the new bike with the stock seat hurts my butt after a few hours at a time on it and the wife has started gnashing her teeth about it only being a single-seater and so I'm on the hunt for a new double seat.

in an ideal world, it would be easy to remove so that when she says "ANOTHER ride? are you serious? No, I can't face it" I can switch the seats and still maintain the awesome iron single-seater look. I actually like the look of those spring loaded seats, but obviously that's only a single-seater.

So, has anyone put a 2-up seater on an iron? what did you get? can you post a photo? Is it comfy? Can you get a sissy bar for the pillion? where'd you put the pillion pegs?

And finally - did you need to get new shocks? I have the stock-shocks on it at the moment and it's a fairly rough ride on these sydney roads; can't say I've bottomed them out yet but I'm sure I've come close on some of the speed humps dotted around the place.

I've looked at some of the corbin seats - http://www.corbin.com/harley/xl/hdxl7gl.shtml but they sure aren't cheap and I wonder how long it'd take to get em in. Oh, and I think they only make one that would fit the Iron (my Iron that is). They look a bit... big or something too... but you can't see the whole bike in the pics so it's hard to say. I also checked with Custom Motorcycle Seats (my uncle got a crocodile skinned one - nice), but they tell me I have to buy the double seat, then they'll re-shape & re-skin it - for $350+ plus whatever the seat costs, well.. that's a bit more than i was hoping to spend.

Advice/hints/tips much appreciated!

 I been thinking the same set up.... Solo spring seat most the time, with the occasional weekend 2up.

Just starting looking at different styles. Hadn't thought about shocks. 

http://shop.ebay.com.au/i.html?_nkw=harley+davidson+seat+sportster&_sacat=0&_dmpt=AU_Motorcycle_Parts_Accessories&_odkw=harley+davidson+seat&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

+1 for the Sundowner seat I would not be without it the standard seat that came on my bike was no better than a plank of wood as I said before Harley's make great bikes be shitty seats I paid $375 for a new Sundowner seat at my local dealer but also check ebay you may find a good second one there cheers.

 A couple of good examples that I think look pretty cool, especially the first one set up as a full tourer. Looks very military. These are off an Iron 883 site on Facebook which has heaps of photos. Note the rear shocks on the second one.

 

 

I've read some good reviews on the Mustang seats, and conflicting reports on the Sundowner. I think my biggest problem right now is finding somewhere local that sells them so I can at least sit on them before committing - it's not like these things are cheap. Mustang look like they make a seat with an extra bit for the pillion that you can take off when she's not coming.

I'm at a loss as to what to do about the shocks too - certainly not confident enough to do any kind of change myself either... oh the agony....

Check out Corbin       http://www.corbin.com/harley/xl/
 

So after searching high and low (and there are a bewildering array of seats available) and taking into account how much time i had before i needed the seat (< 3 weeks), I just picked up a Sundowner from Frasers along with some Pillion pegs. I figured I could worry about the shocks after actually taking a ride (although the initial tests don't look promising with us being able to bottom out the rear shocks by jumping up & down on the seat - so to speak).

Thanks for all the help & suggestions... the next hunt will be for some shocks - the Ikon guys seem nice... i'll start another thread for shocks

I know this is an old thread, but keen to hear feedback on that seat. I'm in the exact same position!

Cheers,
Jye