Are there certain stock seats that are more comfortable than others? I have an '04 and have already done the front raising mod but, if I am on the bike for more than 30 minutes, my butt starts going numb. I have been trying to find out about the sportster seats, which ones will fit, but haven't received any replies. Also, my wife won't ride with me because the back seat is uncomfortable to her.

I am giving up on the seats.. I have found a man that normally repairs boat seats to completely redo mine.. he is a formmer bike rider.. and could see the problem pretty quick.

Expected cost for memory foam, and both seats to be covered ~$100.

Pics when I get it back.

I had the same problem on my 07 S40. Some of mine was due to my height (6'1), and I needed some more "reach" to the seat.

The problem was where the pillion starts. It needed to be moved back a couple of inches, at least smoothed out.

I bought a Royal Riding gel seat pad, but couldn't get it in the right spot, just seemed to give me less room. I liked the material, but still just not right.

I took the seat off, removed most of the cover.

Electric carving knife and a fine grit sanding disc on my dremel. Cut away the harshness of the pillion down to the pan. Shaped the gel seat pad to fit the original seat design, cut out a "tailbone tunnel" in the gel seat.

Took a memory foam pillow and cut it to 1 inch thickness (using the electric knife) , covered the original seat and the gel material with the memory foam.  (Made a much more smooth and finished look under the cover)

Original cover went back on it (after some adjusting on the memory foam thickness) and tacked it back with a normal T50 Elite arrow stapler and 1/4 in staples.

Looks good,  feels so much better. Not a professional job, but i have about 70.00 bucks in materials and my time. I thought if I made a real mess I would get a pro to do it........and still may use that option, but for those willing to try stuff, it was kind of fun to attempt. It is definitely an improvement.  Warning though......sanding down the closed cell foam makes a MESS.

Safe ridin.

Scott

Is there any way you can put that seat on the S40 base even by cutting it down some.

What you might try, if you like the Shadow seat, is take the cover and padding of of the sock seat you have, then take the foam and cover off of the Shadow seat, and try to re-shape the bottom of the shadow seat foam to see if you can get that onto the Savage seat pan; probably be able to use the Shadow seat cover and staple it over.
Chances are that seat is longer too, as well as wider. Might take some surgery, but worth a look.

Save up your pennies and buy a Corbin and be done with it. Your wife will like it too.

arteacher wrote on 05/24/12 at 16:54:19:


A Corbin seat is near the top of my short wish list.  The types of materials and color combos is boggling!

rfw2003 wrote on 05/24/12 at 20:27:44:

Did you order it straight from the Corbin site?   I would love to know how that works out after you have several miles in that new seat. I have looked at them a couple of times.  That is why I did the mod to my stock seat.