Can you say “Ladies and Gentlemen, my kidneys have left the building”! Hardtails are definitely for hard tails all right, and no one is going to fault you for choosing to save your back and to keep riding Tri.
I am just ribbing you is all. I remember this seat, it was home made and looked like it was built for this bike, the trouble was that the carriage bolts wore through the tougher part of the padding (what there was of it.) The rounded end of these bolts would dig right into both sides of the hipbone, to this day I claim that it was the wind that made my eyes tear, but it really was that damn seat. This seat did its damage, and some day I expect to need medical attention for it, but it looked so cool Tri.
A rear-bobbed fender, real close to the seat can wake a fella up as well, doesn’t take long to wear out your 501’s should you end up to far back. Oh well you know what they say, chicks dig scars.
In an adjacent thread we came upon the topic of the Boss Hoss and I see a ton of stuff I could chop off, re-engineer to clean that bike up, to bad their so spendy, to bad the non-spendy ones (older bikes) are not so hot of a bike. The alternator hangs on the lower left side near the ground, why don’t they use a water pump with the alternator built into it and eliminate the eye sore.
Ride free, not for free...