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Mighty Mike
HEAVY DUTY Magazine
|March/April 2019
There’s more to Mike Corbin than being an iconic motorcycle seat engineer ...
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Ask the average American biker if he’s heard of Mike Corbin and he will likely say, “Oh, he’s the seat guy”.
Well beginning his career as a US Navy electrician, Mike has gone on to design multiple inventions and along the way held a land speed record and earned a degree from Harvard.
This story is from the March/April 2019 edition of HEAVY DUTY Magazine.
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