The solo seat is my original worn out RS seat. Cut, modified and recovered

About 3600 km spread over 8 days. Have to wait for a little while until I can get long days of leave again to go for another long distance trip....

I decided to tackle the seat this week. The original seat was really tired and beat up. All those miles under my backside, much of it with a passenger, had taken its toll. There was an ancient tear...

Matches the lime perfect...

Ride started 1800m above sea level to 10m, strict legal speeds of 90~110 km/h with a 1 off top speed of 125km/h...

I had a leisurely time touring the temples, including the Niomon Gate at Futagoji Temple. ...

Equipped with portable hotel on the back. Good food, ice cold beers and a bed like home. Lots of fun in the supertight river valleys, the ever reliable Bings always there to stand it all back up again...

DIY Bates Desert Racer Seat...

The seatcovers on these seats are stretched around the foam and then over the lip on the pan. While it's been done this way for decades without serious problems, that lip seemed awfully sharp to me,...