my girlfriend is tall 5' 8" and she complains the footpegs' position is not comfortable...plus the seat becomes painful for her after a 50 mile ride or so...my question is -aside from getting a shorter girlfriend - how have you made a dyna ride more comfortable for your passenger significant others? she does not want to buy her own bike and i'd like her to keep enjoying the ride with me...
**i have '08 streetbob w/ passenger seat and back rest...everthing was done at the dealership.

 

My wife hated the ride on the Superglide. I swapped the passenger footpegs for passenger floorboards. She still hated it and insisted that I get an Ultra so she could be comfy when we rode. I didn't mind adding an Ultra to the stable, so I picked one up and took her for a short ride (about 3 blocks). She didn't like that either. Since I enjoy taking long trips and also like a little female company, I dumped the wife and found a great lady that loves to ride her own, or ride on the back of either the Superglide or the Ultra. Never regretted the decision and never will. Not saying this is the answer for you, but it worked for me!

 

Get a touring style seat, and see if she can reach the mid pegs from the passenger seat, lol. If so, get forwards for yourself, and leave the mids on, for her.

 

I got a Mustang touring seat the wife likes it, been on 300-350 mile rides and she doesn't complain anymore.

 

I put the Sundowner seat on and my wife is happy.

 

My wife if 5' 11", and didn't care for the stock seat on the Fat Bob at all.
We went with the Harley touring seat, and she is comfortable now.
http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/g...bmLocale=en_US

Yeah, I know it does not look as good as the stock seat. But you can ride all day on this seat and still be able to walk at the end of the day.

 

Maybe she has long legs and pass pegs are to high to be comfortable. The stock seats are not designed for pass comfort. Go with the HD Sundowner (much wider then stock, dimensions are listed on the HD web site), Mustang or one of the other quality after market seat makers. Take her to the next bike night or rally and have her talk to other females near her size. Find out what they find comfortable before sending any money.

 

It's hard to compare since my wife is 5'0" but she didn't like the ride with the stock seat and footpegs and rigid sissy bar. She complained the vibrations were too easily passing through everything and giving her that numb itchy feeling you get when your circulation gets cutoff for a while. The position of the footpegs, however, was fine with her. So, I upgraded the pegs to some Kury's with the ISO rubber insets in them. Not standard ISO pegs, I think they are called retro pegs or something like that but they still have the ISO rubber in them. Then, as much as I hated it, I added a Tallboy seat which is basically a stretch (for the driver) version of the Sundowner touring seat. Hate the way it looks but it sure is cushy and we can both ride a long time on it with no complaints. I only mount it and the detachable sissy bar, though, when she is riding with me. Otherwise, I prefer my solo, especially for shorter runs. The only thing she still complains about is the vibration and the numb itchy feeling coming through the sissy bar pad on her back. But it seems to start after the first few minutes of riding and then goes away and she's fine.

Kuryakyn has stuff in their catalog for adjusting peg positions all kinds of ways. Maybe you should check out those options.

 

My wife is about 5'5" and complained about the stock set from day 1. I wasn't happy with it either.

Switched to Sundowner Deep Bucket, changed Med-low upright with small pad to Low upright with touring pad, and switched pegs to oversized Chrome and Rubber pegs.

Now all is well with the world.

Sammi

 

There was a company that made a seat that unfolded and installed over the pillion pad to give a wider, more comfortable seat.

Can't find the site, but it was something like butt buddy or something.