So, just rode into work and took a detour. What a difference. There were two things I didn't like about the stock seat, and to some extend about the comfort seat as well. First, they have a dip, which forces you in a certain position. This feels good at first, but after a while when you want to move around a bit, you can't. The dip is less noticeable on the comfort seat, but it's still there. Second, it's too soft. Again, initially this feel comfortable, but because it is so soft (both seats by the way) after a while you feel the seat pushing in your crack (excuse my English) and against your tailbone. Exaggerated by the fact that they are round shaped left to right. So you're sitting on you crack instead of you bum bones.
Now, the NitroHeads seat. It's firm, it's flatter, it doesn't push against your tailbone -at all-. The slope it just right for me. It doesn't push me forward, neither is the front too high. On the Ducati seats you feel the seat pushing back against your ugghm scrotum when you slide forward. Really unpleasant on longer rides, or when it's warm. When you sit close to the tank on the NitroHeads seat you just sit close to the tank.
Seat height. This seat is lower than the comfort seat I've been using the past few months. But because it's firm, the difference is smaller than expected. I don't notice it in my knees. I did lower my bars by 10mm and they feel nearly the same as they were before.
Is this new seat perfect? Nearly. I have to take it on a day long ride yet, so finger crossed. About the only thing they could have done better is the fact that this seat is NOT waterproof. The black top surface is made of some perforated vinyl/pleather. Very comfy, and the right grippyness. May even offer some ventilation on hot days. But it will soak up water in prolonged wet rides. I'm fortunate to live in SoCal, so I don't care, but if you live in the UK you have to choose a different model. I believe this only applies to the Tracker seat.
verdict: 9/10
mandatory pics:
I deliberately chose red btw to break the lines of the Scrambler, and also blacked out the silver swoosh under the seat