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[Joe Tittiger]

I have a Corbin seat that is about 2 years old - where the front seat seams, I postulate, have failed due to UV exposure. I am wondering what the real world policy of Corbin is. IMHO a $350 seat should not have a seam failure after only 2 years. Are they going to pull the ubiquitous warranty voider of requiring a sales receipt? Unlike http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/ that has a life time warranty and treated me very fairly? Good to be back and will post more about my product reviews after 2 years on the road. TIA Joe Tittiger please email response to: joe@... since this form does not allow a subscription to this thread.

[Kevin Powers]

Once they realize the seat failed because the sun shines out your ass they will be falling over themselves to correct it! ;^) Kevin

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Joe Tittiger wrote: > > I have a Corbin seat that is about 2 years old - where the front seat > seams, I postulate, have failed due to UV exposure. > > I am wondering what the real world policy of Corbin is. IMHO a $350 > seat should not have a seam failure after only 2 years. > > Are they going to pull the ubiquitous warranty voider of requiring a > sales receipt? > > Unlike http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/ that has a life time warranty > and treated me very fairly? > > Good to be back and will post more about my product reviews after 2 > years on the road. > > TIA > > Joe Tittiger > > please email response to: joe@... since this > form does not > allow a subscription to this thread. > > > -- Kevin Powers White Bear Lake, MN [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[jokerloco9@aol.com]

My flat Corbin is over two years old and still looks like new. I have the black carbon fiber looking one. But my bike is also always garaged, and only has 7k miles on it. Jeff A20 In a message dated 7/10/2008 7:54:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, PowersHouse@... writes: Once they realize the seat failed because the sun shines out your ass they will be falling over themselves to correct it! ;^) Kevin On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Joe Tittiger wrote:

> > I have a Corbin seat that is about 2 years old - where the front seat > seams, I postulate, have failed due to UV exposure. > > I am wondering what the real world policy of Corbin is. IMHO a $350 > seat should not have a seam failure after only 2 years. > > Are they going to pull the ubiquitous warranty voider of requiring a > sales receipt? > > Unlike _http://www.wolfmanlhttp://www._ (http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/)

that has a life time warranty

> and treated me very fairly? > > Good to be back and will post more about my product reviews after 2 > years on the road. > > TIA > > Joe Tittiger > > please email response to: _joe@..._ (mailto:joe@...)

since this

> form does not > allow a subscription to this thread. > > >

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[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Tittiger" wrote:

> > > I have a Corbin seat that is about 2 years old - where the front

seat

> seams, I postulate, have failed due to UV exposure. > > I am wondering what the real world policy of Corbin is. IMHO a $350 > seat should not have a seam failure after only 2 years. > > Are they going to pull the ubiquitous warranty voider of requiring

a

> sales receipt? > > Unlike http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/ that has a life time warranty > and treated me very fairly? > > Good to be back and will post more about my product reviews after 2 > years on the road. > > TIA > > Joe Tittiger > > please email response to: joe@... since this form does not > allow a subscription to this thread. >

Joe, I doubt that you have any warranty left...seeing as you crossed the state boundary into South Dakota AND stopped in Sturgis on your long journey. shug. Seriously, the people to ask is...Corbin. Then register you finding here. I would imagine they actually have you in their data bank as the original purchaser. Just for the sake of conversation: Is it really a "ubiquitous warranty void-er" for you to prove you actually purchased said item and that it is not 'stolen', etc? Which I am confident you did purchase.... revmaaatin.

[roncriswell@sbcglobal.net]

An interesting thing for all you short leggeds out there I discovered. My flat Corbin needs recovering so I put the old seat back on. My feet hit the ground easier (29 inseam) even though the stock seat is higher than a Corbin. Reason? It is narrower and softer. I around town and trails stock is better. A long trip doing 600 mile days, the Corbin would be better. I saw a short guy in Moab riding with the Corbin with the dip in front. Maybe that would be good for short. Criswell Sent from my iPhone

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@..." wrote:

> > An interesting thing for all you short leggeds out there I discovered. > My flat Corbin needs recovering so I put the old seat back on. My feet > hit the ground easier (29 inseam) even though the stock seat is higher > than a Corbin. Reason? It is narrower and softer. I around town and > trails stock is better. A long trip doing 600 mile days, the Corbin > would be better. I saw a short guy in Moab riding with the Corbin with > the dip in front. Maybe that would be good for short. > > Criswell > > Sent from my iPhone >

