Mustang Two-Piece Touring Seat Review - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

DaveAlvarado · 05-27-2008, 12:58 AM

Finally got back into town and installed my new Mustang seat. I bought the "Vintage Wide Touring Seat" (part # 76591) direct from Mustang. Installation was really simple--basically Mustang provides a replacement for the part the front seat screws down to, and you re-use the mounting holes and screws from the stock seat. You pull off your stock seat, bolt on the little bracket thing (technical term for the part Mustang sends with the seat), unscrew the top of the bracket thing to mount the front seat, then slide the rear seat onto the little bracket thing and screw it down to the fender in the back. The little bracket thing is nicely chromed where it shows, so it's totally appropriate to use as a solo seat with the pillion removed.

Mustang seats, like Corbin seats, are made from a custom foam. Unlike Corbin, the Mustang seats are really squishy. More squishy than gel, they feel a lot like the pad on the OEM sissy bar if you happen to own one of those. However, it's a closed-cell foam so the seat doesn't squish all the way down to the base pan as you sit on the seat for a while. With the pillion seat installed, you get several inches of back support, since the front of the pillion seat actually sits on top of the driver's seat. The top of the pillion hits me right in the small of my back, if that gives you any indication of how much back support you get. It's not really enough to lean on, but it's enough to make you feel locked into the bike during hard-pulling acceleration, and enough to make you not feel like you're fighting the wind so much on the highway.

I didn't get a chance to do a really long ride yet, but I did burn a tank of gas today riding around on it and did an hour on the interstate to see how it would hold up. For reference, I've got about 10,000 miles of experience with the stock seat. With the stock, I'm good for about an hour before I feel like I could use a break, and at the 90 minute mark I really get antsy and want to stand up for a while. After an hour on the Mustang seat, I was wanting to get up, but it was to stretch my legs and arms and shoulders, not my butt. The squishyness in the foam really helps absorb little bumps from the highway.

The shape of the Mustang driver's seat is really similar to the stock. It looks like you just cut a notch out of the stock seat and raise the back end up a little and you get the Mustang. Sitting on it feels kind of the same if you just have the front seat as a solo. When you add the pillion seat, you get a feeling kind of like those low-slung seats like the Profiler or Stinger, but you're sitting up higher on more cushioning. Ground reach is about the same, but you do feel like you're sitting about half an inch to an inch forward from stock. If you like your legs stretched out, you might consider forward controls if you don't already have them.

As for the pillion seat, it's several inches wider than stock and much thicker. It looks a little goofy if you don't have a sissy bar or saddle bags, but it also looks *much* more comfortable than the stock pillion. If your wife or girlfriend is complaining about the seat on your bike, consider one of these.

The final verdict--the Mustang seat is what the stock seat should have been. It's not like the Corbin Classic Solo, where your butt is supposed to fit into a hard little bucket. Instead, the seat feels nice and wide and flat with plenty of cushioning. I'm extremely happy with it so far. It definitely passes the fatass test with plenty of room side-to-side for those of us who don't skimp on the fried goodness when we go out for rides.

I've got some pictures that I took while installing that I'll try to upload tomorrow.