Value of Seat Modification

[the Ferret]

I rode my 2014 DLX with stock seat straight back from the Arkansas rally 697.7 miles in 12 hours. Empty Sea rode right beside me before we split off somewhere in Ill on his 2013 with stock seat. He did 625 miles in 11 hrs and 47 mins but did stop for 1/2 hour to eat someplace.

Some of us are pretty immune to Oem Japanese seats lol... in fact in estimated 800,000 miles on 32 motorcycles I have never had a custom seat. I did have the seat cut down on my ST 1300 so I could reach the ground better, and did 5500 miles in 11 days on it riding to Cali and back, (approx 10 hours per day in the saddle) but in general stock seats don't bother me.