Are the Yamaha "comfort seat's" really that much more comfortable?

[Spook]

Welcome to the forum!
Based on the many, many comments over the years about upgrading the seat, the factory Yamaha seat is not the way to go.

Quite a few folks are happy with the seat modification offered by a company in Florida named Spencer's. It is generally not considered as good as a custom seat by Russell or one of the Meyer boys, but is a whole lot cheaper. See www.greatdaytoride.com

I'd suggest you spend a bit of time searching around the forum. A well used search function using Google is as follows ~ your search item site:fjrforum in the Google search window. By playing around with your search string, you will be amazed at the information you'll pull up!

Good luck with your search...

Don

I have had the Spencers mod for a few months now and would say it is well worth the small amount of money it costs. I can go well over twice the distance I used to before my butt starts to feel just a little uncomfortable. I would highly recommend it

 

[fjrjonesing]

Welcome to the forum.

I had Rick Mayer seats on my 03 and 05 and loved them. Found the stock seats to be absolutely unbearable, and the custom seats were well worth the investment.

But I took my first 1000 mile+ trip on my 08 last week, and I was delighted to find that the stock seat was actually quite comfortable. An aftermarket seat is now lower on my "gotta have" list.

Jim/fjrjonesing

 

[git-r-dan]

I've always been curious about the "comfort seat" from Yamaha to know whether it was worth the money spent.

But I took my first 1000 mile+ trip on my 08 last week, and I was delighted to find that the stock seat was actually quite comfortable.

Wait until the seat breaks in then breaks down in about 5 - 10k. I did 3 trips to FL and on each of the trips, the seat got more and more miserable. I'm on my third fitting with a Russell day-long. Great customer service, great seat. 1st seat: 1/3 of a day-long. 2nd fitting: day-long but not perfect. 3rd fitting to come: hopeful perfection (report to follow on new thread with pics).

git-r-dan :beach: