Cafe racer style seat unit

[berko_lad]

Has anyone ever fitted something like this to a storm? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAFE-RACER-SE ... 3ccbe56dab

I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but I saw one fitted to a blade last year and it looked oddly 'right'.

[alternative_vtr]

Hi

I bought one for my GS Suzuki project I have been doing for some time. The seat needs a lot of work to use in my opinion, I have fibreglassed a aluminium plate to the base and then started to shape it. It will then spraying and need foam for the seat base then covering in something.

I also bought a seat off a Triumph of some sort which will require less work so I may use that instead.

[berko_lad]

Ah... thanks.

[tony.mon]

It isn't big or clever to race cafe's, they have the inherent disadvantage of bring a building, or in the case of mobile vans, being diesel, heavy, full of buns and slow.
Pick on something your own size, you bully.

I'm off to race gritters. At least they have a slim chance against me, if it's icy and snowing.


On a sensible note, the problem with your idea is that once you have a bumstop seat fitted the front fairing looks wrong- the lower panels are simply too bulbous. But anything with a more "swept-back" leading edge profile wouldn't clear the rads.

That's about as far as I've got with my thinking on that one, really, but I know what you mean- the std rear seat surround just makes it look too lardy in the butt.
But high level pipes mask it....