To me, there's two kinds of seats. Corbin and everything else. I say that because a Corbin has a hard feel to it from 1 mile to 1,000 whereas a all other seats have varying degrees of firmness, but basically have a cushy feel. I have a Corbin two up touring seat system for my 03 SERK "Elvis" . I bought the bike used and the Corbin came with it. I will be the first to admit, I never, ever would have spent $1,000 on this set-up based on sitting on Corbin seats and riding very short distances on them. Hell I hated this one for the first couple hundred miles. Now, I cannot picture doing a cross country trip on anything else. I keep an H-D Badlander seat on the bike when it's stripped down and while it looks good, it flat out sucks after 50 miles. The stock 03 SERK seat is good for one day or 500 miles. The 2nd day of a coast to coast run on it, it has worn out it's welcome. The Corbin is good for 50, 500 or 5,000 miles. Nothing else comes even remotely close. I don't know what else to say. I am in complete agreement with anyone who says " I sat on a Corbin and they are too hard " The only thing I can say is that that hard feeling morphs into a feeling that your butt is on something molded just for you and it never "squats" like soft cushy seats do. Call the Corbin folks and ask them if you buy one of their seats, ride it a couple of 500 mile days if they'll give you you rmoney back if you still think it's too hard and hate it. if I were them I'd agree to your request because in my book the odds are that after 1,000 miles you'd ask yourself. "why didn't I do this 10 years ago?"
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