Thought I'd weigh in on the seat/mirror topics. Reached 1800 miles on my yellow Icon before putting it away for the winter, and so far there are two things I have modded for comfort reasons - the seat and the handgrips. Yep, I've got a skinny butt and no matter how much I tried to break it in (seat or butt) the comfort did not improve. Thanks to an embarrassing screwup on the part of my dealer during the purchasing process, I worked out a deal on the Ducati comfort seat. Yes, it's better. When I first installed it I felt no difference, but after putting many more miles on it I see that it really is more comfortable. How much? Some. Maybe I can get 150 miles out of it before squirming instead of 75 miles. But any improvement is a good improvement.
The handgrips - the stock bars/grips just felt too small for my hands. Didn't think my hands were all that big, but I felt like I was holding onto fat pencils and my hand muscles just got tired too quickly. Slipped a set of dense foam 'grab-ons' over the stock grips and my hands are MUCH happier now.
And the mirrors, well I thought they were pretty wonky when I first got the bike but have become accustomed to them. The view on them is much better than the bar end mirrors I had on my Bonneville, though they do sit up pretty high. Thinking of changing the stock bars to something lower, maybe over the winter. Which will affect the mirror view, and so on...
Markstar's picture of his red Scrambler shows a flyscreen installed. I've been considering one and like the size of the one in his picture. Can anyone identify it? Markstar? Are you listening? How about a picture from the front of the bike, too?
