neevo
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Also kicked off my seat build today. Always preferred steel to fibreglass but didn't know how I was going to do the bump stop.
Decided to just start and see where it took me. Used the upside down frame to trace the seat pan out. Cut it out with the angle grinder:
Plan is to weld these bits together at the end with some bracing behind. Next up I needed to bend the sides down, a tough job as I could only do it by hand and in the end I used the angle grinder to help start the process. Here it is post bending with extra long sides so I can trim them back:
On the bike:
Next up was cutting the seat pan back further to bend up the rear of the seat area, the plan was to curve it up like Benjie's seats so I used my rear hub to get the curve:
Next up was cutting the bent up rear seat section, I used my grinders disc as it was almost the perfect size:
A nice line from the tank through to the bump stop:
Afterwards I cut the first of the segments, made an error here as I really should have made both sides out of 1 piece to minimize the welds, might redo it tomorrow. It needs trimming too as its a bit too wide still:
This first section will probably get cut by about half so I have enough room on the end to get a nice rounded end piece. Then need to French in a rear light.
Decided to just start and see where it took me. Used the upside down frame to trace the seat pan out. Cut it out with the angle grinder:
Plan is to weld these bits together at the end with some bracing behind. Next up I needed to bend the sides down, a tough job as I could only do it by hand and in the end I used the angle grinder to help start the process. Here it is post bending with extra long sides so I can trim them back:
On the bike:
Next up was cutting the seat pan back further to bend up the rear of the seat area, the plan was to curve it up like Benjie's seats so I used my rear hub to get the curve:
Next up was cutting the bent up rear seat section, I used my grinders disc as it was almost the perfect size:
A nice line from the tank through to the bump stop:
Afterwards I cut the first of the segments, made an error here as I really should have made both sides out of 1 piece to minimize the welds, might redo it tomorrow. It needs trimming too as its a bit too wide still:
This first section will probably get cut by about half so I have enough room on the end to get a nice rounded end piece. Then need to French in a rear light.