Building A Hard Tail

Hard Tail is a term used to describe a motorcycle without rear suspension. Most all of the Cannonball motorcycles are known as a hardtails. Mix that style of motorcycle with 4100 miles in 16 days and you will find the need of another sort of hardtail to endure this event. My daily driving vehicle is a 2007 Honda Element. This SUV has a real cushy drivers seat. In the discussion of preparing my body for this event, many changs in lifestyle have occurred. Physical training, bicycle riding, diet changes, and several other things have become a training pattern to prepare myself. One of my mentors asked me one day how I was preparing my "rear end" for this ride. I told him all of the above things. He challenged me to another concept, which made me laugh when I first heard it, but after a few days, it occurred to me that he was seriously giving me some advice that could make a big difference in my physical conditioning.

Being the extreme minded individual that I am, we went straight to work on this concept. I found a used Honda Element drivers seat and stripped it to the seat frame. Then, we fabricated a custom mount to install a solo pan motorcycle seat.

 So, for the last few weeks, this has been my drivers seat in my 2007 Honda Element. I get quite a few odd looks when someone sees this seat.
You know that feeling when someone looks at this seat set up, then looks back at you and has that odd look and then walks away. I have seen a few of those looks. My wife says, "That's the end of her driving this car!