Modifying my RocCity Seat (finished!)

[SquadraCorse]

Some pictures on shortening and narrowing my RocCity seat to meet up with my Benelli tank.

To Start:

Shortened:

Cut lines:

Cut:

Tooling to hold everything in place:

Microbeads to fill the gap and first layer of glass:

Will finish it up tomorrow

 

[Rocan]

Re: Modifying my RocCity Seat

why not have just made one custom to begin with

 

[SquadraCorse]

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why not have just made one custom to begin with

It's cheaper, easier, and takes less time. I'll do one in the future, but at 100 bucks for a roccity one, it's hard to justify the investment in time and materials to make the same thing.

 

[Swagger]

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+1

I've made seats before and it's a lot of work. In my case, it's actually cheaper in the long run to buy, especially from a DTT family member, than to make it on my own.

 

[Flugtechnik]

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Nice. I guess the part where you made the cuts will be under the seat pad so you don't need to have a perfect surface finish there on the end result. Good work.

 

[rockcitycafe]

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couldn't have done it better myself, nice work

 

[JRK5892]

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hell ya nice work!

 

[SquadraCorse]

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Thanks for the comments guys. I added the last couple strips of glass tonight and filled the hole for the fixture. Tomorrow after it's cured I'll trim the front and give it a quick sand and should be tip-top. I fit it up today and it's seamless with the back of the tank.

 

[malloy]

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how is the quality of the rocity seat? looks a bit on the thin side.

 

[SquadraCorse]

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how is the quality of the rocity seat? looks a bit on the thin side.

Anything but. For the money you'd be a fool to make one. Sean does fantastic work. Very high strength to weight ratio, looks like it was vacuum bagged?

 

[rockcitycafe]

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looks like it was vacuum bagged?

nope, not the seats anyway, just made with care and patience

 

[HerrDeacon]

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nope, not the seats anyway, just made with care and patience

...and love :-*

Looks like a nice quality seat roccity, really nice work.

Nice job on the modifications too SC, look forward to seeing it on the bike.

 

[VonYinzer]

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Anything but. For the money you'd be a fool to make one. Sean does fantastic work. Very high strength to weight ratio, looks like it was vacuum bagged?

+1. Had one on my old cb500, and it was absolute top quality, not to mention a great deal. Id love to make myself a seat at some point but the cost + time compared to getting one from RocCity just isnt worth it when your trying to get a bike done on the quick. Ive recommended his pieces to anyone who will listen.

 

[SquadraCorse]

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Finished
Almost looks like I knew what I was doing

From this:

To this:

 

[gribbs]

I hacked up my Roc seat too, ultimately too much so. You did a killer job and it looks great on the bike with that tank!

Any other interesting mods to come we don't see so often?

 

[tWistedWheelz]

Wow, nice work! If you had not posted the pics of you doing the work, I would think roc just made it that way! Looks great with that tank! Great work man.

 

[VonYinzer]

+1. Great work!

 

[bpcough]

Great job!!!
I would like to see more pictures of your build as you go along.