Removeable seat cowl?

[Swagger]

Ya know....something occurred to me the other day and I'm sure it's rattled it's way into other people's brains. My 96 Triumph SuperIII (Factory hotrod, Cosworth powered Daytona 900) has a removable cowl over the rear portion of the seat.
Why not work something like this up for a Cafe project bike?

I'm getting ready to start another bike, it's a CB500T that will eventually be the one my lady rides since the SuperIII and the SprintST are both too high for her (She's 5'2" on a good day...hehehe) and she hates anything that looks remotely like a cruiser.

Anyway thus far the plan is to use the stock Seatpan as many here have done with the stock foam shaved down, may add a 3/4" layer or closed cell high density foam from a work mat I have laying around, then have the whole thing re-upholstered with leopard print marine vinyl. I'll use the rear of the stock tank and work up the cowl, use Dzur fasteners to hold it in place.

Thoughts?

 

[locOleoN]

I think that will work for sure.
are you planning to remove the rear fender? if so, you are gonna have to figure out how to mount the rear taillght.
usually its mounted to the rear cowl, so if you are gonna make it removable, you'll have to think about another way/place to mount the light & plate.

post up some pics!!

 

[Swagger]

Thus far the plan is to bracket the cat eye tail light/plate mount directly to the base of the seat, such that the plate will satisfy the local constabulary regarding some sort of rear fender (It fits the technicality of the law...I checked).

 

[digitalbroccoli]

A good starting point for that type of thing is to take a trip down to the local triumph dealer, and take a peek at the factory cowl seat cover for the thruxton. Its mounted very simply, and looking at it gave me a ton of ideas on what and how to do it. In the end I opted to replace the rear portion of the seat, but I had a couple of halfway decent mockups of a cover cowl.

 

[Swagger]

Same way it's mounted on my SuperIII....

 

[Gordon]

We were planning to make a removable cowl too. But due to time constraints, we just went ahead with a single seat.

I think it should be fairly easy to make a removable cowl. And the best option would probably be to use bolts to attach the cowl. The under part of the cowl should be half filled with foam and seat cover at the front. If there is a rear fender, taillamp on rear fender. If not, the taillight bracket will obviously be on the seat pan itself.

 

[HerrDeacon]

Same way it's mounted on my SuperIII....

Which is? Any pics?

 

[Swagger]

I love this bike. Only a few made it over here apparently, has all the Cosworth goodies plus 39mm flat slides with pods, full stainless 3 into 1 tuned exhaust (no split center tube) and a nice port job on the head. It's a beast.

 

[HerrDeacon]

Nice bike Swagger! Have any pics with the seat cowl removed? Is that a carbon fibre front fender. Looks good.

 

[JKR4]

I have a removable seat cowl on my project bike (cb350F) the cowl is for a 99-2002 Triumph Bonnie. I was able to make it fit custom I welded some threaded inserts into the seat pan, drilled some holes in the cowl and shaved off some surface area so it would fit better. Pretty simple really...

Jerrad

 

[Swagger]

Nice bike Swagger! Have any pics with the seat cowl removed? Is that a carbon fibre front fender. Looks good.

I'll have to snap a pic without, don't have one yet. I used this one primarily on the track while it/I was competitive, hence no pillion pegs so the cowl's only been off once. It's back on the street now and more fun really. It's got a lot of CF bits, mostly from the factory since it's a limited edition...let's see....
-Front fender
-rear hugger
-seat cowl
-rear body work
-inner fairing bits
-gauge mounts

there's some Titanium bits scattered all over it too. It's floating right about 390 pounds which is significantly lighter than stock....but it's still mid-90's tech. Works a treat in the canyons but it's outclassed on the track.

I have a removable seat cowl on my project bike (cb350F) the cowl is for a 99-2002 Triumph Bonnie. I was able to make it fit custom I welded some threaded inserts into the seat pan, drilled some holes in the cowl and shaved off some surface area so it would fit better. Pretty simple really...

I like, and that's exactly what I'm thinking for a couple projects here. Nice!