this thread is for the xxl guys. just curious as for the size of some riders and the mods weve done to accomodate us better on the scooters.
im 6'6, 295, havent done anything for comfort yet (1500 miles into the bike) but have a bid on some heli's right now, would love a cut/gel seat, and im planning on a buell peg mod.
next?
Im 6'4", 260 lbs. I put on a Corbin seat (had them scoop it 3/4" deeper), Heli-Bar risers, and most importantly, did the Buell footpeg mod. I found a guy on ebay that sells Buell footpegs slightly modded (and polished) to fit a Busa. Gives me about 1 1/4" more legroom and no ground clearance issues. Before I had the Buell footpegs I took the rubber off the stock footpegs, machined the lip at the end of the peg off, and put a piece of thin aluminum stairtread edge on the top of the peg. That helped with legroom a lot, but not as much as the Buell mod. Scooping the seat 3/4" did rob me of some of the legroom the Buell pegs added, but now I feel much more like Im sitting "in" the bike, as opposed to sitting on top of the bike. My previous ride was a Honda Blackbird, and I sat WAY deeper in that bike than on the stock Bus, so I was trying to get close to that ergonomically.
If you cant find a modded set of the Buells, it looks like the mod is easy to do on your own. Ya gotta play with the shift lever position, and the brake lever height after the Buells though. They wont be in line with your foot after those pegs are on the bike. I had to cut the "bolt" that adjusts the brake lever height about 1/4" to get enough travel to get the lever height correct. Its well worth the effort, though.
A couple of other things I did that were also easy and well worth it was to change that little POS rubber on the shift lever to a more substantial (Honda, I think) rubber. Made shifting a lot easier and less hard on the foot edge. I also heated and pulled the sidestand closer to the bike. That gave me a little better contact with the shift lever too. It DOES require fiddling with the end of the stand, cause the bike woulda been too upright on the stand otherwise. Also installed the Suzuki Double Bubble windscreen (which Im certain is a Puig). Now I can actually SEE the gauges, plus MUCH better wind protection.
All these things transformed the bike from a "sorta/kinda comfortable, sometimes knee killa bike" (
) to a REAL comfortable, all day/all night ride.
(One other thing that works excellent, but not really related to comfort... A GiPro ATRE gear position indicator/smart chip. Bike runs a little stronger in the low gears, and no more looking for 7th gear on the parkway.)