Just another cafe seat

[Napoleon047]

Low profile two person cafe seat experiment. I dont have any side covers for this bike, so I went ahead and integrated them into the seat. Others on here have had problems with the ebay cafe seats not fitting the GS frame well, so I took the plunge. This is my first fiberglass project, so we shall see how it goes.

[80GS750]

looks like a good start....

[OhioEric]

Good for you!

keep us posted....i've always wanted to try a fiberglass project....

[Richharr]

looks great, wanna get rid of one of those 9"s my 351w is eating jeep rear ends regularly

[Napoleon047]

LOL, those are Toyota axles. Your best bang for the buck would be a ford 8.8 from an explorer, 31 spline axles, disc brakes, some with positrac. Plus they are the correct bolt pattern etc. Fairly easy swap, I have done several.

[Napoleon047]

Sorry about the crappy cell phone cam pic, but you can see that I have done some smoothing of the surface and I have chosen my padding and upholstery material. The padding is what is left of a USGI sleeping pad (0.375" thick closed cell foam). Its not very thick, I know, but its better than nothing and I am trying to keep it simple after all. The marine vinyl is what I have left over from a soft top project.

Also, you can see the curved cutout on the rear of the seat for the cat eye shaped tail light I will be using.

[Richharr]

LOL, those are Toyota axles. Your best bang for the buck would be a ford 8.8 from an explorer, 31 spline axles, disc brakes, some with positrac. Plus they are the correct bolt pattern etc. Fairly easy swap, I have done several.

I thought they were ford 9" at first glance, I have a waggy 44 out back, but they are getting hard to come by.

[Napoleon047]

I thought they were ford 9" at first glance, I have a waggy 44 out back, but they are getting hard to come by.

Do you off-road at all? I'm guessing not since you are FDNY and having been there myself, there really isn't anywhere to wheel.

Until recently, I worked for a buddy with an off-road shop, so I have experience with tube bending, notching etc, but this is my first bike, someday it may get a completely custom frame, but not for a while.

[Joe C]

Cool project, and props for diving in and doing it! Maybe some aluminum side panels if the integrated 'glass doesn't work out for that.