Something to sit on…

Ready for fitting

It’s been a while since my last post, here’s the latest developments.

I’ve been busy sorting out the seat unit fixings I got from Moose. The issue was that they were too low by 20mm for my lanky 34″ pins, especially with the new rearsets fitted. I bought some aluminium bar and a sheet from fleabay, the seller can cut it to size so I ordered a bar to add to the top of the front bracket and 2 cubes for the rear. I know the front bar will be heavy but I’d rather be safe than sorry.

I went to see Malc who works in the engineering dept at work and who likes to play with metal things, for his advice. He used to do grass track and drag racing so has an interest in what I’m trying to achieve. After going through the options I left the brackets and ali bars with him and to my surprise he delivers the finished items the very next day!

Malc had tapped 2 holes on each side of the front bar so it’s secured to the bracket by 2 screws and the seat unit can screw directly into that. The rear bracked had the 2 cubes welded to the top and had also been tapped, nice! He then lent me a rivnut tool so I can install the rivnuts to the sub frame correctly. The finished article is very strong, a little on the heavy side but it aint gonna break that’s for sure.

That should cover my heftyness...

Next up was to cut the plate to add some strength to the seat area and I get to play with my new toy, a pop rivetter! I’ve never used one before so I tested it on the offcuts of the cut plate and it was simple enough. After carefully drilling the 4 holes I gingerly rivetted it and it came out ok I reckon.

Now the hard bit, to get the main fixing holes in the right place. I ended up inserting pop rivetts into the tapped holes and balancing the seat unit on top so I could mark where the holes should be. It actually worked! Once the holes had been cut in the seat foam for front fixing access the whole thing was complete.

I’m gonna have another chat with Malc and ask him to tap some holes into the ali rod I bought to make the fairing fixings then I can mount that and then cut it in half for easy access.

My Bally racing loom arrived a few weeks ago and I went over to Spencer’s on the ponce for the propper crimping tool. That’s the next job on the never ending todo list.

It's a bit cheeky..

That'll do nicely...