Hey Eveybody,
I'm having Rick Mayer Cycles build me a custom seat. I could go for about 3hrs before the backside started complaining. I purchased an airhawk and it adds about an hour before the discomfort sets in.
I found Rick's prices more than competitve and unlike Sargent or Corbin, it is built for your butt alone. If it doesn't fit after an initial break in period, you ship it to him and he'll attempt to make it more comfortable. I know I sound a bit like a commercial, "butt" I'm really excited to feel some comfort from my seat for once. I'm 5'10" and 185lbs (yes a little out of shape) but I never found the stock good for a ride longer than a few hours.
Max07
You can check out my progress with a seat in the thread "best seat for female rider". I had Mr Ed's Moto in Albany Oregon (close to my home) build me a seat last wednesday and I just got in from doing 311 miles today. NO seat is 100% comfortable but mine sure is better.
Best of luck with your new seat. I have heard good things about Mayer seats.
Carol
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Just to point out one fact on seats - not everything having to do with comfort is related to weight or size.
For example, back in the day when I met my wife, I had an R90/6 with a stock seat. She could ride it all day long. When I got a new '83 RS, she couldn't stand the stock seat more than an hour without agony. That lead me to a Corbin, which was about the only option in those days other than a Russell. She weighed 95 pounds at the time! (Two kids and 20 years laters she has balloned to 105 )
Sometimes it is more about shape and pressure points than weight.
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I rode for 3 hours after work tonight, to take a friend to collect his new F650GS. My backside is killing me despite hopping from cheek to cheek, pillion sitting,standing up etc. Before I lash out on some sort of gel or air pad I wondered if these seats break in some more? Mine is wide but hard and as the bike only has 6K miles on it I was hoping it would bed in a little. Maybe the previous owner was built like a racing sardine and never stressed it out but my 13 stone is finding it a little too rigid for comfort at the moment!
chris wrote:I rode for 3 hours after work tonight, to take a friend to collect his new F650GS. My backside is killing me despite hopping from cheek to cheek, pillion sitting,standing up etc. Before I lash out on some sort of gel or air pad I wondered if these seats break in some more? Mine is wide but hard and as the bike only has 6K miles on it I was hoping it would bed in a little. Maybe the previous owner was built like a racing sardine and never stressed it out but my 13 stone is finding it a little too rigid for comfort at the moment!
One word: Sargent.
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chris wrote:I rode for 3 hours after work tonight, to take a friend to collect his new F650GS. My backside is killing me despite hopping from cheek to cheek, pillion sitting,standing up etc. Before I lash out on some sort of gel or air pad I wondered if these seats break in some more? Mine is wide but hard and as the bike only has 6K miles on it I was hoping it would bed in a little. Maybe the previous owner was built like a racing sardine and never stressed it out but my 13 stone is finding it a little too rigid for comfort at the moment!
One word: Sargent.
Amen to that. I put up with the stock seat for about 26,000 miles and though I weigh about a buck-eighty, all geared up, it never seemed to "break in" to any extent that I could tell. I tried an Alaska Sheepskin Buttpad, but that mostly brought temperature relief in the Phoenix sun, and not much in the way of pressure point relief. With the sheepskin on the stock saddle, I would barely last a tankful. Maybe I just have a weird butt or something.
Now, with the new-to-me Sargent, things feel a bit different. I'm far more comfortable on the bare Sargent than on the stock saddle plus sheepskin. The Sargent is dished, whereas the stocker is crowned, and there's more room to move back and forth, plus additional height. My knees are certainly thankful for that extra saddle height, so I've really swatted two or more flies with this half-priced stone. While things are quite peachy in the nether regions with the current arrangement, I imagine I'd reach Butt Nirvana with an AirHawk on top of everything else.
Before buying a new Sargent Seat at £389, why not buy my used for 1000 mile example for £250 (front and rear).
Best aftermarket part for the bike IMO. Someone else on this site described the difference between Sargent and Standard as the fact that you don't think about the seat at all once you swap over, that about sums it up!
I owned an 2003 R850R with a standaard seat and a Rockster with the high
seat. Rockster seat was better but your bum still hurts after a while.
The stock seat was very painful after a few hours.
The tall seat was even worse.
I stoped by rick mayers on a trip through Cal and we discused shape and height. I got the custom seat, and now life is good.
(Two kids and 20 years laters she has balloned to 105 
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