79 Miles at Heppner OR

[FFRDave]

The title should have been "monkey-butt 79"

I need to learn all I can about getting a softer seat for my 05 EC 250.

We went 25 miles on Friday, 33 miles on Saturday and 21 miles on Sunday morning.

It looks like I used about 3.5 to 4 gallons of gas for the whole 79 miles.

I went with some friends who were on 4WD quads. Their average speed must have been about 15 MPH, but I probably did more like 20 or 25 MPH. It was very dry, dusty and hot, but the ride was a total cake-walk because of the slow speeds numerous breaks and easy trails. There are a few single track trails at Heppner OR that a bike could easily go on, but the place is dominated by quads. We did see some deer and a flock of turkeys.

Over all a very good (albeit slow) weekend.

I will need a thicker foam seat-pad if I go again. The seat was my main limiting factor. These people like to just amble along at a slow speed hoping to see some animals. I enjoyed the scenery, and the animals too, but the seat time was a reall killer. I rode the second half of each run on each day standing up. I saw a post a while back about "big seatfoam", and thought it was really ugly and kinda dumb, butt now I understand .

Where can I get a big fluffy comfy seat for my 2005 GG EC 250 ??