rider comfort

[CanberraR3]

I frequently pop my feet back on the pillion pegs when on a trip. Not ideal but it gets the weight off my tail bone and gets the blood flowing again. Best to hold off shifting around as long as possible. Generally start out on the stock pegs then move my feet forward to the highway pegs. This will do me for the first 200kms. Then every half hour or so I spend about 5 minutes with my feet back. Having a riders back rest is good too because I can push back on it and lift my bum off the seat. If all else fails, stop for a few minutes and walk around. I can generally get through a tank of fuel without too much discomfort, especially if the road has some twists and turns.

And as TC says, I reckon the classic dual touring seat isd the most comfortable I've used.

 

[dave64]

I have the classic dual touring seat and find it not good for me , about 100ks or so the bum gets sore. When out for a long day over 300ks i am in agony by the end of it.

I went back to the stock seats on the weekend and found it more comfortable but was only a short trip so time will tell, i also imagined maybe that the bike felt to run better ? is it possible the the touring seat was restricting air to the stock filter box or something?

 

[CanberraR3]

I can only imagine if one of them had the hamster run snorkel removed from under the seat it might seem to run better than one with it, depending on ambient temperature.

 

[HansO]

I originally bought the riders and pillions gel seats and while they were better than the std the riders stil has the same problem and that is the shape of the seat pan has a hump on it causeing you to be pushed forward a bit. I have been experimenting with my original seat by levelling out the seat pan from the hump forward with some extra heavy duty foam that has almost no give this effectively make the pan base level I had to cut some of the original foam out and this seemed pretty good, still experimenting thu
I'll post some pictures in morning when I get home

 

[zenbiker]

On the Corbin site, it seems as though they do not use the latching mechanism I have on my 2007 Classic. How is the Corbin released? Does it need to be unbolted each time?

 

[HansO]

On the Corbin site, it seems as though they do not use the latching mechanism I have on my 2007 Classic. How is the Corbin released? Does it need to be unbolted each time?

yes but there is a thread here somewhere to convert the cobin to use the original latch.... hang on .... here it is.....
http://www.r3owners.net/custom-mods/13157-corbin-seat-key-mount-how.html

 

[zenbiker]

Thanks, Hanso...I'll think on it.

 

[barbagris]

I have been experimenting with my original seat by levelling out the seat pan from the hump forward with some extra heavy duty foam that has almost no give this effectively make the pan base level I had to cut some of the original foam out and this seemed pretty good, still experimenting thu
I'll post some pictures in morning when I get home

Cut that bump vertically down about 1/2" behind where you want your tail bone to be. Dish out two recesses for your Ischia (bum bones). Reduce the stock foam height by 15mm-ish (slightly more in the seat centre) and sick an 18mm Gel pad in. That's what I did to the dual (classic) and it made a hell of a difference.

I'm going to be fitting a different pad.
I have the bottom one in right now - going to the top one - which has just come into production - they're on their way from the UK.
I may sink the foam further still and have 36mm Gel - not decided.

 

[cardinal93]

On the Corbin site, it seems as though they do not use the latching mechanism I have on my 2007 Classic. How is the Corbin released? Does it need to be unbolted each time?

I have a Corbin Fast gun on my 07 classic, used stock latch... Not sure about the duals though

 

[dougl]

I had a Corbin Dual Touring with backrest on an R3 and the seat is too hard - not comfortable. Russell Day Long with backrest seems like the best out there.

I have the Triumph Dual Touring with backrest and while better than the Corbin, I get sore, but that's partly because I'm 64.