Seat help

[rechilcot]

After a 800 round trip, by the end, I had terrible pain in my sitz bones. Before the trip, I had experienced the same pain while riding on 100 mile trips. As an effort, I have modified the stock pillow top seat by removing the soft foam and carving the harder foam to better fit. Also I used an airhawk pad on the trip. But both of these "solutions" have not helped.

 

Any other suggestions, would greatly be appreciated.

[fardnarger]

I had mine cut a little deeper and shaved on the sides, and replace the foam with aircraft memory foam, made 2 trips since then -1700 miles and the other 1500, never hurt again like I did before the mods

[Marcarl]

I cut out the foam right where my bones tend to rest and just left holes there. I'm ok now when solo, but with Marca on the back I still have problems. I'm still alive so I'll keep thinking on it.

Shaving the side a little has also crossed my mind as that is where sometimes I think the ache starts.

I have determined it's a lack of blood flow that causes this all to take place, so I also thought about raising my blood pressure to see if that would help. So I eat more ice cream and such now, which means I have to stop more often,,,, and so far so good. No higher blood pressure yet, but then I don't care for that really anyways, but the ice cream sure does seem to help.!

[OutlawRider]

I had the Butler seat mod done and had great result. Might have more saved of the sides.

 

[jfoster]

Right now I have the Butler Mod with a set of beads (bead rider's), pretty good combination....to me they work alot better than the air-hawk on a soft seat. You don't get that bunched up feeling under you plus the beads seem to make a soft seat feel alittle firmer where your not sinking into it or bottoming out. On a hard (firm) seat I felt like the bead rider's aren't comfortable.

[hillrider]

Where does one go to get aircraft memory foam?? That might do the trick.

[Condor]

This is one time I'm glad I have a lot 'natural' padding in the seat area..... No bony butts here!....

[Rick Butler]

Rich,

 

If you have not modified the foundation foam too much, I can most likely address your issues. The pillowtop is one of the better seats Yamaha has built but it has a few issues. To address sit bone issues, I have come up with a "Butt Bone Shock Absorber" which is a small oval layer of 1" medium density standard foam that will cover just the area of the sit bones. Then I replace the layer of pillow foam (soft foam) with a layer of 1 1/2" 4 lb memory foam. Between the two foams it will pretty much cover your sit bone pain.

 

If you have not seen my classified ad, it provides pretty much everything that I do to rework a seat:

 

http://www.venturerider.org/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=1023

 

Like I have said before, I'm pretty much an exclusive to VentureRider members and have reworked over 200 seats in the last 2 years. My solution doesn't work for everyone, but I do have alot of satisfied customers on this forum.

 

Let me know if I can help,

 

Rick

 

 

After a 800 round trip, by the end, I had terrible pain in my sitz bones. Before the trip, I had experienced the same pain while riding on 100 mile trips. As an effort, I have modified the stock pillow top seat by removing the soft foam and carving the harder foam to better fit. Also I used an airhawk pad on the trip. But both of these "solutions" have not helped.

 

Any other suggestions, would greatly be appreciated.

[jlh3rd]

and i am a satisfied customer of rick's......and his mod worked for my sit bones...

[waterbug]

Rick did my seat late last year or early this year and it is a lot better! My only thing is that I am 6'2" and long legs and would like a higher seat. I had her seat done also andshe loves it other Than the vent back seat is so much higher than the drivers and her head gets bounced around a lot with the air so the seat needs to be lower.