After using this seat for a couple months, I decided to cut the rear rack grab bar off hoping that it would soften up that spot under this long seat and to be completely honest, I'm disappointed in how little it changed anything...and now I have a cut-up OEM rack for nothing.
The problem that I'm realizing is that even with this Motolord seat, the hardness under the seat right where my tail bone is was NOT from metal bar anymore (since it's gone), but from the mold of the seat itself which is shaped AROUND the bar. The design basically leaves almost no padding in the area directly above the bar:
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Since I've already chopped the grab bar off, this got me thinking about modifying the seat bucket mold as well. The only way to make this seat more comfortable now would be to cut out the part of the mold that is shaped around the garb bar and lower it (with fiberglass sheets?) while stuffing additional padding in there - Basically, increase the padding from 1/2" to 1.5 or 2"
This is the area I'm talking about:
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While I know how to turn a wrench, I have nearly zero experience working with fiberglass and this kind of project, so the only thing holding me back is the prospect of completely ruining this seat and being out a couple hundred bucks and right back to square one with the oem seat. Any tips or ideas would be welcome!