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Just finished making me own set out of 8mm Alloy

Those are slick! Like that seat too.

Thanks Woodley,
Made the seat myself bout 12 mths ago

What kind of "bracket"did you use to connect the seat underneith the tank like the stock seat.

I made my own, a bit of 1.5mm channel profiled to the seat, fitting into the stock mount the same as the stock seat, the whole seat pan is made from 1.5mm steel plate, I formed it over an old starter motor stuck in a vice, and turned down a 10mm lip all the way round to keep its integrity. I made the initial template from an old beer carton, guess I'm just old school

Very cool, i may have to give that a shot, that seat is exactly what i've been thinking about doing.

Saltshaker, It's not that hard, once you start, and I was lucky to have a good mate who's a motor trimmer. the seat has three different density foams glued on top of one another then sculpted with an electric kitchen knife, took us a carton of beer and bout 4 hrs to get it finished.

i like beer. one more reason to give this a try.

I'm not to worried about the the foam, its the steel i'm not to familiar with. i read a good post on a differant site to use 16 guage steel. How does that compare to 1.5 plating? 1.5 seems really thick, though it obviously works well judging from your pics.

16 ga I think is about 1.5mm or thereabouts, it could be a little thicker, I only used 1.5mm because it was a offcut from a trailer I cut up & repaired, it seems to do the trick and I've had the seat on for bout a year with the missus as pillion for most of that time, I've had a few inquiries and am gonna make up a fibreglass mould, it'll save a lot of time if i've got to make a few