05-23-2018, 01:25 AM
Quote:There are a couple of things that can make a long ride uncomfortable. The handlegrips are small in diameter and rock hard. They will cramp your throttle hand within an hour. However a pair of Grip Puppy slip-on foam covers can eliminate that.
I've never experienced the slightest bit of hand-cramp on my CB1100, and most of my rides are all-day affairs. I think hand-cramping is more a 'you' thing than a CB1100 thing.
Quote:The second complaint of most rides is the seat. I weigh close to what you do. Numb bum sets in after 1 1/2 hours. There are a number of ways to dealing with it. The Coleman MadDog seat pad is the least expensive, but will only give you an addition 1/2 hour of comfort. Others have tried air cushions, and various after market seats. The are numerous threads on this forum to read on this subject.
There is nothing wrong with the stock seat. The reason for the 'numb-bum syndrome' isn't the seat, it's the seating position. If the bike required a greater degree of forward lean, thus taking weight off of the tailbone, there would be less numbing. This would create other issues, but it would alleviate the butt numbing. The only way to avoid this issue with the current seating position would be to give the CB1100 a virtual easy chair of a seat, similar to those on an R1200RT or Goldwing. Otherwise, any bench seat on a standard seating-position motorcycle is going to cause numb-butt after a couple of hours.
The solution isn't to run through a bunch of different, uglier and uglier seats, hoping for some magic panacea. No, the solution is the easiest one imaginable. Simply get off of the seat. Stand on the pegs and pump your legs up and down every so often.
Problem solved.
I've never experienced the slightest bit of hand-cramp on my CB1100, and most of my rides are all-day affairs. I think hand-cramping is more a 'you' thing than a CB1100 thing.
Quote:The second complaint of most rides is the seat. I weigh close to what you do. Numb bum sets in after 1 1/2 hours. There are a number of ways to dealing with it. The Coleman MadDog seat pad is the least expensive, but will only give you an addition 1/2 hour of comfort. Others have tried air cushions, and various after market seats. The are numerous threads on this forum to read on this subject.
There is nothing wrong with the stock seat. The reason for the 'numb-bum syndrome' isn't the seat, it's the seating position. If the bike required a greater degree of forward lean, thus taking weight off of the tailbone, there would be less numbing. This would create other issues, but it would alleviate the butt numbing. The only way to avoid this issue with the current seating position would be to give the CB1100 a virtual easy chair of a seat, similar to those on an R1200RT or Goldwing. Otherwise, any bench seat on a standard seating-position motorcycle is going to cause numb-butt after a couple of hours.
The solution isn't to run through a bunch of different, uglier and uglier seats, hoping for some magic panacea. No, the solution is the easiest one imaginable. Simply get off of the seat. Stand on the pegs and pump your legs up and down every so often.
Problem solved.