cut down seat

i was moving some stuff from one end of my building to my new shop area today.anyway i came across a bunch of 900/1000 ltd seat foams in a pile without covers on them.i usually end up with my ass end about midway up the slope on ltd seats so ive always wanted to make a seat with a little shorter step on the back half ,but still retain the semi origional look of the seat.how does one go about doing this and making it look proportional?:blink:

here my favorite non turbo z1 in the gallery,how do you make a seat like that?

take a picture of the awesome bike into an upolstery shop and say i want this seat and they either will make it for you or go and find that bike and steal it for you, your choice.

Take or get an electric carving knife. Then shave the seat foam the way you would like it to be. Take it and the pan to upholstery business and have them cover it. Around here it's about $60-$80 and 4-5 days turnaround. Pick out the material too. Shops get good or bad reputations for good or shoddy work so it helps to ask around. Pics do help!

thats a seat off a zrx1100\1200, can you say ebay just use your seatpan and yuor done

If an electric carving knife isn't available, a hacksaw blade also readily slices through the foam rubber.

Good Luck!

PLUMMEN wrote:

i was moving some stuff from one end of my building to my new shop area today.anyway i came across a bunch of 900/1000 ltd seat foams in a pile without covers on them.i usually end up with my ass end about midway up the slope on ltd seats so ive always wanted to make a seat with a little shorter step on the back half ,but still retain the semi origional look of the seat.how does one go about doing this and making it look proportional?:blink:

That's easy! keep yer ol 200 lb fat ass off of it! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

ill probably spend a lot of time laying on top of tank on this one with a deathgrip on bars remembering how easy Lorcan makes it look,not to mention making lots of promises to your boss that if he gets me out of this one i wont dump the clutch quite so hard the next time!:woohoo:

gorack wrote:

thats a seat off a zrx1100\1200, can you say ebay just use your seatpan and yuor done

A ZRX seat is that "modern" sloped piece of damn crap. You don't want that I don't think? Who wants to sit on something sloped forward at 35 degrees? Not me. The rest of the world maybe, but sitting sloped forward at 35 degrees is for the birds. I doubt even birds are stupid enough to want to perch on a perch sloped at 35 degrees, but that's what we get with "modern" crap. Oh well they aint going to sell this garbage here! and that's probably why the ZRX is gone. Anyone that would want a retro would want something you can ride comfortably, but that's too much to hope for today I'm afraid.

dont worry Ron,im trying to keep basically origional look of seat,just a little shorter is all!:laugh: imdefinately stuck in the 1970s,no crotch rocket for me!