Ron, List- What I see in this tread is two issues: 1. stability: can you touch the ground 2. rider comfort: seat contact with the butt I am one that is blessed. I bought a flat Corbin, and then bought a 2dKLR equipped with a dipped Corbin. I still have both OEM seats, so I have the option of flat, dipped, OEM and a sheepsking that I can mix and match. None work well for me, for all occasions, as you just noted. The OEM is fine for me: for about 45 minutes then it runs out of support. If I am beating around between ranches, I leave it stock. As Ron observed, the OEM compress, etal, and is a good solution for overall conditions. almost. If I am riding gravel, 2dary roads for more than two hours, I go flat Corbin. If I am trail-ish oriented, I go dip Corbin. Last June, I took a 2-day, 1300 mile trip on secondary roads using the dip seat. After 300 miles I was in agony from not having any place to escape = locked in a dip. Being wet did not help either.... Tried it with the sheepskin, tried it without. When I had it covered with a sheepskin--it helped. I had a similar experience when I bought the bike, w/ dip seat installed--but was only riding about 3-400 miles a day for that trip. ie Dallas, TX through central AR, to central MO, Western IA, and finally home to central SD. Arriving home, I replaced that seat with a flat seat and then rode another 1500 miles over the next 4 days. On the 2008-GDR, I took the flat seat. Loved the flat seat while riding to the start point. After the actual N-S ride down the trail started, I was in agony (very challenged with a loaded bike and the marginal road conditions) with the flat Corbin. I was tip-toed & dangerous when the going got muddy. It was muddy more than we wanted. The flat Corbin did not work as well as the OEM or the dip-seat would have worked for these conditions as the flat is actually wider than OEM and decreases your leg length. During my 2004 GDR, I had a OEM seat, loaded bike and got along much better. most of the time.... What would seem ideal to me is if Corbin narrowed or tapered the flat seat by two inches in the first 6 inches of their flat seat. Now, all that said: a larger issue for seat comfort might be your 'underwear' matched to the seat. Many here in the past have subscribed to to wearing bicycle spandex type pants w chamois crotch under their riding gear. I haven ridden my mt. bike with these pants, and found they to be helpful. For some reason the last pair I bought shrunk.... I have some nearly seamless, athletic spandex type of underwear that I wear, it helps, but is not a complete solution. Many here like the OEM seat. They have just saved some money! Two of the folks that I ride with: Our friend Jeff Saline loves his OEM. Our friend Judd Jones loves his Corbin dip seat. Our friend revmaaatin is like the Princess-and-the-Pea story: I can't get 'comfortable' for all riding conditions with any of them. We all have a different physique, and also tolerance to pain. One thing for sure, if your saddle is not comfortable, you will not spend much time in the saddle. What would be nice, is if a buddy had a seat you could borrow and ride it for a weekend, couple hundred miles before you plopped down $350 for a seat that might not work for you. One last little hint: Alieve, ibuprophen helps for the strains sustained when we ride to fast, push to hard, (s)miles to many. revmaaatin.

[roncriswell@sbcglobal.net]

All that said rev I just wonder if I can narrow my Corbin before I get it recovered? It really doesn't work well for us short people where you need a foot down in trickey areas. I haven't really examined the seat to figure out how to narrow it. Criswell

