Seat Tips and Tricks

Working with the Bumfortable can be both a fun and sometimes little frustrating project. Here a few things I've learned.

• The seat is thermo molded rubber, (100% Recycled). It can be remolded buy gentle heating. What I've done is preheat my oven to about 100^o to 120^oF then turn it off. Place the seat in the oven for a couple of minutes and it will become warm and remoldable. It takes only a short amount of time and a low heat, so be careful. You can then sit in the seat and let it cool, taking the shape of your unique rear!   

Customer FeedBack

Here's some feedback from people using the Bumfortables:

Marsh from Minnesota posted this on the MIPP Yahoo group:

"OK, this is an unabashed PLUG for the Gurney Gears Bumfortable seat.  I bought a couple from Phil Taylor back when I had the F1, and thought it was pretty comfortable.  But since then, I've found that it was the cure for several ill fitting kayaks.  I stripped out the factory seat in a Stratus that I raced at Two Harbors, used it as a drop-in in a boat Cal built, and finally this afternoon stuffed it in the cockpit of my Match II wildwater boat that *had* a bikini seat.molded in.  Note the emphasis on 'had'.  Bikini seats are aptly named - if you shouldn't wear a bikini bottom, you won't fit those freaking seats!.  It fell victim to a bit of quick work with a Dremel tool and cutoff wheel.  The Bumfortable dropped right in, and off I went for the first comfortable paddle I've had in that boat. Without question, one of the true saviours of the backside."

James wrote to me about the seat after the Western Michigan Coastal Kayak Association symposium :

"I sat in my boat teaching, which is stressful for my bony butt, all morning and all afternoon and had no pain.  Love it!"

Another happy seat owner :

Phil,

Feel free to do whatever you wish with this:

I recently purchased a Bumfortable seat. I wish I had bought one when they first became available. This was literally the first time in 27 years of paddling my Isere that I didn't get tailbone pain. And I didn't need my extra thigh supports. My feet and legs don't fall asleep anymore with the Bumfortable! The seat is super easy to install and a big bonus is that it also fits my Dart. So I can race the USCA downriver class comfortably now.

The Bumfortable seat is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to improve the paddling experience that I have come across in almost 3 decades of kayaking.

Kevin Palmquist
Batavia, IL