LBE
Eddie Would Go.
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
So I wanted a seat that was lower than stock and shorter as well. Most of the Osiders that are on B1's are running seats with the hump shaved down and shotened in the rear. After ridding w/o a seat one day (for tuning purposes) I realized how encumbersom the stock seat can be. SO here is the build.
I must first say that I used a seat that I had put handholds in already, so the seat box had the hand hold cut outs. I recomend against the hand holds in the seat box, weakens the box too much.
With the seat cover removed and all the foam removed from the base, separate the seat box and seat base. For purposes of this discussion I will refer to the seat base as the white plastic piece.
Pic 1-3:
Cut the seat base almost completely off from at the first "rise" section. On mine, I also trimmed the bottom where the plastic moulding on the seat would have bolted to, but you can leave that. (On mine it exposes the lower front seat brackets when installed.)
When cutting the seat base, make sure that the lip sticking up is as high as the small flat part toward the front. (Also See pic 5)
Pic 4: With the base cut you can use the stock front 2 bolts to mount the base to the box. Yous may look a little different, my seat box was cut before for the hand holds, thust the notched looking sides.
Pic 5:
A view from the rear, you are actuallly looking at the lip on the seat base from the rear. Mabey easier to see why later on. My seat box was already cut short in this pic, but we will get to that in a min.
I must first say that I used a seat that I had put handholds in already, so the seat box had the hand hold cut outs. I recomend against the hand holds in the seat box, weakens the box too much.
With the seat cover removed and all the foam removed from the base, separate the seat box and seat base. For purposes of this discussion I will refer to the seat base as the white plastic piece.
Pic 1-3:
Cut the seat base almost completely off from at the first "rise" section. On mine, I also trimmed the bottom where the plastic moulding on the seat would have bolted to, but you can leave that. (On mine it exposes the lower front seat brackets when installed.)
When cutting the seat base, make sure that the lip sticking up is as high as the small flat part toward the front. (Also See pic 5)
Pic 4: With the base cut you can use the stock front 2 bolts to mount the base to the box. Yous may look a little different, my seat box was cut before for the hand holds, thust the notched looking sides.
Pic 5:
A view from the rear, you are actuallly looking at the lip on the seat base from the rear. Mabey easier to see why later on. My seat box was already cut short in this pic, but we will get to that in a min.