Mike Corbin needs to start making seats for Hondas other than the ones with two wheels.

 

just hopefully not priced by size

 

I LOVE my Corbin seat. Those things are amazing. I fully agree!

(Got mine custom shaped at the factory - it's only about a half-hour ride from here - there's a diner with a window to the factory floor, and barstools at the counter made out of cruiser seats.)

 

The last one I had them do was for a GL-1800 and set me back $1200... The one for my GS-1100 was a little less than 1/2 that much but it wasn't 2 tone leather with heat.

 

Yeah, mine was $500. No heat, though I did later install a set of heated handgrips. I've had the custom seat added (1.5-2" higher than stock,) added heated grips, and lowering blocks to give me another 1.5 inches between the seat and pegs. Overall, it's about a million times more comfortable than when it started. I may raise the bars a bit with a set of risers, but then my hands would block the mirrors, and I might need a higher windscreen, and who knows what other secondary and tertiary changes I'd have to make.

I wish the Fit's seat-foam were as firm as the Corbin foam. Honda uses some seriously spongy stuff... like the foam bed pillows at a Holiday Inn.

The heated handgrips are an amazing upgrade (I'm sure your Beemah came with some). I'd never realize just how frigid cold and unpleasant my clutch and brake lever are! No wonder the Beemer guys give a headnod instead of waving!

 

This is going to sound strange but it is the truth.... The only 2 wheelers I have owned that had seats I could stand was on a Helix and a Chinese made Vog 260cc scooter. oh yeah I forgot about my 2 recumbent bicycles and my 67 Royal Enfield 750cc Custom TT Interceptor. I bought my wife a minibike to mess around with and the seat on it isn't as mushy as the ones that came on the Goldwing or Fit.

 

I went on a 360 mile trip and my ass felt like it had been caned by a Singaporean jailer. And because it felt so low, my knees were suffering as well. The new seat made an unbelievable difference.

I would call it perfect, but a nice German fellow once let me sit on his R1200GS adventure during a MSF Experienced Rider Course. Sonofabitch!

 

The GS models are in my opinion the ultimate touring bike... Craig Vetter is developing a new fairing called the "Alcan" that he has put on a couple of GS 650s and his KLR600 Kawasaki and are sure to be made for the big GS... That a custom made to fit Corbin seat and big aluminum saddle bags and an around the world trip would be in order... My wife and I came home from Matamoros in August on the Goldwing in 2002 covering 470 miles in 100+ heat in 9 hours and the stock seat nearly killed me.... We both had Camel Backs and between the two of us consumed more water than the bike did fuel.. The Fit is more fun than the Goldwing and like the GS model BMWs doesn't fall over on you in loose sand..... You really need to get the new R1250GS if there is anyway you can swing it...... If someone was to come up with a supercharger kit using a Rotrex for those big mothers, I think I would sell everything I own to get one...

 

Since I like the long wool seat covers that I got for my wife's Forester I finally got around to ordering some off of ebay for my car... I'll get back to this thread with some feedback about them after they arrive and I have driven with them for awhile..... They look really funky but what the hell, I don't look all that great myself and I like things that are warm and fuzzy.

 

whenever i drive my wife's fit for over an hour, my back does start to hurt but i have gotten used to it...

 

Seats in my FIT are fine as far as they go. I have raised the front of the seat rails 3/8" to improve leg support. On a few 11hr runs on my recent East Coast trip I suffered no driving/sitting fatigue what-so-ever. Couldn't do that in my 96 Sedan Deville...