Long Haul Seat with Rider Backrest

CanberraR3 said:

This is the seat I have and as far as I recall Jim, it's the one you have. It's not a gel seat though. There is/was a dual gel seat but it had a slightly different shape, smaller pillion seat and no back rest as I recall.
The long haul seat from the Touring will not fit a Roadster.

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R3RCAN said:

Thank You everyone for the help on this. One last questions, can someone tell me why the long haul for the R3T will not fit the R3R. I understand the new long haul comes in two pieces, the rider bucket and the passenger. Not having access to the touring bike I cannot figure out why the seat shouldn't fit the roadster.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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cadconversions said:

The long haul and the classic are the same seat - with the exception that the classic doesn't have the precut hole for the backrest. Nice seats but it will lower your seating position on a roadster to the classic height and you may not like the difference if you are longer legged like myself.... that's why I have a classic listed for sale in the forums here.

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och2pot said:

I've just bough a secondhand Classic seat but it doesn't quite fit straight on my 2010 Roadster. The rear separate pillion mounting bracket is about 10mm too long , so the "spike" for the click-on seat catch is 10mm too far back for the seat hole. I'm about to re-drill the 3 front holes for the allen screw fixings to the mudguard, with some spacer washers, to bring it into line then should work OK.
No idea why there's this 10mm difference, but there it is.
The rider part front mounting spike is correctly placed, and without the rear bracket the Classic seat sits in place end clicks into place fine, but as soon as the rear bracket is fixed it won't fit!

And yes the rider's position is a bit lower, but the pillion is about the same so my wife can see over my shoulders better. Roll on better weather to ride in!

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