scrumpymike
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Sargent - happy with quality, fit and comfort.
What seat is installed on your NC700?
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Jelly
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Stock seat, but I have a 750 so didn't vote, I didn't want to mess up your poll.
The stock seat on the 750 is just fine for me, it has softened up quite a bit after 3000 miles.
However, having had a sheepskin on my Varadero, I wouldn't mind having one on the NC for that little bit of extra comfort, though not really needed.
The stock seat on the 750 is just fine for me, it has softened up quite a bit after 3000 miles.
However, having had a sheepskin on my Varadero, I wouldn't mind having one on the NC for that little bit of extra comfort, though not really needed.
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I completly agreed with everyone's assessment of the stock seat initially, but decided to give it some time..... and a gel pad. Really find the combination comfortable now. I do get envious seeing a Wing idle down the road, but am not ready to go to that style of bike yet. They do look comfortable....
peergum
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Seat Concepts now. The stock seat was okay for day to day and up to 2 hours ride, but for longer rides not so comfy. Much better with the Seat Concepts one (not a real seat, just cover and a new foam, shaped slightly differently, pillion just a new cover matching front one).
This said, the front cover was a real PITA to install, a bit short in my opinion, one inch more in the length would not have killed them... pillion cover went easy, comparatively.
This said, the front cover was a real PITA to install, a bit short in my opinion, one inch more in the length would not have killed them... pillion cover went easy, comparatively.
mansellj
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I am using the stock seat with a pad to keep me from sliding forward. I bought a seat on e-bay I plan to send to seat concepts to get recovered, I didn't want to screw-up my stock seat. I plan to give seat concepts a try and keep my stock seat on the side.
GregC
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+1. For the price Sargent was hard to beat for me. I've done 8hrs in the saddle without significant discomfort- my knees start aching before my butt.
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Sit & Fly seat cover (around $20) on stock seat with mod to raise the front of the seat. Big improvement, at least for someone who usually gets off at least once every couple hours. I wrote a review about it with photo as I recall.
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Sit&Fly / Sit & Fly Seat Cover review/details
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Short Time
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"Showkey" mod and a gel pad here. That took care of the forward slope as well as adding some height for better leg extension. Seems like a pretty good fix so far and cost me next to nothing.
Porko
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My Shad has been great. All day long comfort. Highway pegs a must for the long hauls IMHO. Ride safe.
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Shad, that's what I want. But just the pilot seat. I don't care about the pillion.
City Rider
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Stock seat. My bum was hurting for first 1500 miles; now that is broken in I’m fairly comfortable even on long rides.
Plake
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Had the Shad on for a week. Big improvement in arse comfort. Got the sticking down pillion seat thing though.
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The stock pillion seat on mine sticks too. But so far all it requires when releasing it for a fill-up is to place a firm hand's pressure down on it before/during turning the key. I'm guessing there is a way to adjust the mechanism but so far have not seen a need.
jayceegee
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I really like my Corbin seat. I like the firmness to the seat and also the way the weight on your butt is distributed to all areas of the seat. The OEM seat was a PITA - literally. All my weight on the OEM seat was concentrated in an area of my body that I did not want it to be and the forward slope was crushing my &^%$ into the gas tank. Sorry for the mental pictures I just put in your mind.
frog13
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Search function isn't my friend lately. Could someone give the post / thread of the " slope mod" please. I'm tired , to say the least, of cracking the "boys" on the initial frunk plastic. TIA!! .
Short Time
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I did the "showkey seat mod". Try that in the search field. Should pull up what you need. There are a few versions but the basics are the same.
AsureDawn
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frog13
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Thank you Short Time
Ackme
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I did the Showkey mod and an Alaska Leathers seat pad for the first two years i had the bike. Much like Peergum's experience it okay for a day ride. I went the Seat Concepts route prior to a long ride this summer and was fine for 12 days and 4000 miles.
Dennis M
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After getting my NC I knew right away that I was going to have to do something about the seat, since I already had and airhawk pad I put it on, it helped some but still had the sliding forward problem. I then did the Showkey mod which solved that problem but I still wasn't all that comfortable even with the Airhawk. The Airhawk was a big improvement to the Guzzi but didn't really seem to help that much on the NC.
So when the Sargent seat became available I ordered one, I tried it with and without the Showkey mod, ended up going without as the seat seemed to solve the sliding forward problem, at least for me it did, and with and without the airhawk, again the airhawk didn't help that much so it went back to being a permanent fixture on the Guzzi.
While the Sargent was better that the stock seat I still couldn't go much more than a couple of hours before my butt was hurting and since I'm retired almost all my riding is longer rides, several hours to all day long. So last year I decided that's what I needed a Day Long seat. So for my Christmas present to myself last Dec. I filled out the order form e-mailed it to Russell seats, they sent be back a production date in late Jan. Boxed up my stock seat & got it shipped out there mid Jan. had my new Russell Day Long seat by the second week of Feb. WOW what a difference, it certainly deserves the name Day Long.
However it still isn't perfect, I had lowered foot-pegs on my NC but I could no longer reach them, the seat is so wide at the front it holds the upper part of my legs more straight out so my lower legs were kind of dangling , so I put the stck pegs back on and now I can reach them although I think I could put on raised pegs and still be even more comfortable. Also because of the width of the front of the seat I have to slide forward every time I come to a stop just to be able to tip-toe it. It also makes getting on & off even more difficult than it already was what with my bad knees and the fact that after breaking my right femur and having a pin put in it many years ago I never regained full range of motion with my right hip that's only gotten worse as the years went by.
Dennis
So when the Sargent seat became available I ordered one, I tried it with and without the Showkey mod, ended up going without as the seat seemed to solve the sliding forward problem, at least for me it did, and with and without the airhawk, again the airhawk didn't help that much so it went back to being a permanent fixture on the Guzzi.
While the Sargent was better that the stock seat I still couldn't go much more than a couple of hours before my butt was hurting and since I'm retired almost all my riding is longer rides, several hours to all day long. So last year I decided that's what I needed a Day Long seat. So for my Christmas present to myself last Dec. I filled out the order form e-mailed it to Russell seats, they sent be back a production date in late Jan. Boxed up my stock seat & got it shipped out there mid Jan. had my new Russell Day Long seat by the second week of Feb. WOW what a difference, it certainly deserves the name Day Long.
However it still isn't perfect, I had lowered foot-pegs on my NC but I could no longer reach them, the seat is so wide at the front it holds the upper part of my legs more straight out so my lower legs were kind of dangling , so I put the stck pegs back on and now I can reach them although I think I could put on raised pegs and still be even more comfortable. Also because of the width of the front of the seat I have to slide forward every time I come to a stop just to be able to tip-toe it. It also makes getting on & off even more difficult than it already was what with my bad knees and the fact that after breaking my right femur and having a pin put in it many years ago I never regained full range of motion with my right hip that's only gotten worse as the years went by.
Dennis
