Posted by thehoghunter on June 27, 2003 at 17:59:31:
In Reply to: SeegerCycle GTS Seats Don't Fit?! posted by INDYANBOI on June 24, 2003 at 05:28:14:
Indyanboi emailed me asking me about the seat and what was wrong - this was my response.
>What is wrong with the seat...well, it looks great, feels comfortable
>(although I've yet to ride the bike with it on) and the craftmanship
of
>the seat is great - just the design is not set up for a Savage. If
you
>take the seat and try to just put it on the bike it will scrap the
hell
>out of your gas tank.
>
>Instead of using the side mounting bolts, they use only the front
>mounting bolts (that also hold on the gas tank). They couldn't use
the
>old way of slipping the front of the seat under the tab that usually
>goes on top of the gas tank tab since it's one seat instead of two
(the
>back end is held on by slipping it under the /--\ bracket on the back
>of the back fender (just like the original passenger seat).
>So the back of the Seeger seat slips under the bracket on the fender -
>the side bolts aren't used at all - the front doesn't slip under that
>tab - the tab isn't used. Seeger seat bolts to the gas tank tab. But
>the problem is probably how they fit the back part. It's a plastic
>piece that is held on with some type of rivet (into the metal of the
>seat). Those rivets aren't allowing the seat to go back far enough to
>clear the gas tank. So the metal piece on the front of the seat that
>is suppose to hold the seat onto the bike at the gas tank, scraps the
>heck out of the gas tank. And it also crushes the nose of the seat so
>that it isn't smooth looking. I've tried a couple of different things
>without tearing up the seat but nothing so far has worked. When I
>asked Seeger about it they said "Well, if you figure it out, let us
>know so we can change the design". I get the impression those guys
>don't give a damn about Savage owners.
>
>I might say "well, this bike was a junk yard dog - maybe it would fit
a
>Savage - maybe my frame is messed up" but I have two Savages. I know
>the original one has never been dropped, run over, been in an
accident.
> And the seat does the same thing on it.
>Anyway, I bought the seat because no one else seemed to have one that
>'fit' the Savage. All the other seats mentioned on the web site I've
>never found. And I also bought the seat to see what quality of work
>Seeger had before spending all that $$$ on the chopper kit. Again,
>with the chopper kit, there was a flaw with design. I believe I
>mentioned it in my post about the front axle.
>
>If you don't mind pop-ups, you can see the seat (which is just put
into
>place not bolted down) I got.
http://thehoghunter.tripod.com/ls650.htm
>It's the last picture on the page. It looks okay as far as placement
>because I knocked the heck out of the rear bracket on the back fender
>to try to get the thing to work (moved it from | to \ - about an inch
>and a half). If I get a chance, I'll try to get some better pictures
>of the problem. Also, the seat I got was the Seeger Toba (SB 30200) -
>since they make each by hand, it's good quality but unfortunately, the
>design wasn't correct for a Savage.