Comfortable Seat!

[JemandSi]

Hi all,

Has anyone looked at changing the seat on your LC RT? it seems hour and a half to two hours gets very uncomfortable for myself.

I have had a look at the Touratech 'comfort' seat - anyone got any experience?

or any other options, I was thinking air hawk but I don't want something I need to remove form the bike overtime I park as its used for my business.

thanks

 

[Karlread]

Get an airhawk or wear a pair of padded cycling shorts under your riding gear

 

[JemandSi]

padded cycling shorts wouldn't be the best look for turning up to meetings in!

 

[DC]

my friend has just got the sergeant ones last week ,,he might be out this week so I'm waiting for an update on how he finds them …..expensive but apparently the best

 

[Wrigsby1]

Get an airhawk or wear a pair of padded cycling shorts under your riding gear

I've used an Airhawk for years on many a bike and its could make a crap GS seat into a 700+ mile seat... Budget in the at least 1/2 inch seat rise and the fact that the neoprene ones are exxxxpensive... I am looking at my own 12RT hex and wondering what to do re the seat as the stock seat in average but heated... Was thinking of Sargeant as well... The only stock seat I have really liked for big miles was the original K comfort seat with the proper "arse shape"...

 

[Dennis the Menace]

If your are on a standard seat set on the low position, try it on the high position, it wont cost you anything

 

[wreck diver]

Get yourself an off cut of sheepskin and a bit of elastic
It works for me.

 

[Manofleisur]

If your are on a standard seat set on the low position, try it on the high position, it wont cost you anything

Not sure about the LC but it sure works on the Hexhead !!!

 

[GSTourer]

I have a 2010 RT and find the seat very uncomfortable after about an hour or so. I am going down the 'sheepskin' route as I don't want to spend loads on a new 'comfy' seat only to find it more/just as uncomfortable as my present one.

 

[Dennis the Menace]

Why do you think a sheep skin will be comfortable ?

 

[JemandSi]

Definitely on the high position, might have to give the air hawk a go. the sergeant looks good but at £600 including the heating elements, that is a lot of money!!

 

[Dennis the Menace]

I would go for the Air Hawk the extra hight it gives, would may be improve your riding position

 

[kennyc]

Why do you think a sheep skin will be comfortable ?

popular with the Iron Butt crowd, I suppose the sheepskin spreads the load in the same way as an Airhawk

 

[Dennis the Menace]

Try and compare a sheep skin to an Air Hawk, BMW must spend millions of Euros on designing a bike so it looks good, then some one goes and throws half a dead sheep on it. People should spend more time on a test ride to make sure the bike fits
Wearing cycling shorts under motorcycle clothes, how odd

 

[kennyc]

Try and compare a sheep skin to an Air Hawk, BMW must spend millions of Euros on designing a bike so it looks good, then some one goes and throws half a dead sheep on it. People should spend more time on a test ride to make sure the bike fits
Wearing cycling shorts under motorcycle clothes, how odd

you must have fallen out on the "feckin miserable side" today. unlike BMW's humans are different shapes and sizes, and what have looks got to do with comfort?

 

[igormortis]

I think a big part of what a sheepskin does is provide airflow. The density and loft creates pockets of air so you don't get numb bum hotspots. Which is why quality is important - if you get a limp old one you lose those air pockets.

 

[Dennis the Menace]

I think a big part of what a sheepskin does is provide airflow

What do you think an Air Hawk does

 

[Dennis the Menace]

what have looks got to do with comfort?

I see you are a senior member I keep forgetting how some old people don't care how they look

 

[kennyc]

I see you are a senior member I keep forgetting how some old people don't care how they look

not all of us are Narcissists, some of us have aches and pains (but fewer with a comfortable seat)

 

[frog-n-flymo]

Seamless non-cotton skiddies, changing for them on longer runs definitely made my GS a 300+ a day bike, I find the standard seat on the LC RT fine with that, not found my top end for comfort yet.

One extra bonus, the heated seat will work through them too.