Comfortable Motorcycle seat for street riding

[tsorfas]

as the title says. my boy has an R1 with a Saddlemen Tech and i rode it yesterday it was extremely comfortable!
He said it the gel gets kinda hard as the temperature drops though. I temp to ride regardless of cold or hot so it might not work out for me. http://www.corbin.com/suzuki/gsxr105.shtml
https://www.denniskirk.com/saddlemen...prd/456678.sku

I found this one online from Corbin. ANyone have experience with them or any other suggestions?
http://www.corbin.com/suzuki/gsxr105.shtml

[Pittenger5]

Wife has a corbin on her SV. Stupid comfortable. Cant speak on cold weather though.

[DaveZX6r]

There are lots of guys our there that will reupholster your stock seat for around 100 bucks. I'm probably going to get a junk seat and try my hand at it over the winter.

[reks95]

Previous owner put a sargent on my striple and I have to say that it's pretty good.

[RandyO]

ANyone have experience with them or any other suggestions?
http://www.corbin.com/suzuki/gsxr105.shtml

anyone elses experience really has nothing to do with the shape of your ass

saddles are like helmets, people have different shaped heads and they have different shaped asses, I would try to test ride someone elses first, you may find you have a Sargent shaped ass

or you could go custom like Russel Day Long

[Sheppo]

Ive ridden some bikes with corbins and they rock on others not so much, on other bikes sargents rock and on others not so much.. as they say there is a seat for every ass and an ass for every seat. If you want a custom seat I can hook you up with MDM upholstery in MErrimack NH. He's good and a buddy. He'll insert gel or what ever you want and if you want pink alligator skin, He'll do that too.

[tsorfas]

That's a bit of a haul but I guess we can do everything via shipping

[Sheppo]

shipping works or the NESR express handoff works too.

[nhbubba]

I've been mulling this over for a while (far too long actually!) myself. The V-Strom seat isn't that great. And it is probably the last crappy thing left on this bike. I've thrown wads of money at nearly everything else.

My angle is that for what Corbin and the like charge for their mass produced seats, you might as well buck up and go full custom.

I will probably go for a Russell Day Long this winter. There are just too many very satisfied customers.

Hoping to plant my ass in Clayton's Russell equipped V-Strom one of these days before I order, just to really pound home the idea.
They even sell for reasonable money on the forums and fleabay.. even though they are custom!

[TheIglu]

You'll ride it at the Gap. Then I'll have to get prehistoric on you to get my bike back.

Russell Day Long. Everything else just is a guess at what you will find comfortable.


If I ever get another bike for commuting/distance to replace the Wee, that is my FIRST mod, hands down.

[tsorfas]

shipping works or the NESR express handoff works too.

Sweet! I might take you up on that. Would rather give the money to someone we know. Any chance you come up next race weekend?

[nhbubba]

Russell Day Long. Everything else just is a guess at what you will find comfortable.

That's basically the opinion I've come down to. Tired of buying stuff that is almost. I'm hiring the expert this time.

That and I've thrown enough money at that damned bike. What's another couple hundred?! Go big or go home, eh?

You'll ride it at the Gap. Then I'll have to get prehistoric on you to get my bike back.

The thing uses the same pan, right? Loan it to me for a day, especially if you still take two bikes and wind up on the SV for a day. Keep the bike, I already have one of those.

[TheIglu]

That would work too. But I'm more attached to that RDL than the Wee....

Yes, still taking the SV too. Brought it up to Curtis Ribs a day early


Savas, RDL is spendy, but the best you can press you shitter against.

[tsorfas]

How can someone make "custom" seat though? Like what is he gonna do different than the generic big company? Measure my ass or something?

[TheIglu]

How can someone make "custom" seat though? Like what is he gonna do different than the generic big company? Measure my ass or something?

Yes. Exactly that.


Weight, height, inseam, body shape, pictures of you on the bike standing and with feet on the pegs. Double everything if you have a passenger, they make that part of the seat custom to their shitter too.

[tsorfas]

Get the fuck out of here! That serious huh? I might have to drop the coin.

[nhbubba]

That serious.

There is another guy-or maybe the same one-where you can go visit. They will mock up a seat straight away, have you test sit it and stuff and make adjustments on the spot. Naturally you have to bring yourself and bike to some place in Indiana or whatever armpit of the universe they are based at.

But yeah.

The appeal of this Russell guy for the bikes Clayton and I have is that he does a lot of V-Strom and V-Strom-like seats. Not sure he's done any sport bike seats.

Derp.. I'm completely wrong:

Some sort of CBR:


R1:


An SV:


Although that SV has carbs.

[tsorfas]

I'm impressed

[RandyO]

Get the fuck out of here! That serious huh? I might have to drop the coin.

If your going to Cali, you can even schedule a ride in

[Chippertheripper]

Those are pretty much the grossest seats ever.
I'm usually a function>form kinda guy, like 99.9% of the time, but this is that .1%.

[tsorfas]

If your going to Cali, you can even schedule a ride in

Sheppos guy is in NH lol

[nhbubba]

...this is that .1%.

It totally depends on what you intend to do with your bike. Right tool for the job, and all that.
Clayton and I are talking V-Stroms anyway... not exactly strangers to the term 'gross'.

[RandyO]

Sheppos guy is in NH lol

normally, I'm a support the local vendor person, but in this instance, me thinks Russell is the better bet for guaranteed comfort

[Sheppo]

Sav I will be up in the 15th for the Larry lap, but don't let that sway you. Call and talk to him and make sure .

[tsorfas]

Sav I will be up in the 15th for the Larry lap, but don't let that sway you. Call and talk to him and make sure .

Ya why not! Pm me contact info ill give him a call this week.