After not riding for over a year I was a little apprehensive about striking ount on a 2000+ mile trip to the Smokey Mountains with the stock saddle. My FJR has a Rick Mayer seat and the thought of a stock saddle had my butt cringing and questioning my wisdom over the thought of this trip. I made a slight variation the mod that has been posted on this forum but I did so with pop in and out parts that would make it easy to change back and forth if needed.
I struck out with MarkJenn since he was picking his bike up from my store and also with a friend on his GS. After riding the better part of a week I started home while Mark and Jim went on to West Virginia. I rode the final day 785 miles and could have easily gone another 200-300 miles. Here is how I did essentially the same mod, but with factory parts............
The seat cushions are easily popped out and I didn't want to glue different ones in place so I used the seat cushions from a 2003 Roadstar 1600 which is approximately half the height of the stock S10 cushion. The Yamaha part # is 22W-24741-00-00 and they should be bought for a couple of dollars or so each.
Since I ride with the seat in the high position I only needed to put these in the middle.
I then drilled a hole into the reciever that the "tongue" of the saddle goes into and placed another cushion from the Roadstar in this hole from the bottom up to take up the slack of the rear seat drop.
Another view........
This is easily removed and the stock cushions can be placed back in with no hot glue to deal with removing.
If you use the low position you would just change out the rear-most cushions to get the drop and make the seat essentially flat.
Tony
I struck out with MarkJenn since he was picking his bike up from my store and also with a friend on his GS. After riding the better part of a week I started home while Mark and Jim went on to West Virginia. I rode the final day 785 miles and could have easily gone another 200-300 miles. Here is how I did essentially the same mod, but with factory parts............
The seat cushions are easily popped out and I didn't want to glue different ones in place so I used the seat cushions from a 2003 Roadstar 1600 which is approximately half the height of the stock S10 cushion. The Yamaha part # is 22W-24741-00-00 and they should be bought for a couple of dollars or so each.
Since I ride with the seat in the high position I only needed to put these in the middle.
I then drilled a hole into the reciever that the "tongue" of the saddle goes into and placed another cushion from the Roadstar in this hole from the bottom up to take up the slack of the rear seat drop.
Another view........
This is easily removed and the stock cushions can be placed back in with no hot glue to deal with removing.
If you use the low position you would just change out the rear-most cushions to get the drop and make the seat essentially flat.
Tony