OEM seats

[mrfuni]

bobzinger
Thanks for sharing that with us. I ordered memory foam and have a gel pad. Thought I'd try to recontour my own seat before spending the big bucks for an after market seat. Memory foam is cheap and I have the gel pad so we'll see how it goes. Not a very big guy (215 lbs) so maybe it'll work for me.
joe

[mncruiser]

When I ride it's usually all day and I also do several overnighters each year.
I tried to re contour my original seat and added memory foam. I helped a lot, but not enough.

The folks at Mustang told me that it seemed that large riders complained about fit on the 1600 Nomads.
Corbin was much more $$ but they will pull the cover off and re contour the seat...I found out that they'll only do that to the extent that their stock seat cover will still fit.
So I checked out Russell's Day Long Saddles. The seat was about the same $$ as a Corbin. I chose to do the Ride-In service ($80 extra) and had custom seat made to fit me in 1-day. Because my wife and I are larger...I had to pay an additional $90 ($45 ea) for heavyweight suspension...yep they actually added upholstery springs in the foam. So the total OTD was $770. (Typical seat cost $560) I put on 1800 miles in the next 3 weekends on 3 trips. I can ride all day...Day after Day...and never get a sore butt.
The picture of the last Vulcan is my bike
http://www.day-long.com/new_pages/kawasaki.html

Do those "wings" on the seat keep your legs spread out at all? Or are they far enough back to only keep your rear supported. I put a solo Corbin on my Sabre and it has a wide nose that was hard to get used to.

[bobzinger]

The wings on the Russell are under your hips and supports you without putting pressure on your tail bone. I know $770 sounds like a lot. But after putting a couple $1000 in chrome on my Roadking the engine blew up (always wanted a Nomad anyway). I sold it as is and you just don't recoup much on chrome...so I decided to only put money into performance and comfort. The money I've saved on those non functioning doodads paid for the seat.