Many popular aftermarket saddles combine changing the seat materials with widening the seating surface to reduce the weight per surface area.
Thanx, but a "seat pan" is what I'm actually trying to avoid...
Tested a Corbin, can't corner properly with that thing, I need the arch of the OEM seat enabling to "roll" the bike quick and effortless underneath my butt... :wink:
A seat pan forces your pelvis to lean
with the motorcycle, fine at speed in wide turns, but an anatomical challenge in narrow cornering as the lower vertebrates slow and limit the amount of movement; started to run wide in quick 90° turns into an alley or narrow exits with the Corbin... :-?
Besides this their often lower and especially wider, so the rim cuts into my thighs while stationary, especially when backing the bike up... (where I remain seated and simply walk backwards)
It might not be what you are looking for but I've heard good things about SaddleCraft Seating in South Shields UK.
Thanx, Bagster, Bespoke, etc... are known, but most change to a completely different seat shape so they can charge princely amounts for their unique new seat cover...
I'd prefer to keep the OEM apearance as good as possible (don't want to invite some nimrods to theft and/or vandalism...)
I used the gell pad and smoothing foam. I works great !!
Yep, exactly the vid I was watching a couple of hours ago :8):
Looks pretty straightforward to me, already looked up and bookmarked some suppliers, but as I wrote above will I have to get each item from a different vendor.
Over here they sell only the gel pad... no memory foam, nor smoothing foam included...
So how thick should I go with each?
I know from driving cars that too soft seats are a PITA as well, so some degree of firmness has to be kept.
And since I cannot locate an equivalent to the smoothing foam shown, could I use some 2mm, laminated neoprene instead?