afternoon,
i'm new to the forum and i'm close to trading in my '02 speed 3, for a new '05 tiger. i love the motor so that's a no brainer, my concerns follow, comfort for a passenger and i'm thinking the top box would be very helpful at keeping the cookie happy. any imput re:passenger comfort would be greatly appreciated. oh yeah, how's the seat? front and back? triumph gel, corbin, sargent, any others, oh groovy ones?
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passenger comfort excellent according to mine
i've got the gell seat front and back and a alaskan leather sheep skin butt pad. i can click off ours without stopping exept for gas. no problem. any pillion complaints i just turn up the ipod. lol
Never hauled the wife with me, but I think your assessment is correct in that the rear seat with topbox and pad would be the ticket.
i want a top box and pad too. just don't want to pay $500. plus. used ones seem impossible to find.
I got the top bax w/pad specifically for my bride - and she doesn't like the ride. :roll: She was spoiled by the huge bench and foot pads on the back of my last bike (a 650 Burgman scooter) and whined after our first ride, "My butt's numb, and so are my feet. I don't have any room to move around." I'm thinking, after 31 years of wedded bliss :wink: she just doesn't want to sit that close anymore.
My wife and I have done some fairly long days on my new 05 Tiger with stock seats. She is very comfortable on back, but she is petite - 5' 6". I don't have a top case, just a Wolfman soft tail bag. She said that on the stock seat she can handle about 5hrs and then starts getting butt-numb and uncomfortable. We talked about the gel seats and the Alaskan Leather butt-pads. The Alaskan leather is definately cheaper way to go, but not sure if it would work on its own. For what the front and rear gel seats cost, you can buy a Corbin.
I got a deal on a used Corbin seat and its supposed to be delivered today. She is anxious to try it out and see if its that much more comfortable. Everyone I've talked to has said that the Corbin is the way to go and if the $$$ isn't an issue, then you can get the removeable backrest to go with it.
My GF loves the backpad on my topcase! It's a SHAD, and costs much less than the Givi . She also likes the Corbin seat over the stock one. She absolutely loves the outlet for the heated vest!! Usual gas stops every 200 miles or so are fine for her.
I've got the Triumph top box and pad as well as gel seats and they're fine for long hauls. I also fabricated a passenger foot peg lowering kit that takes the passenger pegs down about 2" and makes the passenger seating position much less frog like. No complaints from back there so far. . .
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Bike and misses. Only had it a few weeks (the bike). Normal seat, Triumph backbox with pad, Touratech panniers.
Now in Morocco with over 2000 miles added; misses says it's the best bike we've ever had.
And who would argue with the missus...... :D
My lady dove didn't mind the stock rear seat for comfort but on longer rides we wear our padded bike shorts under our ridding pants. She would however smash into me on hard braking. After putting a top box on she felt more secure and didn't feel like she needed to lean on me so much. But now none of this is a problem.... she's got her own bike. :D
Quote from: "georover1"My lady dove didn't mind the stock rear seat for comfort but on longer rides we wear our padded bike shorts under our ridding pants. :D
Thats funny - I thought I was the only one that did that.
QuoteThats funny - I thought I was the only one that did that.
Heck no. After years of putting on miles on a bicycle you learn all the comfort tricks. :wink:
I've got lots of cycling shorts laying around so I thought I'd give that a real-world test. I just got back from a 250 mile ride in Southern Indiana with a friend who was on a 650 Strom. Guess what? I'm real sore. Worse, I think, than with just briefs and jeans. (Tim was sore, too. I don't know what he was wearing 'neath though.)
Last week, my dealer put me on a 1050 Sprint ABS while my bike was in the shop. It had a gel seat. Although I didn't like the seating position at all (I'm old - I'll take the Tiger), the seat itself was quite nice. Wonder if wifey.... :wink:
Bought the '95 tiger for 2-up touring (at least thats what I told her :twisted: ) but there is a comfort problem. The missus demanded a back-rest of some sort, so I got the GIVI top-case, with a mounting plate that bolts to the existing luggage rack. Said rack is bolted to the sub-frame. Here lies the problem. Any vibration that passes through the frame is passed up to the top-case. These vibrations, or constant little bumps can't be felt from the seat, but with the top-case sitting on such a long arm (the rack sits way back on the bike) they are amplified. At first I thought the woman is complaining because she was spoiled from a recent '05 goldwing ride, but then I rode along at speed, with my left hand on the topcase, and it was kicking and bumping to the point of bruising your back. I don't have a GIVI "back-pad" for the case, but those that the dealer showed me, where made of some sort of hard plastic/rubber. So I don't think they would help at all.
Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, what can be done?
I tried to soften the shock to the point where the bike is floating like a cadillac down the road, but the road surface still shows up as vibration in the top-case....
What to do? :?
Hi folks, for what it's worth, I've just returned from a 400 odd mile run over the West of Scotland with my 04 Tiger. Until three weeks ago I previously owned an 01 Honda Varadero 996, I find the Tiger more comfortable to drive long distance than the Honda, I always think the Triumph seat's hard, but it doesn't seem to get any worse, unfortunately the wife said the pillion is not as good as the Varadero. Her feet are restricted in movement by the panniers and her bum and thighs get numb after a mere 30 miles? She went over 200 miles on the Honda with no complaints and 12 yrs and tens of thousands of miles of touring on Africa Twins she's no newcomer to pillion riding!
I'll persevere with the Tiger for a while though, I'm getting to enjoy the bike and with the race can fitted I believe it's the loveliest sounding bike I've ever owned. I'm off to Italy for the Stella Alpina in July so I'll do a write up of how we get on, should be a 2000 mile plus trip over ten days so I'll have a better opinion by then.
Quote from: "eviltwin"Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, what can be done?
I tried to soften the shock to the point where the bike is floating like a cadillac down the road, but the road surface still shows up as vibration in the top-case....
What to do? :?
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Versuchen mit ein reifon... oh sod it... you could try using a cut-up inner tube to rubber mount the whole thing wherever possible. Good luck.