November 15th, 2015, 08:57 AM | #1 |
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ASTech seats?
I know this question is a bit more cruiser oriented, but I figure having a more comfortable seat is a fairly universal need, and there's a pretty big variation of people here- Does anyone have any experience with astech seat? I'm setting up an FZ-07 for a cross country trip in a couple months, and the corbin seat option looks as horrible as it is expensive, so I was hoping for an alternative. These guys so far have given me the most reasonable quote.
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November 15th, 2015, 09:43 AM | #2 |
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no, but they totally missed an opportunity by not adding an s to the middle of the name
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November 15th, 2015, 09:47 AM | #3 |
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Never heard of them but I can tell you the Corbin I put on my 2005 VFR800 Interceptor is the most comfortable mc seat I've ever owned! I've done more than a few 1000+ km days on it too. It's about 1250 km between Vancouver & Calgary. Ride to, sleep, turn around & ride home. Less discomfort at the end of each day than sitting in my office chair all day!
In my case; worth every penny! Your experience may vary!
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Actually, now that you mention it, I wonder if corbin does reshaping/padding stock stuff too. I think they're local. I'll call and ask tomorrow when they open |
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November 15th, 2015, 06:11 PM | #5 |
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Check out http://greatdaytoride.com/Home_Page.php too. I've heard good things about Spencer, but no personal experience.
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November 15th, 2015, 07:24 PM | #6 |
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Check out seat concepts, it looks like they have a seat for you maybe?
I have their seats on both of my bikes I run major miles on and love them. http://seatconcepts.com/products#!/Y...tegory=1671359
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This has been tremendously more helpful than asking all my race buddies who, like myself, have all spent years building bikes to be less comfortable in favor of short term performance, haha |
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November 16th, 2015, 09:08 AM | #8 |
CVMA/AFM #72
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Aww, scratch the greatdaytoride.com guy. Apparently he's never worked on an FZ-07 before (Or even gotten to see one in person), so until he's test ridden and had a chance to handle and understand the seat, he won't accept any work on them.
That does sound like it bodes really well for the other seats he works on, as he obviously cares a lot about doing work that he knows will be satisfactory, but it sucks for me, haha........ T_T |
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January 2nd, 2016, 09:37 AM | #9 |
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Not sure if anyone else cares about the outcome of this, but I thought I'd check in in case anyone else is looking to get this done in the future or looking at this specific company- after combing the internet, looking at a bunch of other options, and talking to corbin and a few other places about having the seat redone (They won't reshape a stock seat, it turns out), I ended up taking the gamble on ASTech in Indiana.
I shipped off my seat, they called me once they received it to make sure they knew exactly what I wanted, had it done the same day, then shipped it back. The whole process took around a week and a half-2 weeks-ish purely because of the shipping time. The actual work was done quite quickly. I got the seat back right in time for new years and took it for a nice long ride yesterday. Previously, I'd be feeling it in my entire body and dying to get off the bike after about 2 hours on the stock seat. Yesterday, I did a 4 hour ride, followed by a half hour ride, then followed by another hour and a half- and I had zero pain the entire time. The seat felt fantastic. The true test will be once I'm doing 500+ mile days on my cross country trip in two months, but so far, it feels like a MASSIVE improvement. They did great work for a reasonable price. Would recommend Oh, and because everything is better with pictures- from my ride yesterday: The seat still looks the same as stock, so I didn't bother to take close up shots. But yeah. SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW |
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January 2nd, 2016, 03:44 PM | #10 |
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Have you looked at the Airhawk inflatable seat cushion? Most people that have them rave about them.
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January 2nd, 2016, 03:56 PM | #11 |
CVMA/AFM #72
Name: Tiffani
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I hadn't heard of them, so I didn't look into that before hand, but I also wanted to keep the stock seat height and width, so having the internals redone seemed like a better idea than just a seat cover for me, personally. All in all, I've got no complaints with what I ended up with. I'll keep that in mind if I end up in this position with another bike in the future, though!
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