| Author | Message | ||
     Stickysheets |
you guys have been awesome at getting my blast up and running. now that ive been able to drive it for extended periods of time, i have noticed the seat is terribly uncomfortable for me. i would like to purchase a new seat asap,but the prices seem to vary a lot. is it worth spending almost 400 on a corbin? what do you guys like, dislike, or suggest looking into or comparing. all thoughts apreciated. | ||
| Indybuell |
Send it to Sargents. | ||
| Stickysheets |
i appreciate the input, any, uhm, less expensive options? | ||
| Cgent |
Love my Sargents ... around $325-$350 ... http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/201 64/714595.html?1372999082 | ||
| Ezblast |
LOL - that is the less expensive option, 90% of diy seats suck - I like Corbin, but they need slight mods to fit correctly, and are pricey. Saddlemans, Baldwin, and others fall in between. EZ (Message edited by ezblast on September 03, 2013) | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Watch eBay or the Badweb classifieds for a Corbin. Not only are they more comfortable, they transform the bike into feeling like a bigger bike (in a good way). Even a damaged Corbin can be fixed. Granted, everybody is different and not all stock seats are the same. But unless you want to buy up stock seats, there isn't a reliable way to tell the difference. But Corbins are still better. Even Corbin occasionally has a sale! And if you are paying full price for a Corbin, check with Corbin first. It used to be that the Corbin could be made custom at no additional cost!!!! | ||
| Stickysheets |
Ah, Gearhead awesome thank you. I've been having so much fun riding this thing, I'll probably take my time and shop for a couple weeks. Whatever i end up getting ill post up. Thanks again for all your input guys, i'm stoked to start adding contrast to the bike. | ||
| Blueblast |
I didn't see this mentioned or asked about in this thread, maybe it was in an earlier one (?) but do you have the regular seat or the "low" model? My wife's had and mine had the "Low" seat when I got it, and it was uncomfortable for me for any length of time over say 15 minutes. That being said, the regular height seat is much better and can be had for a little over a hundred bucks. I think mine was $116 plus shipping from Lake Shore HD among other places. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
And not surprisingly there is no guarantee you'll get the same low or tall seat. There are soft and hard low seats as well as soft and hard tall seats. My original tall seat was uncomfortably soft and my low seat was comfortably firm. I got a tall seat that was a very comfortable firm (almost like it had springs inside). We all have different seats and even though there are only 2 stock height seats available, they are not all the same (though there are at least 4 different part numbers). On the plus side if you buy a tall seat and don't like it you'll be able to get your money back. If you buy a low seat, don't pay a lot because they go cheap and can be hard to sell. FWIW! | ||
| Stickysheets |
I could see why the low ones would be harder to sell, seeing how the bike is so low in the first place. i honestly am not sure off the top of my head, i bought it from a very short person, (and i myself am 6 almost 6'1) so i wouldnt be surprised if it was lower. is there an easy way to check without having a different seat in comparison, like a part number perhaps? | ||
| Stickysheets |
After checking a bunch of the blasts on craigs list i believe i may have the low seat. It appears to dip more before the strap than the others seem to. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
No. It's easy to tell the difference between low and tall, but there isn't any way to tell soft and hard, even by part number. Perhaps if one had 30 or so seats from the 10 years of production one could find a pattern in production, but I haven't seen a reliable way yet without doing so. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Sorry. Yes, low seat has a dip. The tall seat is flat. Low seat looks more sporty! At 6'6" the low seat would be extremely cramped! At 5'6" it's tolerable! | ||
| Stickysheets |
So, I found a Corbin seat for 140. Problem is - seller lives in different state, I can only see a picture of it, and it looks like the seat has a low dip. Do Corbins also make low custom seats? Or is it all just one generic seat that has a slight dip in it? Sorry for the monotonous questions. Id just be heated if i bought a new seat that had the same problem..  | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Most Corbins have a dip, unless custom. The one on the other page you commented on looks custom. But the standard Corbin looks much like that one. At $140, you'll easy get your money back if you don't like it. At that price it won't stick around long. |
