just get beaten up when the ask
questions.

 

Perhaps she was hitting the phone really hard?

 

**** that, if you can't find a dealer to haggle one in for free then things
have come to a fine pass.

If all else fails, get Champ to send them a complaint.

 

Telephone assault. I'd drag the bitch through the courts IIWY.

On a slightly more serious note I can see their point about the seat.
If they were to start supplying the bike with various seats where does
it stop? "Can I get some different clipons please, these hurt my
wrists"?

Sarah had no end of trouble trying to find a bike with a low enough
seat height. Dealers just couldn't get their head around the idea
that she struggled with bikes like the Hornet.

Short people are to biking what vegitarianism is to the French.

 

I've no sympathy with either group, I'm afraid. TBH though, I've
always found that most bikes seem to be designed for a japanese
midget, so for us normal-sized people they're often, literally, a pain
in the neck.

 

Yes, possibly - but they don't offer alernative clipons - they do offer
alternative seats.
Therefore it's not inconcievable to make them a factory option.

I don't mind paying for 'extras', say a gel version - but I think it's a bit
much to charge £100 for a seat that's exactly the same - just less of it.

Except I'm not that short and I'm not complaining or struggling to find one
I can fit on

 

Well... I've already got them to drop the OTR price by a fair bit so one
could argue they already have but yes, some more haggling potentially.

Now there's a plan.

 

Surely getting someone to slice 2cm of foam off the standard seat would
be a lot cheaper? Someone of your weight isn't going to sink through to
the seatpan with a bit less foam. If you keep the excess you can always
stick it back in again when you sell the bike & nobody will be any the
wiser.

 

To be frank I'm still trying to figure out just how much difference there is
in 2cm!

And I haven't yet figured out how I'm financing any of this so it's
theoretical pie in the sky at the mo.

 

Ask them to buy the spare tall seat back from you.

 

I somehow don't see that working.

Maybe I should just get bigger shoes.

 

# Kum On Feel The Noyz ...

 

that's not tall!

 

I thought Willy Wonka had some kind of employe anti-biker policy, you were
saying?

 

Why did you say "TBH"?

 

dwb fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

What they actually have a "Customer Services " department now?



--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

You what? That's only for doing company business - they don't give a hoot
what one does in their own time.


(Willy Wonka?!)

 

What was the RGS as a matter of interest as IIRC you are a similar height to
me and found that a bit tall?

 

Short working day though.