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Yo Ken,
I did find a product used to cool a baby seat that is about the right size:
Baby Bee Cool - Car Seat Coolerpad

It uses reusable ice packs and supposedly keeps a baby seat cool for ten hours. Granted, that is more than you need as I am sure you haven't worked more than four hours in a single stretch in your life. Then again, it could be useful for long sessions at the bar, but would ten hours be enough? If you could stuff a few more beers into the seat and it kept them cool long after last call at the bar then I would say it represents a solution.

Anyhoo, I think the Babybeecool will sell much better than a product I designed years ago- the infamous Infantsizzler. Still waiting for phone calls on that one.

As for active cooling using DC power, there we must turn to the automotive world. There is no reason you can't order a cooling seat designed for cars and slap it over the seat of your bike. Sure, those cooling seats suck more amps than a microwave at a Seven Eleven which is offering a manager's special on Macho Grande Burritos, but those are the break(er)s.

If your pockets are really deep, then consider this solution that Uncle Sugar funded:
New Product Research and Development, Engineering Innovation and Technology, New Equipment Design and Development - Foster-Miller

Back in the day (early 70s) we used to use a very advanced technology to keep ourselves from being branded by vinyl seats on a hot summer day. We called it- the Towel®. We draped the Towel® over our bench seats and climbed in with impunity. Of course we then slapped our seatbelts on and screams erupted as we writhed in agony as the GM emblem was seared into our youthful hides.

Good times, they were. Good times.

 

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Howdy 'Hawk,

Jim Davis of Eastern Beaver is not the same as Jim Davis of Motomorphic. They don't even appear to be Doppelgangers. If they were, of course, at least one would speak fluent German.

 

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Yo Ken,

The !Kung tribe (the ones who speak in clicks and clacks) of Southern Africa has a cool term for the young men of their tribe. They call them "shade experts".

Anyway, I was just being snarky and jealous about the idea of 90 degree temperatures. It gets that hot here. It happens at least once a century.

I think a few of those umbrella girls from Moto GP races are the true solution.

 

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The seatbelts on old cars sure did leave a lot to be desired. I loved the separate lap belt/shoulder (neck?) belt arrangement that many cars had.

If the seatbelts didn't get you then the metal dashboard certainly would.

On the upside the cigarette lighters on 70's cars would work underwater, so at least you could enjoy a healthy unfiltered camel or two as the water ominously swirled around your waist. You could struggle against the inevitable, but why bother? Those camels sure were smooth...

 

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My brother used to have a '68 GTX that had those belts. I don't remember that the belts had any give to them. If you dropped your can of Miller Hig...I mean, if you dropped your copy of Ladies Home Journal you had to unclip your shoulder belt to retrieve said item.

Those belts are a thing of the past. How can you rummage under the front seat while you are bombing down the highway in your SUV O'Death without some give in the shoulder belt? Progress!

 

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Dearest Sachi,

Special thanks for expanding my vocabulary. I get the sensation that as the cold years pass my vocabulary is shriveling. I am sure you can barely imagine the kicks I got out of adding Orchiectomy to my sack of words. I don’t know when I will get the opportunity to pull it out and use it, however.

In many ways, I have only yet begun to scratch the surface of the English language. Indeed, my choice of words could be considered quite pathetically lopsided towards the plebian. Further, when it comes to the fine art of grammar, I am certain it is obvious that grammar was never really my bag. Sweat and toil can only take me so far. All too often- at the end of the day -my participles are still left dangling.

 

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Wasn't Dr. Richard Ballzac the one who was falsely accused of killing his wife only to escape from incarceration, ultimately bringing the REAL killers to justice AND removing a dangerous medication from the market?

I can see why you chose him to be a spokesman for your product. He brings a certain gravitas to the Comfy Cutout Motorcycle Seat Company, in fact.