Corbin Seat Install

[hypo]

YES! Got the fedex notification today. Seat is due back in my hands on or before January 31st. by the timing of it, I'm guessing they had to rebuild the entire freakin thing.

[teemo]

While we're on the topic of seats.. does Corbin or another brand sell a seat that is narrower in the crotch area? If anyone has sat on late model CBR600RR they'd know what I'm talking about.

[hypo]

Correctly I might add.

here's side shots of the difference between the overlap on the sides. Bikes kinda dirty but I'll pull it out and take pictures in a bit.

[hypo]

first ride into work this morning on the Corbin seat. My butt started tingling about 20 minutes into the ride. its definitely HARD, and it definitely has a position it wants you to sit in. about the end of the ride, maybe 35 minutes in, I could definitely sense that the seat was molding to my butt, and the tingles were gone. Just like my Mustang seat on my cruiser, definitely feeling good about this.

I'm going to have to adjust the rear brackets as I've noticed a little give in the front tongue... the rear brackets are keyholed, so you can adjust them back and forth, but the keyhole has the narrow side going towards the front, which I think should be reversed, so you can wedge the seat further forward, and then tighten the bolts down instead of needing a washer to keep the nut from popping out of the big round keyhole. my 2 cents.

[Speedo007]

It does look good. Will be checking back to see what you think of it after a month...

[Camo]

Looks great Hypo. It looks like the corbin has a sharper angle at the back of the seat and a flat spot closer to the tank?
I find the stock seat lends itself to you sitting as close to the tank as possible, the corbin do the same or?

[calscrazy]

looks like there is a dip about midway compared to stock. i like corbin seats so i will be getting one of these.

[BeachinFZ8]

Hypo -

I think they still have your rear brackets installed upside down. When I put my Corbin on like yours and the rear sat up I could see a gap into the battery compartment from the rear. I turned the brackets over and now the seat covers the frame rails evenly from front to rear and lines up better with the tank top to bottom.

I don't have a photobucket account - can someone give me some instructions on the easiest way to get a photo up on this thing and I'll put up some version "b" shots.

BTW. My corbin is forming to me nicely. I have a 1,000 miles on it and it's much better than new. Still has some vibration to it that I need to work on. Been to busy to have a real go at fine tuning it.

[Scatt-Man]

Imageshack is good if you don't want to make an account.

I'm considering grabbing the set of Corbins, but all of these horror stories are really putting me off. I guess it'll all depend on how comfortable the stock seat will be when I finally buy the bike in July.

[BeachinFZ8]

Thanks Scatt-Man!

Here's the Corbin sitting on my dirty FZ8.

I do like the seat, no sliding towards the tank on hard braking and it does get more comfy as you break it in. BUT you have to sit in the "bowl" all the way back - your butt up against the rear seat. It's where you should be on the bike unless possibly your shorter than 5'9" maybe. I'm 6'0" and 200 lbs. and the position is perfect.

Downsides - not for high performance riding where you'll want to shift side to side. Don't spend lots of time forward on the seat or that center ridge will damage your package!


Shot at 2012-02-05


Shot at 2012-02-05