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most comfy, all-day touring seat?
Written by yankeesmuggler on 6/16/2010 at 02:48 pm

I used the stock seat back in July, 1998 when I bought my 1998 PC800
new from the dealer (too bad more people didn't). During the first
week of ownership I rode to Marysville, Ohio for the 1998 Honda
Homecoming. Half way there, about 3 hours, I knew I'd be shopping the
vendors for a new seat. I bought a Corbin seat which I used until the
end of 2004. It was a great upgrade from the stock seat for me, but it
seemed to get firmer and firmer over the years and the lower seat
height bothered me with the hard armor in the knees of new riding
pants I was wearing. It also didn't help the comfort situation for me
to upgrade my rear shocks to Hagon brand while still using the Corbin.
I used an AirHawk for a while with this set up just to raise me up and
cushion the jarring from the Corbin/Hagon combo. I'm not sure I'd like
to have to deal with the AirHawk all the time making sure I secured it
in the trunk each time I leave the bike, but it felt great. One nice
feature of it was having air flowing under your seat while riding.
Especially noticeable on those cold morning...brrrrrrr.

In 2005 I had Rick Mayer built a seat for me and my maiden voyage with
it was a 5 week ride out to Leland's PCH ride and back. Great ride,
great seat, so much better than the Corbin and the stock seat. I know
some guys have no complaints about the stock seat.. more power to
them. I bought the leather version of the seat from Rick and it is
holding up well after about 87,000 miles of use. This year I started
using Doc Bailey's Black leather treatment and it works great as a
waterproofer and restorer back to new looking leather.

Tim Davies
Seneca Falls, New York 13148
'98 Honda Pacific Coast "Yankee Smuggler II"
"Yankee Smuggler I" (Retired at 124,000 mi.)

IPCRC #4 : AMA #688662
"The ride is the objective, the destination is the excuse!"


On Jun 16, 2010, at 10:28 AM, richardslatin wrote:

> What your experiencing in having the best seat?
>
> Stock?
> Corbin?
> Airhawk?
> Gel?
> Custom?
> ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
> Phoenix, AZ
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