I finally got to demo ride the icon scrambler today. I don't like the seat position. The very front part is flat. But I can't sit on the very front since that is too forward and unnaturally cramped. So in the natural seating position, I noticed the seat slopes upward. So it felt like I was sitting on a hump. The slant felt like the hump was right on my tailbone. I found this to be very uncomfortable. I don't understand why the slope to the hump isn't further back.
So instead of describing the seat as being too hard I'd say the slope of the seat seems wrong.
Is this slope what you consider to soften and become more comfortable? And become more flat perhaps with the break in?
And is anyone shaving their seat to become flat in the seating area?
gopam,
if you take the seat off and look at the base it is shaped much like the foam but more so, I'll try to describe as best I can.
The front of the seat has 4 to 5 inches of foam and if you can sit well forward is actually not too bad and does break in / soften. If you follow the shape of the top of the seat, where it slopes up toward the back, about half way along, the base does the same thing but more extreme, the base rises so much the foam goes from its 4 to 5 inches to about 1 1/2. So when I sit in a position that's comfortable I'm on a slope and half on deep foam and half on shallow foam and can feel the ridge of the seat base. Bloody uncomfortable
It's a crap design.
The comfort seat by adding 25mm of foam will reduce the ability to feel the ridge in the seat base, I haven't seen one but I suspect that it will be shaped the same as the original which means it will still have the slope towards the back. Probably still crap just not as crap.
All that said, my comfort seat is on order, either it will work or I'll use the base and have it redone by a seat specialist.
