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lumberjim · 06-04-2015, 12:19 PM

My new seat came yesterday. Corbin makes them custom. you get to select the color of the seat, the sides, the piping, the studs: none, chrome or black, and they build it and ship it in about 30 days. The things I've read say it extends the time you can ride before your ass hurts from 1 hour to 3 or 4. I'd be ecstatic with 2. Took a short ride last night, but it was cold out... I love the look though... Was not SURE the red piping would look right, and that the color would match.... (I changed from bright red to oxblood at the last minute) But, it seems to match pretty well. I am pleased.

Undertoad · 06-04-2015, 12:50 PM

Looks great sir

xoxoxoBruce · 06-04-2015, 01:00 PM

The red matches fine because one is high gloss and the other matte. You made the right choice, it looks great.

lumberjim · 06-04-2015, 01:42 PM

Now I have to do something about those saddlebags.

fargon · 06-04-2015, 02:01 PM

Looks good.

Gravdigr · 06-04-2015, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

Now I have to do something about those saddlebags.

One word:

Semi rigid liner

Gives 'em a little form.

lumberjim · 06-04-2015, 05:26 PM

oh, not the shape I have coolers that fit right in there if I want em squared out.... It's the color. They are kind of green grey black.... now the seat is so pretty, the bags look like hell. I will have to see about getting some new black bags with the red piping or some other accent ....so it looks like it matches.

limey · 06-04-2015, 05:28 PM

Meanwhile, black boot polish, and LOTS of elbow grease will make a big difference!

Sent by thought transference

lumberjim · 06-04-2015, 06:38 PM

hmmmm..... I may just try that.... I have some somewhere.....

BigV · 06-06-2015, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim

oh, not the shape I have coolers that fit right in there if I want em squared out.... It's the color. They are kind of green grey black.... now the seat is so pretty, the bags look like hell. I will have to see about getting some new black bags with the red piping or some other accent ....so it looks like it matches.

Quote:

Originally Posted by limey

Meanwhile, black boot polish, and LOTS of elbow grease will make a big difference!

Sent by thought transference

Also leather dye, not just polish. Dye changes the color much more.

Griff · 06-06-2015, 10:08 AM

Looks bitchin. Use common sense on the polish/dye. Test the color. V should be the man on methods...

classicman · 06-07-2015, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim

Now I have to do something about those saddlebags.

I hear exercising can help with that.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-11-2015, 09:44 PM

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H.L. Mencken, the noted Baltimore author and journalist, witnessed nine hangings, including the 1926 execution of Richard Reese Whittemore, alias “The Candy Kid,” a gangster of some renown who killed a prison guard during an escape from the pen. “Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next,” Mencken later commented. “Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.”

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BigV · 06-12-2015, 10:41 AM

Wrong thread?

There's thread drift, and then there's thread alien abduction...

xoxoxoBruce · 06-12-2015, 11:32 AM

No, what I wanted to tell you is H.L. Mencken was in favor of capital punishment.

06-04-2015, 12:19 PM	#256
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	My new seat came yesterday. Corbin makes them custom. you get to select the color of the seat, the sides, the piping, the studs: none, chrome or black, and they build it and ship it in about 30 days. The things I've read say it extends the time you can ride before your ass hurts from 1 hour to 3 or 4. I'd be ecstatic with 2. Took a short ride last night, but it was cold out... I love the look though... Was not SURE the red piping would look right, and that the color would match.... (I changed from bright red to oxblood at the last minute) But, it seems to match pretty well. I am pleased. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-04-2015, 01:00 PM	#258
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The red matches fine because one is high gloss and the other matte. You made the right choice, it looks great. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-04-2015, 01:42 PM	#259
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Now I have to do something about those saddlebags. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-04-2015, 02:01 PM	#260
fargon Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: La Crosse, WI Posts: 8,924	Looks good. __________________ Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind.

06-04-2015, 05:26 PM	#262
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	oh, not the shape I have coolers that fit right in there if I want em squared out.... It's the color. They are kind of green grey black.... now the seat is so pretty, the bags look like hell. I will have to see about getting some new black bags with the red piping or some other accent ....so it looks like it matches. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-04-2015, 12:50 PM	#257
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Looks great sir

06-04-2015, 05:28 PM	#263
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Meanwhile, black boot polish, and LOTS of elbow grease will make a big difference! Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

06-04-2015, 06:38 PM	#264
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	hmmmm..... I may just try that.... I have some somewhere..... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-06-2015, 10:08 AM	#266
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Looks bitchin. Use common sense on the polish/dye. Test the color. V should be the man on methods... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

06-12-2015, 10:41 AM	#269
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Wrong thread? There's thread drift, and then there's thread alien abduction... __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-12-2015, 11:32 AM	#270
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, what I wanted to tell you is H.L. Mencken was in favor of capital punishment. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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