The Best Motorcycle Seat Comfort Mod!
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
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The seat on the M Sport model of the 2019/2020+ BMW S1000RR is ROCK HARD. That's expected, it's a race seat. But for a bike that's made to tear up the track AND the streets, it's a bit much. Fortunately, Luimoto sells a gel insert kit that you can modify your seat with to get some extra saucy comfort (beyond their dope seat covers). So along with one of their new seat covers, they sent me their Gold Gel kit and I got to work. Can Luimoto Make Race Bikes Comfortable again? Let's see!
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Please do the exhaust next, the anticipation is killing me
Omg same
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Thanks so much you really help me out :D
riding a bike with stock exhaust is something but riding a bike with stock exhaust while you have an aftermarket one is some next level shit 🤷♂️
The christmas wrap on the CRF is almost back in season again 😂🤣😂
Mil Moto glad I’m not the only one thinking that lol
Ugh do the exhaust already🙄😂
I had seen your recent TST integrated taillight assembly and noticed the nice rider and passenger seats. Then found this video thinking it would be a quick change. Boy was I wrong! Talk about not quick and insane tedious with having to buy specialized tools. High quality materials but def glad I watched this video as it convinced me to avoid messing with my seats. I love all your videos. They are super detailed and unbiased and objective. 💪🏽
Whew! I'm exhausted from just watching you figure out the process! Thanks for making this tutorial and showing us the right techniques and equipment we need to accomplish changing out the seat covers. Ride safe and comfortable! 😎
I have a 2018 R6. I’ll be doing this to my seat as well.
Get your mom’s old electric carving knife that she used to cut the Thanksgiving turkey They are excellent for contouring seat foam.. you could shave foam using an electric carving knife in layers as thick as a quarter…Excellent video
What a nightmare!!! It turned out sooo good though. I've got my 2014 R1 cuz of you and the luimoto seat I have on it is amazing. AND you've got your logo on it! Hope I get to see it person someday. Much love moto
I also made this mod to my seat with the gold gel and seat cover .. such a big change in comford! .. If I would to get a new bike I would do this mod first before anything else! .. your a$$ will thank you :)
I sent my 2017 R6 seat out to Luimoto to have this done. I didn't trust myself. The gel and new seat cover made a huge improvement over the stock seat for long distance/long duration riding and it looks awesome!!! I'll have the same thing done to my 2020 S1000RR once I take delivery next year.
That's great to hear, man! I forgot that they offer doing installs as well.
Oh man the seat is looking dope...the gel seat part was most tricky. This is real hardwork. You nailed it ❤️
Awesome job bro it looks like a pro did it
Thanks a lot for that man
Awesome improvement but I would be so nervous doing it. It’s such a nice bike. I would hate to not do a good job and mess it up. You’re braver than me.
i know its minor but it really bothers me that they messed up the blue and red on the seat cover, the red is supposed to be beneath the blue based on your bike
My thought exactly, looks Nice, but the mix up in the colors kills the cover...
I get what you mean man, but they are staying true to the m sport stripe design where it is blue first and then red. Also it matches the lower fairing and front fairing and gas tank angles at least. If you are really concerned you could get their other model.. I think its called the technik. That one flows with the side panels.
Dude your DIY skills are incredible. 🙌🏻 Been watching for a long time and this was insane too. 👍🏻
Wow you good job
seat looks excellent!
I like this a lot. I like the look of the Race cover so I might do that to my ZX-6R. My ninja 300 would probably get the same treatment. The stock seat hurts after 30 mins of riding.
Can't wait for the exhaust
labor of love.....I would've sent that to the upholstery shop. F that
The seat covers are super neat.
Man, I admire the hell out of your determination and ingenuity. But I would never do this in a million years.
While the track-focused M Sport seat is really hard, my ass isn't what typically gets super sore first. It's usually the knees and then the back, core/adductors, etc. depending upon what type of riding I do. BTW, the best solution I've found to making body position less physically taxing is stickum spray for the knees to better grip the tank with far less squeeze. The best spray is made for English-style horse riding where the rider also grips the saddle with the knees.
Then, if I wanted a softer seat - might be a nice option - I would get an additional one to swap with my standard M seat, but still have the M seat for track days and super hard sport riding where I want to sit down/in the bike. BMW itself has a high-seat variation of their M seat that gets its height via additional padding. It would also help on the knees by slightly reducing the knee-bend angle. This wouldn't cost more than what would be spent with your approach, but with infinitely less time/effort and you would have the original seat too, which has its uses. I also expect more third-party alternatives to emerge as more new-generation RRs are sold.
YO B! Amazing. Best custom seat yet. All that hard work sure payed off, brotha. Enjoy.
Preciate it man!
Now that seat looks like it will definitely do the job now
I'm gonna do this to my BMX! but I'm not gonna buy the expensive gel insert for it though.
