We received the Laam seats today in Knoxville! The seats were drop-shipped to my mothers residence. We have them on the bike, it was a tight fit but they are on. The build quality looks good. We have ridden on the seats for 1.2 miles so the final evaluation isn't
quite done yet.
Sordid details below, read only if bored out of your mind
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We left home on the stock seats which work well for some people, I'm not one of them. The whining and crying from the driver about the stock seat was awful. The candy-ass wimp massively interrupted the flow of the ride from NH to VA with lots of butt-breaks and messed up the ride for everyone else with us.
I had a message on my cell phone from Seth that the seats were done Thursday of last week so I called him back before noon Redding time. There was an issue with the post office not recognizing my mother's address. Seth had a melt-down over it because I couldn't solve the issue while standing on the road side in the middle of a ride. Hysterics and accusations flew from the other end of the phone. He told me he was going to explain the problem to be 6 times so I would understand what he was saying, and then proceeded to do just that, repeating exactly the same statement 6 times. I finally handed the phone to Good Pillion to deal with the screams and tears coming from Redding. He hung up on her before she had a chance to explain how to resolve the problem.
That afternoon I got a message from USPS showing that the seats were shipping second day -- to our house in New Hampshire. While I was out
drinking hard and telling tales visiting with the EOM crowd unbeknown to me Good Pillion called Seth and told him the seats were going to the wrong address. Seth says it was the fault of the incompetent shipper (who would that be?
). She wasn't sure if he had time to correct the shipping address so she didn't mention the call to me. It looks like the call that Good Pillion made did the trick. I'll keep 'er
The promised return shipping label to return the stock seats to NH wasn't in the seat box, but at this point I really don't care a lot.
It will probably be Tuesday or Wednesday before the seats get the first real day long use. We are looking forward to the real objective of this whole debacle to prove it was worth it. The ride back to NH is beginning to show hope of being much more pleasurable than the ride down.