old_rider wrote on 06/21/13 at 08:32:34:WD wrote on 06/20/13 at 13:29:09:Hope you are small or have modified the bike to fit... I rode from Long Beach MS to Pensacola FL and back in a day. On a stone stock 98, in the summer. Pain and agony, didn't ride it again for almost a month. Started modifying the bike to be a better fit shortly thereafter.
The last real road trip was only a couple hundred miles in a day. Bike did fine, I did fine.
Each rider is going to have to discover on his own what his limit is. Height, time of day, time of year, seat, peg/floorboard location, etc are all going to play major roles in what you can do on your bike. Start out with a few shorter trips and work your way up. There's no rush, you aren't going to wear the bike out any time soon.
Keep it fun, if it hurts, you've surpassed your current sitting tolerance.
Very good advice,
Since the savage I took up to NC was the wifes I did not modify it. The only problems I really had were my butt got numb and I felt like I was sitting on a bar stool with my legs half tucked.
If I get me a savage (1st on my list after selling other bikes) I will get peg extenders and shop around for a cushy seat I can modify to fit, I would also fab me up a backbrace sissybar setup. Also I might change out the bars to a mini ape type or put a spacer (riser) under the horns.
If you are coming up in Sept, you can test sit mine, no problem. Might even be back in service by then. 15" rise bars, Kawi VN800A seat or the stock front pan with a 3/4" thick solo seat, half moon floorboards (Panhead replicas), 1970s N.O.S. grips, decent mirrors instead of the stock junkers... And real rear shocks off my wife's mildly customized 96 800 Intruder (her bike has 98 Savage shocks now, Memphis windshield and lowers, Mustang Royal Duke seat, fishtail mufflers) since we needed to lower hers a good bit.