A great addition to hard seat and many hours on it, Are top quality cycle shorts. Really helped me out on two to three hour rides. 👍🇬🇧
Where is the exhaust....?
Why not keep the M seat for track use and buy a comfy seat like a Corbin, Sargeant, Wunderlich, etc.?
That's a great job. Love the way you are enjoying your new BMW. Might do that mod when I get my own RR - hopefully sometime in 2020. Do they ship to Ireland.
I'm pretty sure they ship worldwide!
Looks brilliant and as always a top job on instalation
If you meant to line up the staples with the music, props to you and I noticed. If not, it is an amazing coincidence 😂
Oh it's always intentional :)
Great work and effort, I love diy stuff buy I ain't doing this much work for sure, not if I already spend 150- 200$ on just covers! I'll stick to Lego! 😂
please do a stroller build!!!
Good Lord what a pain with all those staple guns. The amount of trouble and multiple guns I think I'll just buy prebuilt seat. 😂
When are you slapping that exhaust on?, I don't even care about work or studies rn 😂, waiting patiently for that Austinracing!
Next video!
You have magic in your hands..it's not everyone's cup of tea to do such critical DIYs. Peace.
That's awesome! I need that for my R3!
I spent hundreds on an aftermarket seat for my r1 and this end product is 1000% better. Mine is big and bulky and heavy af.
The color scheme of the seat doesnt match exactly. The blue needs to be on top. But i still love the seat looks great, great work and effort man 👍🏿
Seat looks amazing.
Thanks man!
Wow, lots of effort, but it totally worked out in the end. It looks fantastic! Let us know how the gel is on the road!!
Use tapping screws instead of staples, works great
enjoyed the video!
I have the S1000R and the seat is OK. Wouldn't say it's plush, but do-able. The stock seat on the RR must be a lot harder? I've thought about replacing with a Sargent but I really like the looks of this Luimoto seat. You did a great job AND you are very patient with all the back seat critics out there. 👊🏽 😉 Good for you B. Keep it up, your Vids are the best.
Def getting !!!! Looks awesome !!!
Hope it works out for you. Never had any luck with gel 👎but everyone's different.
This is a great staple gun review video
How dose it do sitting in the rain? Do they really need covers when parked? Thanks
Got them on my blade both front and rear saddle
looks very good! nice job! what size staples did you use?
You did a freaking great job! I modified my seat once years ago... it turned out very very very bad haha.
Eagerly waiting for your exhaust system installation video please do it ASAP 🤩🤩🤩
Would this work on a 2010?
2010 seat was different
Just curious - why get the rear seat when I couldn’t see any rear foot pegs? Why not get the rear seat cowl and sharpen up the look at the back? Maybe I missed the rear pegs 😊 Either way, amazed at your patience!
Hey Motonosity, How did the road test go? How much more comfortable is it?
This seemed extremely complicated. Not sure if I want to venture in and mess my seat up. Yours looked good tho.
The amount of setbacks in this video gives me so much anxiety. I panic when I can't find the right screw let alone all this!
You have the patience of a saint.
Patience*
Great vid. Good work. Looked like a pain but looks great and alot for me to learn from. Thanks bro.
No way I do this! The cost of it, AND YOU HAVE TO DO ALL THE WORK? 😂😂😂 no thanks
I mean you could easily take it to an upholstery shop and have them do it for you lol
You can also sent the whole seat to Luimoto and they will install it for you and send it back.
@@motonosity how much do you think an upholstery shop would charge for something like that?
@@justindilworth8385 $60 to install the seat cover and another $60 to install the gel
Wow, what a coincidence, my Luimoto M Sport seat just arrived an hour ago. I live in Japan so I want to make sure I wasn't shipped the standard seat similar to you. I really don't want to rip my seat apart only to find I have the wrong design as well. Can you advise on dates of when you received the original cover? Hopefully they've sorted this out in the meantime. I ordered about five days ago.
thanks
You're good :) I'm pretty sure no one was sent the wrong cover since I received mine to test before they started shipping out orders. You would've been contacted if they had, though.
Are you 6feet+ because I am also planning to buy this bike and I want to know that does it looks good on tall riders.
Can you change the slope/aggressiveness of the seat with this method?
Yes, the foam can be shaved to be shorter or taller or narrower or whatever the shape of your azz
You look like " The Punisher " after the haircut
Looks good
Regarding air pressure and staples going through the seat cover. Could you get a thin, narrow piece of metal or plastic and put under the middle of the staple so it stops flat side before shooting through the material? you can finish driving the staple in afterward if you want, or if the metal is thin enough it might not matter
I have the lui gold seat inserts would not recommend i never really had an issue with comfort until i started using them. Feels like your sitting on a harder surface after a couple hrs.
the Luimoto gold is the best gel in the industry for motorcycle seats, but it is not soft and comfy, it is meant for you to be able to ride long distances without cramps, soreness, and pain
This is awesome thanks!!