On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:52 AM, revmaaatin wrote:   --- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@ ..." wrote: > > An interesting thing for all you short leggeds out there I discovered. > My flat Corbin needs recovering so I put the old seat back on. My feet > hit the ground easier (29 inseam) even though the stock seat is higher > than a Corbin. Reason? It is narrower and softer. I around town and > trails stock is better. A long trip doing 600 mile days, the Corbin > would be better. I saw a short guy in Moab riding with the Corbin with > the dip in front. Maybe that would be good for short. > > Criswell > > Sent from my iPhone > Ron, List- What I see in this tread is two issues: 1. stability: can you touch the ground 2. rider comfort: seat contact with the butt I am one that is blessed. I bought a flat Corbin, and then bought a 2dKLR equipped with a dipped Corbin. I still have both OEM seats, so I have the option of flat, dipped, OEM and a sheepsking that I can mix and match. None work well for me, for all occasions, as you just noted. The OEM is fine for me: for about 45 minutes then it runs out of support. If I am beating around between ranches, I leave it stock. As Ron observed, the OEM compress, etal, and is a good solution for overall conditions. almost. If I am riding gravel, 2dary roads for more than two hours, I go flat Corbin. If I am trail-ish oriented, I go dip Corbin. Last June, I took a 2-day, 1300 mile trip on secondary roads using the dip seat. After 300 miles I was in agony from not having any place to escape = locked in a dip. Being wet did not help either.... Tried it with the sheepskin, tried it without. When I had it covered with a sheepskin--it helped. I had a similar experience when I bought the bike, w/ dip seat installed--but was only riding about 3-400 miles a day for that trip. ie Dallas, TX through central AR, to central MO, Western IA, and finally home to central SD. Arriving home, I replaced that seat with a flat seat and then rode another 1500 miles over the next 4 days. On the 2008-GDR, I took the flat seat. Loved the flat seat while riding to the start point. After the actual N-S ride down the trail started, I was in agony (very challenged with a loaded bike and the marginal road conditions) with the flat Corbin. I was tip-toed & dangerous when the going got muddy. It was muddy more than we wanted. The flat Corbin did not work as well as the OEM or the dip-seat would have worked for these conditions as the flat is actually wider than OEM and decreases your leg length. During my 2004 GDR, I had a OEM seat, loaded bike and got along much better. most of the time.... What would seem ideal to me is if Corbin narrowed or tapered the flat seat by two inches in the first 6 inches of their flat seat. Now, all that said: a larger issue for seat comfort might be your 'underwear' matched to the seat. Many here in the past have subscribed to to wearing bicycle spandex type pants w chamois crotch under their riding gear. I haven ridden my mt. bike with these pants, and found they to be helpful. For some reason the last pair I bought shrunk.... I have some nearly seamless, athletic spandex type of underwear that I wear, it helps, but is not a complete solution. Many here like the OEM seat. They have just saved some money! Two of the folks that I ride with: Our friend Jeff Saline loves his OEM. Our friend Judd Jones loves his Corbin dip seat. Our friend revmaaatin is like the Princess-and- the-Pea story: I can't get 'comfortable' for all riding conditions with any of them. We all have a different physique, and also tolerance to pain. One thing for sure, if your saddle is not comfortable, you will not spend much time in the saddle. What would be nice, is if a buddy had a seat you could borrow and ride it for a weekend, couple hundred miles before you plopped down $350 for a seat that might not work for you. One last little hint: Alieve, ibuprophen helps for the strains sustained when we ride to fast, push to hard, (s)miles to many. revmaaatin.

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@..." wrote:

> > All that said rev I just wonder if I can narrow my Corbin before I get it recovered? It really doesn't work well for us short people where you need a foot down in trickey areas. I haven't really examined the seat to figure out how to narrow it. > > Criswell

Ron, If you could apply the birds-eye view of the first 6 inches (more or less)of the Corbin dip seat's profile to the flat seat, I think that profile applied to the flat seat would be very useful. You go first. smile. My seat is still in pretty good shape. Just curious, what did you do to a Corbin seat that it needs recovering? You did not beat on it, leave it out in the sun, take it to Mexico did you? revmaaatin.

[Jeff Khoury]

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----- Original Message ----- From: "revmaaatin" To: "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:23:26 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Corbin seats   --- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@..." wrote: > > All that said rev I just wonder if I can narrow my Corbin before I get it recovered? It really doesn't work well for us short people where you need a foot down in trickey areas. I haven't really examined the seat to figure out how to narrow it. > > Criswell Ron, If you could apply the birds-eye view of the first 6 inches (more or less)of the Corbin dip seat's profile to the flat seat, I think that profile applied to the flat seat would be very useful. You go first. smile. My seat is still in pretty good shape. Just curious, what did you do to a Corbin seat that it needs recovering? You did not beat on it, leave it out in the sun, take it to Mexico did you? revmaaatin.

[sopris_2000]

What you forgot to tell us, is you've gained 200 pounds since you took your stock seat off. No wonder your bike settles down more. See you in Moab this year. Rick

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@..." wrote: > > An interesting thing for all you short leggeds out there I discovered. > My flat Corbin needs recovering so I put the old seat back on. My feet > hit the ground easier (29 inseam) even though the stock seat is higher > than a Corbin. Reason? It is narrower and softer. I around town and > trails stock is better. A long trip doing 600 mile days, the Corbin > would be better. I saw a short guy in Moab riding with the Corbin with > the dip in front. Maybe that would be good for short. > > Criswell > > Sent from my iPhone >