Sargent Cycle Products modified Stock Seat

So far I am so confused with my attempt to get my seat covered I am thinking of going to Corbin. I sent them a pic of a Corbin seat and told them I wanted to have it look like this. NO GO Had a pic on their own website of a VFR 800 and asked them to look at that NO GO.

They want (as Mike Myers charater on SNL) drawwins, I have to sketch what I want or they wont do it. I am LOUSY at drawing anything and I figured a picture is worth a thousand words but not in this case. I have never seen or sat on any other seat then my own but no the Corbin seat looks comfortable and based my decisions on users here in the forum on what feels good on the touche (butt). I have to also figure the shape of the foam and other aspects of the seat which are shown in any pic of a corbin or even their own seats but they wont use them. I am not the professional so I dont have a friggen clue of what works best or not. You would figure with all the seats they do build they have the history to take a picture and convert it into a custom seat.

HELP a guy out here!!!!!

 

By the way be carefull if you want to buy a seat off ebay or anywhere as they wont use it unless you have tried it on your bike. They have been burned by seats that were deformed and broken.

On the same vein of ebay carefull of buying a corbin or sargent seat if it needs recovering. Corbin want $199 to cover their own seats and Sargent would be just as high.

 

GM Product Banchee:

don't be too pissed at Sarg. They are likely trying to ensure they don't illegally copy the othr company's design.

Perhaps if you got some tracing paper you could trace the picture you liked?

 

I dont imagine that a design can be copywritten like that because they have others similar that they build all ready. I tried every angle for them to look at a picture and it was a NO. THe real thing that got me was the VFR 800 they have in thier own customer gallery. It is exactly what I want and they cant use it as a starting point. I would think there would be more liabilty in building a seat from a sketch becuase the company is expecting you to be artistic and MANY of us are not.

What really is odd is I am not the pro, I dont know if 1 1/2 of thier superfoam is enough. What is the difference from a picture to a scetch. A picture of a seat show exactly what I want and then all they have to decide on is foam density and thickness. If I say I want 4" of foam under my arse they can say "the maximum foam based on that design would be 2 3/4".

It kind of like a cam grinder not asking you waht kind of performance you want but what degree of angle you want on the lobes and what maximum amount of lift do you want on the exhaust and the intake. It is their job to transform my thoughts of wanting lots of low end power for street use and converting taht into the product.

The truth is my sketching skills are the bad. Going to try someone in the family.