Long term review? How much more comfortable is the seat now? How long can you ride it with no pain?
Before I put in the gel my hips and legs were in pain about 30 minutes into a ride. After I installed the gel I have never been in pain again with my longest ride about 3 hours.
Or you could punch a nail as far as you need and then bend it down...
That's how they to in shoe making when pulling the leather upper
14:45 the sounddssssss
Brent.. will you be hosting a meetup this year? :(
I wonder if an oscillating tool would make quick work of the cutout after scoring the outline?
yah, just makes a mess though
Great job man. Just about to order my seat for a standard seat (no gel). Presumably you can stable 1/4 inch out of the groove? Thanks for sharing very useful.
You and Dankwheelie could be long lost bothers lol
Luimoto da best hahaha
Do they have a seat cowl for the passenger? I think it would like awesome without the passenger seat.
How was it when going for a 2 hour ride or longer?
Does it bother you that the red and blue on the seat is opposite of the bike?
Nice, I'll check them out. My Ducati needs a little comfort. Are you going to COTA for the F1 or steering clear of it all?
Looking at the Luimoto prices and at the extra cost for tools + all the time to fix the seats, one can as well buy a ready made custom seat from Corbin. You can't screw up anything and it is simply plug and play. And no, I have nothing to do with Corbin, I just considering being a Corbin seat for my Z650.
Once again, Corbin seats are hard as F, and the best way to go is to send your seat to MotorcycleUpholstery dot com, best prices best service by fellow motorcycle racers
Doing everything but the exhaust switch is see
Nah I said there were several videos I needed to do before the exhaust. Exhaust is next.
I have a Gel seat .It gets boiling hot in the sun ,so don't blister your ass.lol
Great vid, very helpful/informative. Just ordered my Luimoto (custom) and need to tool up for the stapler for my Hockenheim S1000 RR. Do you know what reach is required (long nose length) to reach into the recess of the front seat? I had my eye on the Rapid R30 long nose.
from 1-10 How much more comfy did this seat get?
it's not soft and comfy, it just makes you ride for long distances without soreness, pain or muscle issues. I can go on long rides without any issues anymore
i need exhaust video, been waiting forever
Great video! I'm looking to do the same for my F750GS. I have a Sargent enduro seat, which is incredibly comfortable all day long. But the shape is really better suited to offroad or adventure riding. I'm curious about 2 things: What is your final verdict on this mod...would you do it again? And does the seat get blistering hot because of the gel retaining heat? Thanks.
just curious, does the gel compress over time? if so, I don't think it's a good idea to make it just nice. instead, have a some gell protruding
Hi whats the name of the foam/lining ?
Put the damn exhaust on already!!!
When are we gonna see the exhaust install?
People disliking this video because they tried doing this and failed, good job motonosity
My friend how is your filing after you ride with the new seat? I changed my seat and after 280 miles still hard for me.
The gel does not make the seat soft. The gel just makes the seat more comfortable for long rides.
What's the verdict? Does it feel better? Worth it? I am thinking about doing this mod as well. The stock seat on the 765 RS isn't too bad but the vibrations just kill me after awhile. Did it kill any road vibrations for you? Does the alcantara hold up well? Lastly, if you had a larger gel piece, would you recommend cutting it in a way so it would extend towards the gas tank as well?
Feels better, worth it. Subsides the vibrations. Alcantara holds up well. You can only install gel on the flat parts of the seat, but as much as possible.
Watched the video hoping to hear your feedback on how the seat felt after riding on it.
Please!!! Post up your thoughts, experience and feedback on it after long rides. I am looking
to improve my seat(2018 ZX10r) and want to be sure the time, effort and cost is justified.
Thanks and keep yourself safe!
Randy
The cost is justified, extremely comfortable. I have been riding with the gel for 2 years. Just don't do it yourself like he did. Send it to MotorcycleUpholstery dot com, no hassle
@@losangelesupholstery6773 😎👍❤️🏍
Hit up dewalt for a battery powered stapler
Wen is the exaust coming??
Hey I finally saved up enough to get a bike. I was looking into getting either the R1 Gixxer 1K or Kawasaki ninja 1K. And I’m interested in doing that gel insert was it worth the time and effort and is it still just as comfortable as it was the day you installed it?
Did the extra foam come with the gel or the seat skin when u got it
Dude, please watch out with staples and your dogs !!! My puppy ate one and died 2 days ago after 3 surgeries....... 😭
I'm really sorry about that
thats what it gets for being a subpar low iq animal
@@nielsnielsen9013 watch you don't cut yourself with that edge