Corbin needs a bike in Hollister, CA

Awesome company, can't say enough about the people that work there. They even gave me a tour of the factory while they were working on the seat; I'll post more pictures of that in a bit.

kuksul08 said:

I think it looks great. Let us know how it is.

Also do they give you the option to exclude the italian flag thing on the side?

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So as zippy49 pointed out, you can have the flag excluded. I had already ordered and sort of assumed I wasn't getting it since I didn't specify it, but that's not how it turned out. Not upset by any means. I think it looks fine.

That means obviously enough that I got my seat. Looks good, and my initial thoughts are that I'm going to be happy with it. The bad news is that it came the night before a long business trip so I won't get a real chance to try it out for a week and a half.

Can't wait to hear your feedback on the seat. I just got my HS and love it except for the stock seat. I'm hoping to hear some positive results so I can pull the trigger on my own replacement seat. The stock seat is simply terrible just like the majority of factory seats you get with pretty much any bike.

wheelieboy1 said:

Can't wait to hear your feedback on the seat. I just got my HS and love it except for the stock seat. I'm hoping to hear some positive results so I can pull the trigger on my own replacement seat. The stock seat is simply terrible just like the majority of factory seats you get with pretty much any bike.

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You must have a special butt - i never had the wish for an other seat on my former bikes (Yamaha RD350, XJ600, BMW R100GS, Aprilia Mana, MG Stelvio)
Even the Corbin really looks quite pretty.

wheelieboy1 said:

Can't wait to hear your feedback on the seat. I just got my HS and love it except for the stock seat. I'm hoping to hear some positive results so I can pull the trigger on my own replacement seat. The stock seat is simply terrible just like the majority of factory seats you get with pretty much any bike.

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I'll keep you all posted. I get back home next Friday evening, so hopefully I get a good ride in next weekend.

Corbin seat feedback

Any feedback on the Corbin seat compared to the stock seat? Do you sit back further at all? Is it less "grippy" so you can move around a bit on it? Is the foam firmer than stock so after 3 hours you aren't feeling the seat pan on your butt? I'm looking to pull the trigger since this is the only real option but I would love to hear some real world feedback. I also heard a couple of guys talk about using the SP seat, but I'm not sure I want to add any more height to the bike.

I'd like to know if it moves you away from the tank any...I don't find the stock uncomfortable, but would mind someting with a different slope that and deeper dish to let me sit back just a little. I looks as if it would accomplish, but before I plunked down any money I thought I would ask.

Wow, I forgot all about this thread! Sorry guys.

Here's my impression of the seat. As I had hoped, the flat area seems to be both wider as well as deeper front to back. Generally speaking, the shape change was exactly what I wanted as the stock seat tended to tilt forward too much leaving pressure on the pubic bone. Plus, the seat is very nice looking.

For the negatives, the main one is hard to describe. Think about the dished part of the seat that your butt backs up against. As the raised part curves around to define the dish, that raised area came too far forward around the sides of my butt before blending in to the sides of the seat. Where the forward parts of the 'c' shape made by the dish came underneath me, it felt exactly like I was sitting with something hard in each of my hip pockets. It drove me crazy, but of course Corbin has a very good policy of reshaping the seat I think in the first year.

I didn't want to play the back and forth game, and I had one other issue I doubt they'd fix, and that's that the seat is damn hard. I know they say it will break in, but I gave it over a thousand miles and figure it would maybe break in in the same time frame that granite erodes. So I took the cover off, relieved the contour that bothered me, and put in a gel insert, some memory foam and then a thin layer of regular foam to cover the transitions. I think this will work for me, but at this point, I might have been just as well off performing surgery on the stock seat.

Thanks Porkrind for the info on the seat. Good to hear your feedback on the curved part of the seat between the driver and the passenger. I am 6' and I tend to push against that area which you can do it with the stock seat since it is fairly soft. It sounds like that area on the Corbin is pretty firm. Stock seat modification may be in my future since it sounds like the $400 Corbin looks great, but won't work very well for me.

I've had Corbins on several bikes, and they have all been pretty hard. This did not keep me (and the wifey) from putting 65K on my Triumph with one, but the solo seat I got with our SV650 was awful. You have to try it to know how it will fit you, really. At least they offer a redo!

I bought one for my R6 back in 2000. Looked great and remember it being very comfortable with a well widened seat area but, the side bolters were way too wide and flat, making hanging weight off side-to-side almost impossible. Basically took the sport bike out of it. Picture an old tractor seat. Would have been fine if I took really long trips on it and could swap the seats out but, never rode more than 2 hours and was always a hooligan. Regretted it.