To Have Or Not To Have……Heated Seats?

Paul_F · Mar 28, 2023

I’ve never had a heated motorcycle seat. Occasionally I ride in the mid-forties. When wearing riding pants over regular clothes, do the heated seats provide noticeable comfort?

Heated insoles are certainly worthwhile but was wondering if the heated seat option is worthwhile as I am considering ordering a new seat.

Cheers!

Paul

SteveAikens · Mar 28, 2023

Toss a coin in the air!

I've found seat heating to be well worth having at times, and under pretty similar conditions, not so much. That's riding factory seats on my RT's.

I've never had a heated Sargent - running unheated one on my '15 RT, and am on the list to get another Russell - also without heat.

Unless it's cost prohibitive to you, I'd say get heat. When you want it, you will want it to be available to you.

rick601 · Mar 28, 2023

For me- YES...Heated grips too. I CAN ride without them but they can both be nice starting out on a cool morning or a cooling dusk.

lkchris · Mar 28, 2023

IMHO it should be really cold.

because ...

If you suffer from monkey butt when riding, consider a heated seat a monkey butt accelerator!

I have some old Gerbing heated pant liners that I might wear to keep warm, but I would probably not actually plug them in.

Best reason to have heated seat might be to please your passenger.

Visian · Mar 28, 2023

A heated seat hits you just right.

kbasa · Mar 28, 2023

Heated seats, at least for me, heat the inside of my thighs, which is where the big artery lives. Heat the blood up top and it's still warm when it gets to your feet.

It took me a while to realize that.

Monkey butt? Stop wearing cotton underwear which retains moisture and makes you either hot, cold or funky.

PoorUB · Mar 28, 2023

I have a heated seat on my 2018 RT, I have not used it. My wife runs the rear seat heat some. I do have a heated jacket liner, and use the heated grips. I run a Bead Rider on the seat and figured it wouldn't transfer the heat so I have never tried it. If it is that cold I often am wearing ski bibs.

Living up here in the tundra I will get out and ride in cold weather fairly often, I will ride in the fall until the snow makes the roads unpredictable.

tdupuis · Mar 28, 2023

I definitely like having a heated seat and have had them on several bikes. Even with my heated gear, I find that it helps to better regulate the correct amount of heat you get to differing parts of your body.

I also rode my GSA to work over the winter when it was 12F out (9-15F was what the display showed on my ride). But even at not such sub-freezing temps, I like having the ability to add heat. My wife loves the heated seat on her Triumph as well.

One trick I've done is I've bought a Dorman universal seat heater setup and put that into a non-heated seat if I had one I liked. I've done this with success and they're around $50.

adamchandler · Mar 28, 2023

Heated seats are for wimps.

I have heated seats on 3 of my 4 motorcycles.

joefish · Mar 28, 2023

Yep

Its nice to have heated seats and grips when you are out riding and suddenly gets cold...or short trips where you dont want to bundle too much...

kbasa · Mar 28, 2023

I’m getting old and I like my comfort.

Paul_F · Mar 29, 2023

Thank for all the warm feedback.

Now I just have to get off my butt and get around to ordering a new seat,with heat.

Paul

brownie0486 · Mar 29, 2023

4 bikes have had heated seats and grips. I use the grips often enough, the seat not so much [ but when I want that heated seat, it's there and has been used on a few occasions ]

irtax · Mar 29, 2023

I use my heated grips much more often than the seat, but the seat is great when the situation demands. I don't need it so much as a butt warmer, but it does a good job as a thigh warmer which tends to radiate the heat well to my legs.

henzilla · Mar 29, 2023

The worst thing with heated seats and grips is when your riding buddies play games turning both on in Summer. You’re riding along and start squirming around wondering why your tail feathers are on fire. Watching a payback unfold in front of you is priceless!

Currently don’t have a bike with option, but as mentioned, nice to hit a switch on occasion. Do have an aftermarket gel heated pad we have used on occasion.

Grips as well! H has an aftermarket set on one bike that even on very cold days, you can’t run on high very long without the hand dance :lol

patm · Mar 29, 2023

adamchandler said:
Heated seats are for wimps.

I have heated seats on 3 of my 4 motorcycles.

bigjohnsd · Mar 29, 2023

My current bike, '21 GSA, is the first I've owned with a heated seat.
I find it to be one of those things I didn't know I needed until I had one.

Just sayin....

pglaves · Mar 29, 2023

bigjohnsd said:
My current bike, '21 GSA, is the first I've owned with a heated seat.
I find it to be one of those things I didn't know I needed until I had one.

Just sayin....

That was precisely my situation with heated handgrips years ago.

boogerman · Mar 30, 2023

bigjohnsd said:
My current bike, '21 GSA, is the first I've owned with a heated seat.
I find it to be one of those things I didn't know I needed until I had one.

Just sayin....

Amen brother. I have riding buddy who has a GSA. It has a heated seat . He claims it gave him hemorrhoids

SteveAikens · Mar 30, 2023

Hmm. Obviously a limited genius.

Your buddy appears to not understand they have buttons to turn the heat on or off.... :doh

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