Got my Corbin saddle this past weekend for my 2006 AE.
As reported by others, it does NOT lower the seat height anymore than the factory low setting.
Also, when I ordered my seat I was very specific to request the exact same seat as on the website; that is not what I received.
Hopefully I'll have pix later. I'm just disappointed at Corbin and their representations: "oh, it will definitely be lower than the stock seat..."
Finally the workmanship does not seem very good, at least looking at the pictures on Corbin's website and what others have posted in this forum.
And for $1,000 I think I have the privilege to be upset about this.
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Sorry, just had to vent...
Uhm, you paid a grand for a saddle? Just the saddle? Hope that price incuded a back seat and back rest or a smuggler.
My Corbin looks great. I ordered it from the Florida branch. I got great service, got exactly what I ordered and in half the time they quoted. With the smuggler. Both very nice and very good quality.
My seat is a bit lower. Perhaps 1/2 inch when I put my feet down. I don't think my big ass is the problem, but my big thighs, otherwise I might even get my feet down more. I do agree though, if you think you are going to get 1 or 1.5 inches closer to the ground, you are VERY mistaken. I think that when you are sitting back in the pocket of the saddle, that you are sitting lower in the bike than with the stock seat, too. At least with my saddle I seem a lot lower into the bike based on the my postion and my view. Wonder if your pan was not trimmed short enough, or didn't sag enough when they moulded it to get it low as it should be.
And of course this thing is a saddle, not a seat. Built more like a horse saddle. So there isn't much cushion. But sitting back in the pocket is fairly comfortable for what it is. I think if your suspension is set up with aftermarket springs and shocks, and the setup is soft, this Corbin could be a very nice saddle. But the bike has to absorb a lot of the road trauma. With the stock setup, and if it's not setup perfectly, your ass is going to get pounded. This may not bother many riders, but my stock AE and Corbin did bother me.
I don't consider this a long distance saddle by any stretch of the imagination, but I found it tolerable, even on 600+ mile days. But it was somewhat painfull. Whereby guys riding a Russell don't even think about it, supposedly. Problem is, as I posted before, the Russell folks didn't think they could get the seat even close to as low as stock for us short people. For me, that just ain't good. I don't like balancing tiptoed at stoplights.
You guys that are having problems should say if you are having them with one store or the other. Wonder if the problems you are having are across the board, or just at the home office? Like I said, I dealt with the Florida branch and things went smooth as silk.
