Melvin Hunter - Seats?

[loftyjohn]

I had my seat reworked by Melvin Hunter.

When I bought my @ it had been owned by a short a'se. The height had been reduced by 1 1/2 ins, and covered in Blue leather.
Being as i'm 6ft5ins and have a gammy right leg I needed a better seat.

Melvin will reshape and contour you seat to what ever shape and height you require.
I had it rebuilt to standard height plus 1inch with the extra thick Gel.
It's bloody superb, never get @ a'se any more

[SteveLee]

Had a Melvin Hunter seat for about 3 years and 30k miles - love it. I've done a couple of 600+ miles days with with no bum ache afterwards.

[Lord Stig]

I'm watching this with interest. I use a sheepskin on mine because the foam has collapsed and the cover has hardened off - for that reason GA Wells is not an option. I want to reduce the slope because that's a major reason for coccyx contact, although sitting more upright and on the backs of your thighs rather than slumped helps no end. The Non-king and queen Corbin and Touratech seats appear to be at least as slopy and standard, maybe more. Those are out then! Both the Corbin king and queen and the Melvin Hunter ones I've seen on this site appear to be fairly level, although they don't appear to give much room to reposition the behind, particularly off road. An option for sure, but the best one, at least on looks alone appears to me to be the Africa Queens seat. Has anyone tried this? On the other hand the leather sounds like a soggy time in waiting, and the extra foam thickness could be a problem for me at 5'9".

One other option I'd like to try is to source a seat from either a Varadero, a F650 or a KTM Adventure (I know the latter has come under as much critiscism as the AT bench) from a breaker and glue the foam and cover to the AT base. Probably cheaper than an AQ re-hash....

Stig