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Shad Comfort Seat

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The seat arrived today a out 1600. By 1615 it was fitted. It needed the locking post plate taking off the old yellow seat.  It's used but in excellent condition.  Let's hope it is not a white elephant and is comfortable. I'll give it a try over the weekend.

Shad Comfort Seat for DL1000 2014-2019

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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 Ge...