Zzzzzzz*!huh,,,what? You say something Bounce? :huh:
If you don't think 8 hours in the saddle can be comfortable, you're missing something boys. 17 hours after getting on, I had no, zero, nada butt burn with the Russell. And after a 17 hour day, a 12 hour rally and another 17 hour day, I
still didn't have any butt burn. Mail order too. 10 days turn around with me checking first to see when they had a window of time to do the saddle. $365 for vinyl, rider only, no pillion seat work.
For the new guys, first off, the stock seat does break in some. It takes some time though. I rode my stock seat for 22k miles. It took 4k to break in and I felt it was noticably better after that time, but still only a 600 mile saddle for me before I got butt burn. FWIW, my prior bike, a Yamaha FZ-1 also took about 3500 miles to break in the stock seat and it was
much better after that.
Like Bounce said, you have to move around to keep the circulation going. We all do this to some degree, but it's learned behavior too. With the highway pegs and the Russell, I've found the sweet spot for my riding. All of the custom seats are way better than the stock, especially for the bigger guys.
I like Rich's and he's close to me, but after sitting on Mayer seats, Rich's seats, Corbin and the Russell, talking with and riding with others with custom seats, I decided on the Russell. I noticed that many of the LD and rally guys use the Russell, but I also noted some issues with the rider assisted custom seats. Personally, I don't know squat about seat making. Asking me what I like is next to useless, just make me a good seat.
When I spoke with the folks at Russell about returns/adjustments, they noted that they get more returns for adjustment by far from the 'ride in' customers and very few from the mail order ones.
Things that make you want to go Hmmmmmmmm.
Oh yeah, I'm 260 sans gear and I'm a friggin idiot for waiting so long to get the custom saddle! :lol:
