Theoretically, your seat is at the same height/relative location as on any other bike. Unless you mount/dismount by swinging your leg in front of you, it's no different.

Or, if you're at the small end of the size range and there's a lot of beam sticking out behind your saddle, I guess that's a bit of an issue. That's my situation, but I attribute my mount/dismount problems more to clumsiness than that extra 6 inches of beam.

Never been an issue. Ever.

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Not that much of an issue. Beam loading/deflection on my Rocket was about an inch, on my TF it's about 1/4 inch. FWIW I weigh about 160.

I have ridden SF once. And, I do swing my leg to the front, not over the rear seat, where I generally have my water bottles sticking up. This is the single largest reason I am looking at the TF now.



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It's definately noticable, with the beam unweighted the seat is a bit higher than it would be otherwise. Doesn't seem like that extra 1-1.5" would be a big deal, but throw large bottles in a behind the seat holder and you have to do a pretty high leg lift to go over the back of the seat. As others have mentioned, the option is to mount in front of the seat, which due to the shape of the beam, lack of seatpost & deflection still requires kind of an awkward little leg lift to get onboard.

Is it a big deal? - not really. You get used to it

It's never been a problem with me. On the TT7/TT or FasTT if the beam is too long in the rear you can cut it. I had my bike mechanic cut some length off of mine and it was fine.

Just the opposite. I love my Softride for the flying mounts! ;) And I always do a rolling dismount. Usually swing a leg around the back but once I swung it around the front. No problems either way.

That's a good point, I cut a few inches off my beam. I think it looks better not to have a bunch sticking out anyway. Leaves more room for attaching tires, toolbag, etc. anyway.