Hi there Beau and welcome. This is a great site with great people to help you weigh up most of your options with just about any questions you may have. Regards the seat, I understand completely what you're talking about when you refer to a numb bum and the backache. I was in your position about 3 months ago and after talking and listening I decided on the corbin solo with back rest.
Here's my thread Now unfortunately I am still waiting for it after ordering it 6 weeks ago but I live in Aus and have to go through a supplier. Anyway,here's the big if on these seats, as you can see, the question on how hard the corbin seat is, continually comes up in discussion. The way I looked at it though was this, most believe the seat does mould to your own butt over time as they use a special type of foam. It will I think soften but it may take time. Then there was my backache. So I reckoned for me the backrest was an essential item in the big picture given one of my lower discs is made of titanium and some of the others aren't too flash either. With this in mind the corbin's was as good as they come but to take full advantage of it, I put on Deuce risers which raised the bars up and back so that I now sit upright not forward. The plan for me is like anyone's, on long hauls we want to be comfortable and for me, this setup will (fingers crossed) give me what I'm after. I hope this info helps but if I was you, I would enquire more about the Rick Meyer suggestion. Corbin's are as pricey as they come and there is still the question on how hard they are butt
if you could get exactly what you were after from this bloke at the same price or cheaper, then that certainly sounds like a good option provided a backrest was part of the deal, and it doesn't have a question mark on how hard it is. Good luck buddy and hope you keep us informed on the outcome. I should have mine soon
so I'll let everyone know what my first impressions are.
