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Bought a Corbin seat, should be a better seat, right?

Compared w original seat:
I slide backwards, more weight on rear - spongy feeling.
Lower back more bent = back ache.
Very firm cellfoam, bones in rear end ache after 1 km (but doesn´t ache more after 50km... , positive ).
If I slide all the way back, I have to sit very upright - strange posture - backache.
Impossible to find same position on bike as OEM seat - bad weight distribution & to much on rear).
Summary seat position - more custom feel.

So,
what am I missing?

Gert,

Not sure how it could be so poor. My secondhand Corbin seat is a beauty (even if it is bright yellow - must do something about that) it certainly feels different to OEM seat, but provides significantly more support; particularly over longer distance.

Fraser.

I am wondering if you have a gunfighter, or a gunfighter+lady. I have a gunfighter, and an oem seat. I switch between them. The oem seat is a lot firmer, but I use the corbin for long rides. I even recently went on a 400 mile ride about six weeks ago. Is your seat brand new? Perhaps it will be more comfortable after its broken in a little. I certainly hope so.

You can sit back further in the seat with the Corbin, you don't have to sit on your Family Jewels & squash them each time you go over a bump like you do on eth original seat. Give it a little time to get used to the Corbin, it is a better shaped seat & will offer greater comfort than the original. Maybe you are the person the original seat was designed for & don't suffer these problems. I am 6 foot tall & find the Corbin a huge improvement because I can sit further back on the seat. My partner prefers teh new seat as well.

I have this Corbin on my Paso....



I really can't evaluate it compared to the stock seat as my stock seat has been shaved and I haven't logged any miles on it. I have put about 400 miles on the Corbin, but it's been on short jaunts of 50 miles or less and it has been fairly comfortable. I mainly have it on the bike because I like the way it looks with the red piping (that trim stripe around the back of each section of the seat).

The one I have (not my bike):

Tamburinifan wrote:The one I have (not my bike):

I bet that would look really nice if it had the passenger section in white to match that bike. The Paso would look like a monoposto that way.

Would probably look good, yes.

But it it gives you a bad riding position.

Does anybody want more weight on rear? Seriously?

Tamburinifan wrote:Does anybody want more weight on rear? Seriously?

Mine doesn't allow much movement at all. The seat texture is grainy and acts almost like an anti-slip material and the raise in the rear of the rider's position doesn't allow me to move back more than 2-3 inches. The hump in the front prevents me from getting right up on the tank, but the Paso is small and it there really isn't enough reach in the position of the bars for me to be up that extra inch or so..........there is a common siutaion where I do want weight in the rear.....it is when I'm on a downhill curve in the mountains. Unfortunately, I tend to still ride far too forward and load the forks too much.....which is why I sometimes have the front slide on me. It only slides on downhill curves, too.

I love my corbin saddle. I can do 800 mile days no problem on it.

Donaldoduck, nevermind the seat what about those pipes, nice interpretation! Did you do that yourself? Please tell me that is NOT a restrictor hanging out the back of the pipes though.
Nice 907

redpaso wrote:Donaldoduck, nevermind the seat what about those pipes, nice interpretation! Did you do that yourself? Please tell me that is NOT a restrictor hanging out the back of the pipes though.
Nice 907

Thanks Red, I am going to do a write up on the pipes when I get back from travelling next week. They are Spupertrapp pipes that I custom made. Restrictor plates? HA! No way I would cover up that wonderful Ducati Paso sound, but they are completely tunable by adding or removing disks... and leaving the plate out. You can listen to the bike run at the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1popG9t ... re=related