I have been after one of these for a long while. They seem to have stopped making them and although Google searches takes you to the Shad official website, there are no tabs or links to the seat any more.
I emailed them months ago and they never got back to me. It's a complete replacement seat and what you see is what you get. I was prompted to look again after I saw fellow Meldrew Trevor C has one fitted to his 2016 1000 V-Strom when the club last met. If I had thought about it then we could have swapped it off his bike onto mine to check that it fits okay.
In the end I didn't think about it until the next day. I found this one on eBay but in Germany. As it is pretty rare to see one advertised I took the plunge. My MasterCard taking the hit for the best part of £250 for it.
I checked on the V-Strom UK Facebook page that the seat from 2014 upto and including 2018 when mine was built all have the same seat fitment.
I hadn't heard and then checked on the tracking. The German tracking showed it had been brought to the UK last week and handed to Parcelforce, an arm of the Royal Mail. I followed their tracking and found it was awaiting import duty to be paid and also VAT! VAT is charged on the foreign post as well as the value of the goods. Goods under £135 aren't charged import duty. We live and learn.
I had to DM on Twitter parcelforce with my address and the tracking number to get a chance to pay online as they wrote to me! Yes. A letter. That arrived this morning.
I paid that today and requested Thursday 28th July for delivery. I bought the seat on the 18th and so I guess that ten days is good. It has been in the country since Friday 22nd.
I still have butterflies about it fitting and it being comfortable!
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