Low seats

[Greybeard]

What year R1200R did they start to offer low and LOW LOW seats please?

[Catchina]

I believe that was 2011, mine is the "low comfort" seat.

[dbrick]

The parts fiche for '07 shows both standard, low, and high seats available. These are not the "comfort" seats that were introduced later, I think in '09 or '10.

My '07 (bought by me in 2010) came with a low seat.

[deilenberger]

And as a reference point - the "low comfort" seat is the same height as the "standard un-comfort" seat. It's also a bit wider around the nose/tank area, so your legs at a stop aren't quite as long. Tried that swap - didn't work out for me. What did work (and I moved the seat from my '07 to '12) is having Sargent recover a stock seat and make it low. Took a while to break in, but used with a air-cushion barely inflated I can ride all day and touch the ground with both feet (not quite flatfoot) at a stop.

[Caroanbill]

Low seats throughout the range.

I have a low on my 2007 from new, plus a "low comfort" from 2011 - interchangeable with the 2007. The "low comfort" was actually the standard low seat sold in Australia from 2010 (and also sold as the "low comfort"). I actually find the 2011 low comfort, plus Airhawk, about the same for height when riding/ stopping, as the 2007 low standard. That's despite the visibly different shape.

Warning - here in Australia these seats are named in confusing and duplicate ways. In the end I ordered the part number off the 2011 R1200R in my dealer's showroom, because that was the seat I actually put on my own 2007 R1200R and knew it would fit. The "low comfort" had a different part number and no-one would vouch that it was the same seat ..