The Classic Seat is NOT going to make you happy! I've spent several dollars to make it more comfy with n0 improvement (gel pad, ceramic beaded pad, more fat in the ass) all to no advantage. I'm seriously considering a Russel Day-long for not twice the price of a new OEM Classic seat. If you need a classic seat to try out, I'll let you have my extra for no more or less than I got it for. 1/2 Dealer price...PM me is desired. I was going to have a business in S. Florida put some custom gel into the extra Classic seat I'd gotten. But I recall the effects of a gel layer (1/2" gel with psuedo sheep skin covered pad), under my arse.; it was a magnet for engine heat
Several of us were heading from Birmingham to Nashville for RAAII. We weren't 100 miles down the road on 07.06.07 under cloudy skies and my cods were on fire. **** gel pad either soaked up the engine heat, or I was in a very big hurry to get to Smashville. Scot and Dennis will surely recall. I was on fire when we stopped, to chuck that gel pad aside. And who was that shorty on the hardley-ableson?
I will say though, for the good side of gel pads: You put it in the freezer for 30 minutes it'll be a blessing for quite a while on a hot day. But not too cold less you relish hemi-roids. In the dead of winter I lay it on the electric oil space heater for 30 minutes and it's good for 28 F degrees ride for nearly an hour. It depends on how much fluff is overhanging the pad. 28F degrees is my personal limit...an three beers