SHAD comfort seats, any good?

[Chongwong]

Pretty much as per the title, i recently got an MT-09 and i'm loving it, a huge giggle to ride and the riding position is good enough that i can ride it for hours. The seat however, is st, like really really st, like really spicy curry st st.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-MT09-2013-2018-S...

I've not really heard much about these seats and there doesn't seem to be many online reviews, anyone got one? Whats your thoughts on it?

[Jazoli]

Yes they are brilliant, well the MT09 ones are anyway, I bought one for mine and it made the bike seat all day comfy, they really are night and day, plus you can easily sell it for £150 when you've had enough of the MT09, they didn't do one for my Z1000SX so I've just blown £350 on a Sargent, and its better than the standard one but nowhere near as comfy as the Shad was on my MT09

Edited by Jazoli on Saturday 11th May 20:29

[Chongwong]

Jazoli said:

Yes they are brilliant, well the MT09 ones are anyway, I bought one for mine and it made the bike seat all day comfy, they really are night and day, plus you can easily sell it for £150 when you've had enough of the MT09, they didn't do one for my Z1000SX so I've just blown £350 on a Sargent, and its better than the standard one but nowhere near as comfy as the Shad was on my MT09

Edited by Jazoli on Saturday 11th May 20:29

Cheers Mate!

[Billyray911]

I’ve just ordered one.If you buy direct from shad,WELCOME10 gives you a £10 discount.With free postage,it’s cheaper than other outlets.

[BowieMS]

I've got one for my NC750X - it's way better than stock, but it's not perfect (the stock one is really terrible). Can do a day's riding without too much pain. If you can get one for a reasonable price/on offer it's worth a punt, though I'd look at getting the original re-covered to my specs instead if I was doing it again. I think I looked at Viking Seats, they seemed reasonable?

The main thing I'd change is not to bother with getting a heated one - the switch design is dangerous (they recommend mounting in the middle of the bars, and to turn on/change setting you have to hold it down for about 3/4 seconds) and the two settings are "is this on?" and "just been paddled for an hour by a high class dominatrix", with nothing in between.

[Mr_Tickle]

I've got one on my Z1000 and can recommend. Have completed many long days on it with minimal discomfort. Also improved comfort for any pillion (apparently).