I was looking at Saddlemen Road Sofa and the Explorer seats... Anybody have experience with these? 6'1" 270 lbs on a 2007 Electra Glide.

 

I had a Saddlemen Explorer w/ driver backrest for a summer on a Metric. I just couldn't get used to it. I'm 6-1 230lbs and I kept wanting to skooch back. Felt like it moved me to far forward and it wasn't as comfortable as I thought it should be. Still had saddle soreness after a couple hundred miles Sold it and bought a Mustang. Never looked back from there. Much more comfortable in my opinion.

 

Had the Road Sofa on an 2002 Ultra. Damn fine seat. Was able to ride tank to tank all day and get up the next day and do it over again.

 

Bought the road sofa 4 or 5 years ago. This seat takes time to break in, I didn't like it in the beginning but once that seat had over 500 miles on it it got better and better. The seat did move me forward a bit and that took some getting used to. I only use it for longdistance rides when I plan on doing 500 or more miles a day.

 

a friend of mine has the road sofa on a road glide.its his second one as he also has one on his 84 fl.he swears by them trying to get me to get one

 

Reviving this to see if i can get more responses....

 

.... RoadSofa !
....... as others have already said, it moved me forward a bit from the stock seat. Perfect position for the stock bars ... though it makes me real thankful for the highway pegs.
......... it's served me well and when it wears out, i'll have Russell rebuild it.

 

I have a Road Sofa on my 2008 Road Glide and it was never comfortable for my girlfriend. We ended up at a local seat shop and they cut the top off and started over. It is much more comfortable now.

I personally will not buy one again. I spent $600 for the seat and $450 get it fixed so it would make our butts numb.

The seat is made of a really stiff black foam with a spot cut out on the middle for the gel pads. The lip between the black foam and the gel pads was the problem.