So, I'm looking to buy a seat, could can I get some advice on what is the best seat for high miles? What are the seats everyone uses on these iron butt rides?
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Wow impressive, sounds like a great trip and big miles! I will reach out to Sargent sounds like to stay away from Corbin for sure. So seat concepts and Sargent sounds like the two to look at thanks again for the comments.I got a Sargent. There based in Jacksonville, FL. Great customer service. I have a Corbin on another bike but their customer service is terrible and they nickel and dime you on every minor adjust, like thread color. I have four bikes right now so have seat experience. Rode the Sargent on a 90 day/18K mile trip to Yukon/Alaska. Didn't have a sore butt day once. Tired but not sore.
I'd go with the SGT
A $50 alternative to an expensive seat replacement - buy a pair of padded bike / cycling shorts to wear under your riding pants - yesterday’s 4-hour ride was very comfortable wearing padded shorts with the stock seat - could have gone all-day.So, I'm looking to buy a seat, could can I get some advice on what is the best seat for high miles? What are the seats everyone uses on these iron butt rides?
Thanks.
FWIW I tried bicycle shorts and did not like them. When off the bike walking around the pads feel like you have a load of sh!t in your pants flopping around and the pads really did not do much but make the reach to the ground further. Mine made it exactly one ride then was retired to the bin.A $50 alternative to an expensive seat replacement - buy a pair of padded bike / cycling shorts to wear under your riding pants - yesterday’s 4-hour ride was very comfortable wearing padded shorts with the stock seat - could have gone all-day.
Reality is that one shouldn't buy a seat for 400 miles or 4 hours. Truth is a good seat (often translates to expensive) is for the 400 mile per day, multi-day/week/month trips for greater comfort/safety. Don't plan the purchase for the short ride today, instead for the longer adventure to come.4 hours in a seat is a decent amount of time but . . .
How many Starbucks you going to go to in months long trip?Hopefully with these bikes we acquired them for longer trips of days or weeks or months.
My 2007 GSA stock seat foam was so soft it was painful after 30 minutes.Keep the stock.