For quite a while, I've been using a “seat cushion” made from a thick slab of gel material as an addition to the seat on my GSA 1200. It’s pretty good, but when you’re beginning to suffer on very long trips, you can move your backside around on it all you like, but it always feels the same. After a near-2,000 mile trip to and back from the west coast of Ireland, I began to crave a bit more comfort.
As luck had it, one of the first adverts I saw was for an Oxford Air Seat, available in an “adventure & touring” or a “street & sport” form. The latter is slightly smaller and a little cheaper. And my bike shop had just added stocks of both to their shelves. I was getting tired of wincing every time I sat down, and the measurements of the “adventure & touring” version exactly matched the rider seat on my GS. A deal was soon done.
The seat is (I’m assuming, because I’ve never tried one), Oxford’s version of something like an Airhawk seat cushion. It comes with a mesh cover to the multi-compartmented rubberised inflatable cushion, two elasticated straps to fit round under the bike’s seat, and a natty little hand pump, to allow a customised level of cushioning. Mine cost me £70.
It was simplicity itself to fit, and five minutes fiddling with the pump got me a level of inflation that seemed to suit my (still tender) rear end. Several decent rides of 100 miles or so later, I’m persuaded this is a decent piece of kit.
I don’t recall seeing these things in Oxford’s plentiful magazine ads before now. The lad behind the counter thought they were fairly new on the market. One of my better purchases in the last few months.
Tom
As luck had it, one of the first adverts I saw was for an Oxford Air Seat, available in an “adventure & touring” or a “street & sport” form. The latter is slightly smaller and a little cheaper. And my bike shop had just added stocks of both to their shelves. I was getting tired of wincing every time I sat down, and the measurements of the “adventure & touring” version exactly matched the rider seat on my GS. A deal was soon done.
The seat is (I’m assuming, because I’ve never tried one), Oxford’s version of something like an Airhawk seat cushion. It comes with a mesh cover to the multi-compartmented rubberised inflatable cushion, two elasticated straps to fit round under the bike’s seat, and a natty little hand pump, to allow a customised level of cushioning. Mine cost me £70.
It was simplicity itself to fit, and five minutes fiddling with the pump got me a level of inflation that seemed to suit my (still tender) rear end. Several decent rides of 100 miles or so later, I’m persuaded this is a decent piece of kit.
I don’t recall seeing these things in Oxford’s plentiful magazine ads before now. The lad behind the counter thought they were fairly new on the market. One of my better purchases in the last few months.
Tom
