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Our Bums Feel Great After Weeks of Testing the Best Motorcycle Seats, Saddles and Cushions Aftermarket seats for a motorcycle can literally be the difference between pleasure and pain. It doesn’t take long for us to get uncomfortable on a bike so we are avid aftermarket seat guys here at wBW. As always when we …

The Budget Adventure Tourer Flatter profile seat looks good and seems well made but doesn’t quite offer the comfort I expected. Read the posts in the various forums and you may end up believing that the original equipment DR650 seat is made from plywood and barbed wire. The general consensus seems to be that the …

I no longer own my 1994 BMW K75, but I had taken some photos of the conversion process from the low seat to the regular, or “high” seat. I apologize in advance for the rather poor quality of these photos; they were taken with a film camera and scanned in before I knew much about …

Review of Four GT1000 Seats After trying four different seats on the GT1000, I can say that the KonTour “Air Cooled” seat has transformed the GT1000. To me, it’s been well worth every dollar. I am a regular webBikeWorld visitor and the GT1000 bloghas been a great help to me as a GT1000 owner. I’ve purchased …

Butt Buffer For Your Butt The Butt Buffer is an effective cure for “numb butt”. It is easy to install and it can be used on different types of motorcycles. It is much cheaper than a new seat, and if you buy a new bike, you can take it with you. There’s a conspiracy, of …

Triumph has a nice selection of accessories for their line of motorcycles, and I was intrigued by the solo seat that’s available for the Thunderbird Sport. I’ve always been partial to the “cafe racer” look, and here was an opportunity to customize the bike with a factory designed and approved upgrade. I finally broke down and …

The Sargent “World Sport Performance” Seat The World Sport Performance seat is the original Sargent seat design. It’s been manufactured since 1996 in stock and custom versions. The price is reasonable, especially since you don’t have to trade in your old seat pan. That means you can sell the Sargent seat to recoup some of …

The Mustang “Wide Tripper” Seat The Mustang Wide Tripper is a nicely constructed aftermarket seat. It’s suitable for all-day touring, cruising the strip or just looking good parked outside the local pub. Two years ago I bought my motorcycle brand new, right off the showroom floor. But before I could ride it home, I had …

SHAD Seat for the Suzuki V-Strom 1000 ABS We reported on the SHAD seat for the new Suzuki V-Strom 1000 in February 2015 and the first available seat arrived from the factory in March and I’ve been riding with it ever since…weather permitting! While SHAD may be best known for their motorcycle luggage, they also make …

BumBags 4 Bikers Seat Cushion Based on the zafu cushions used for meditation sessions in Zen Buddhism, the “3um3ags43ikers” seat pad (annoyingly quirky spelling and all) is made from waterproof nylon and filled with organic buckwheat. Numb bum. The enemy. The spoiler of touring holidays and Iron Butt attempts; the distracter from glorious views, and the cause …

The King of Fleece to Prevent Wet Butt Syndrome (WBS) Most stock motorcycle seats are perfectly fine for shorter rides in sunny weather. But if you spend a fair amount of time in the saddle — and not just the “Iron Butt” types — then chances are you do a bit squirming around on that …

Triboseat Seat Cover Review The Triboseat seat cover gets its name from the science of tribology. Tribology, by the way, is not the study of tribbles! Tribology is defined as “a study that deals with the design, friction, wear, and lubrication of interacting surfaces in relative motion” according to Merriam Webster’s dictionary. I first heard …

As you may have discovered, the seat that felt fine on the motorcycle in the showroom isn’t quite so comfortable after several hours on the road. Long distance riders and hard-core commuters know that an uncomfortable saddle can make for an unpleasant trip, if not sheer misery. After having covered over 95,000 miles in 4 …