1 Fitting a flat seat frame Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:18 pm
MMWW
active member
Gentleman, I'm calling in your wisdom once more.
A bit of background... I bought a K100 at the beginning of summer with the brilliant and very original idea of turning it into a flat tracker style bike. I'd been looking for about a year for a suitable project bike... something that needed some work doing to get it mechanically in shape before tackling the aesthetics. My budget has been very tight and I've been doing hours of reading on here to make sure I'm ordering the right parts etc.
So far I've changed the main rear seal, cleaned and lubed the splines, serviced the water/oil pump (going through 4 of those fiddly seals in the process!!), general oil change and have just ordered some new tyres (thanks for the help on the other thread chaps).
I ordered a flat seat and hoop frame and am looking to fit it onto the bike. It looks like a lot of people going for this look simply cut a few inches off the rear of the frame and weld on top the new hoop system to create a flatter sitting position for the 'streamline' seat.
Has anyone got any experience doing this while not compromising access to the battery, coolant reservoir etc? The seat frame I've received is a tad narrower than the current frame and so if welded straight on will make it impossible to remove the current battery.
Given budget I didn't especially want to order a smaller battery in case it has the same problem. If anyone has fitted a generic hoop frame to their bike I'd be interested in hearing your top tips.
To any purists out there this bike was in a pretty sad state when I got it and would've been broken for spares, so I'm trying to keep it alive!
Cheers
Mike
A bit of background... I bought a K100 at the beginning of summer with the brilliant and very original idea of turning it into a flat tracker style bike. I'd been looking for about a year for a suitable project bike... something that needed some work doing to get it mechanically in shape before tackling the aesthetics. My budget has been very tight and I've been doing hours of reading on here to make sure I'm ordering the right parts etc.
So far I've changed the main rear seal, cleaned and lubed the splines, serviced the water/oil pump (going through 4 of those fiddly seals in the process!!), general oil change and have just ordered some new tyres (thanks for the help on the other thread chaps).
I ordered a flat seat and hoop frame and am looking to fit it onto the bike. It looks like a lot of people going for this look simply cut a few inches off the rear of the frame and weld on top the new hoop system to create a flatter sitting position for the 'streamline' seat.
Has anyone got any experience doing this while not compromising access to the battery, coolant reservoir etc? The seat frame I've received is a tad narrower than the current frame and so if welded straight on will make it impossible to remove the current battery.
Given budget I didn't especially want to order a smaller battery in case it has the same problem. If anyone has fitted a generic hoop frame to their bike I'd be interested in hearing your top tips.
To any purists out there this bike was in a pretty sad state when I got it and would've been broken for spares, so I'm trying to keep it alive!
Cheers
Mike