Do you Fit Seat Test
02-03-2017, 07:28 AM
#21
Cool project, and I always have problems fitting seats (and helmets for that matter).
There is one important measurement you've missed. Hip width. All the manufactures think about that when designing a seat. (It's something women have to think about for anything manufactured for them, clothing, seats, anything.)
It's a fallacy to think that hip width is proportional to weight, for guys, it's got minimal correlation. Yet it is the most imporntat measurement if you are trying to do this objectively because it's gonna tell you if you're butt is gonna fit.
Measure horizontally around the widest part of the hips, or if the hips are essential straight vertically, then measure horizontally around the hips where the butt is widest/biggest.
For the seat, easiest way to learn where to measure is to simply have a couple of guys sit in the seats with their squivis on, and look where those measurements you just took correlate to where those areas of the hips and butt touch the seat and just use that as your measurement line. Measure all the areas of the butt, around the side of the hip and up to next to the hip to a point you'll have to standardize where it is above where anybody hips would not rise anymore. Don't measure just till the end of the edge of the seat as that will be different from one seat to another, yet have no bearing on what you are trying to measure (butt/hip size).
Again, a crucial measurement.
Thanks for letting me input, and please contact me if you have any questions.
There is one important measurement you've missed. Hip width. All the manufactures think about that when designing a seat. (It's something women have to think about for anything manufactured for them, clothing, seats, anything.)
It's a fallacy to think that hip width is proportional to weight, for guys, it's got minimal correlation. Yet it is the most imporntat measurement if you are trying to do this objectively because it's gonna tell you if you're butt is gonna fit.
Measure horizontally around the widest part of the hips, or if the hips are essential straight vertically, then measure horizontally around the hips where the butt is widest/biggest.
For the seat, easiest way to learn where to measure is to simply have a couple of guys sit in the seats with their squivis on, and look where those measurements you just took correlate to where those areas of the hips and butt touch the seat and just use that as your measurement line. Measure all the areas of the butt, around the side of the hip and up to next to the hip to a point you'll have to standardize where it is above where anybody hips would not rise anymore. Don't measure just till the end of the edge of the seat as that will be different from one seat to another, yet have no bearing on what you are trying to measure (butt/hip size).
Again, a crucial measurement.
Thanks for letting me input, and please contact me if you have any questions.
02-26-2017, 09:52 AM
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Hi Tougefactory - Can you let me know if a Bride Proface will fit inside the S2000? No-one ever seems to have this seat in stock. I'm somewhere in between person A and person B (5'10" 200lb, long torso, wide shoulders). Really, I am too fat for the S2000 lol.
Some feedback for others: I have a Racetech 4119HRW tall version and it fits in the S2000, but i'm forced to sit more upright and closer to the steering wheel because of roll bar. Also the soft top frame hits the seat when closed, so that seat is really no good for a full interior S2000 with soft top unless you are: 1. small, 2: have a hardtop, 3: am not worried about slow egress
Some feedback for others: I have a Racetech 4119HRW tall version and it fits in the S2000, but i'm forced to sit more upright and closer to the steering wheel because of roll bar. Also the soft top frame hits the seat when closed, so that seat is really no good for a full interior S2000 with soft top unless you are: 1. small, 2: have a hardtop, 3: am not worried about slow egress
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03-10-2017, 06:51 AM
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You say the Racetech fits in the S2000? So which rails are you guys using? There is also that chart that says the RT1000 isn't a good fit for someone taller than 5'11, which I am. Racetech also has the RT1000 on sale right now for 680. Do you guys price match at all?
03-10-2017, 07:09 AM
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We used buddy club rails. They did fit in the S2000. I believe the seat is fine for anyone 6'3 and under. We do price match.
