{"id":56266,"date":"2020-10-13T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=56266"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:12:00","slug":"happiness-for-your-derriere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2020\/10\/happiness-for-your-derriere\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness for your Derriere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term comfort is more about ergonomics and not necessarily about seat construction and foam density.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a year ago \u2013 for the December issue of this fine tome, in fact \u2013 I had something of a revelation. After years of suffering through the numbest of butts on my various V-Stroms \u2013 and trying remedies varying from different seats to Moto-Skiveez padded riding shorts \u2013 I finally, accidentally actually, stumbled on the possibility that the true determinant of seat comfort was not seat shape or foam density but rather seating position.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had been testing various seats \u2013 Shad, Sargent, Seat Concepts and Luimoto \u2013 when I got sidelined by a project with fully adjustable (height and longitudinally) foot pegs and a set of similarly height- and reach-adjustable bar risers. What was astonishing \u2013 or maybe I\u2019m just dull \u2013 was that while, duh, my back ached less as bars and peg position suited me more, all the seats I had been considering as abject failures suddenly became palatable. Thus did I come to the conclusion that where you sit on your motorcycle is more important than what you are sitting on. Vexing oneself over whether a Corbin\u2019s foam is too firm or if a Russell Day Long\u2019s wings will offer tushie salvation is a waste of time if your hindquarters aren\u2019t in their happy place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wide Spectrum of Riders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56275\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seast-test-group-selfie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">But theory is mere conjecture until put into practice. So Motorcycle Mojo performed the first \u2013 as far as I know \u2013 comprehensive multi-rider, multi-bike seat test by collecting three fellow Stromtroopers all with (semi) identical bikes for a back-to-back test of four seats built for the same bike. Most important, all four riders were of different sizes. Mike W., a transcontinental rider, was 5\u20198\u201d and 180 pounds. At the other end of the spectrum, Mike T. was our heavyweight, standing 6\u20193\u201d and tipping the scales at 280. In between, Dan K. was 5\u201911\u201d, while I am 5\u201910\u201d \u2013 and seemingly shrinking \u2013 filling in the ranks of medium-sized riders. In other words, we had a fair representation, if not quite a full spectrum, of the people likely to ride a full-sized adventure bike. (Anyone shorter than Mike W.\u2019s 5\u20198\u201d is probably not riding an ADV bike or is on the lookout for a \u201clow\u201d seat, which is not part of this discussion.)<\/p>\n<p>The seats being tested \u2013 again, the Shad, Sargent, Seat Concepts and Luimoto \u2013 ran the gamut of both shape and firmness. The Sargent sported the densest foam, while the Seat Concepts was ordered with the company\u2019s softest formulation. In between was the Shad, with multiple densities of open-cell foam, not to mention some 3-D mesh added for further cushioning. Luimoto, a British Columbia company renowned for its (dare we say \u201cartistic\u201d?) seat covers, simply added a piece of \u201cGold\u201d gel into the stock seat\u2019s padding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seat Position is Important<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-56273\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6311-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">More important \u2013 at least, for the purposes of this particular seat test \u2013 was that the Sargent\u2019s sweet spot stretched out the rider the most, bum placed the farthest away from the handlebars. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Seat Concepts placed backsides closest to the handlebars, making for a short reach to the controls. In between, the Shad was closer to the Seat Concepts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term comfort is more about ergonomics and not necessarily about seat construction and foam density. Almost a year ago \u2013 for the December issue of this fine tome, in fact \u2013 I had something of a revelation. After years of suffering through the numbest of butts on my various V-Stroms \u2013 and trying remedies varying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1947,42],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Detailed Motorcycle Seat Comparisson | Motorcycle Mojo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you looking for a new seat for your motorcycle? 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