Since owning the TA, for me the Achilles heel of the bike has been the comfort of the saddle, or to be more accurate the total lack of comfort.This didn't show up on my initial test ride on the bike as it only seems to get bad after the first hour or so of riding.

I think there were a number of problems with the original design. Firstly the cutaway fixes your body in one fixed position, it also slopes slightly forward and after a while it feel like the foam becomes compressed. I tried an AirHawk seat pad, which did more than double the endurance time in the seat but I still suffered from not being able to move around.

Seat with AirHawk

The solution came via a user of the XRV forum. He had modded a seat by the inclusion of extra foam in the cutaway, with the original covering material then stretched over.

Africa Queens also produce a similar seat-