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MODEL SPECIFIC => SUZUKI BANDIT 250 & 400 => Topic started by: MasterM3 on April 02, 2006, 03:10:38 PM

Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: MasterM3 on April 02, 2006, 03:10:38 PM: I'd love to remove the passenger seat from the b4. Any ideas? Do most people fab their own part, or is there a place you can buy one? Any instruaction/tips?

http://www.members.shaw.ca/cgard/images/DSCF0404.JPG
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: BrianM on April 02, 2006, 03:15:53 PM: It's called a Seat Cowl... can be bough through Wild Hair:

http://www.whaccessories.com/SeatCowls.htm
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: PitterB4 on April 02, 2006, 03:29:46 PM: Suzuki made one. So did a German company, Gimble. I have a Gimble on my bike. Wild Hair was the only place I knew of handling the Gimble in the US. Maybe email them? I've hear that the owner there, Efran I believe, is a good guy.
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: MasterM3 on April 02, 2006, 03:41:36 PM: i didn't realize they were so expensive :(

I'm spending an awful lot of money on a bike that I was supposed to have sold a while ago. :boohoo:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Custom 600 on April 02, 2006, 03:55:46 PM: I had the same problem on my 600, couldn't find anything decent for ages. Ended up buying a race back end cheap from ebay and cutting it to bits to make my own. If your're handy with fibreglass and filler it'll be no problem...messy tho!!
(http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/custom600/th_02_1_b.jpg)This was the original one from ebay
(http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/custom600/th_DSC00187.jpg)And this is the nearly finished seat, needs proffesional spray job!!
There are loads of race seats cheap on ebay, don't matter if they are damaged if you're gona cut them up either.
Billy
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Thief400 on April 02, 2006, 04:36:56 PM: Quote from: "Custom 600"
I had the same problem on my 600, couldn't find anything decent for ages. Ended up buying a race back end cheap from ebay and cutting it to bits to make my own. If your're handy with fibreglass and filler it'll be no problem...messy tho!!
(http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/custom600/th_02_1_b.jpg)This was the original one from ebay
(http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/custom600/th_DSC00187.jpg)And this is the nearly finished seat, needs proffesional spray job!!
There are loads of race seats cheap on ebay, don't matter if they are damaged if you're gona cut them up either.
Billy

Im sorry but that is just butt UGLY :duh:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: gsxr400 racer on April 02, 2006, 06:19:30 PM: I dont think that is legal in the US either. Just for the US people!
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Custom 600 on April 03, 2006, 06:24:24 AM: Thanks, but I decided not to go for the pretty look. Gone for the real streetfighter look instead.
:monkeymoon:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: 2Fast4U on April 03, 2006, 08:57:45 AM: maybe here...

http://1tail.com/sa/c/Solo_Seat_Cowls.htm
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Thief400 on April 03, 2006, 09:28:35 AM: WELL it looks like it got into a fight and lost :stickpoke:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: PitterB4 on April 03, 2006, 09:51:52 AM: I think it looks kinda cool. The whole point of the streetfighter thing is too look different.
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Custom 600 on April 03, 2006, 05:18:36 PM: Suppose as long as I like it, it don't really matter. It's one of those things that you either really like or really dislike... Guess you've made your mind up Thief 400. :clap:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: 400runner on April 03, 2006, 08:36:32 PM: I like the way your bike looks. How about more photos? Is that an sv rear wheel? is the swingarm stock? Photos please. when I first saw it I thought it was one of the confederate bikes. Great job :clap:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Custom 600 on April 04, 2006, 05:26:32 PM: Cheers 400runner.
Not got anymore photos as yet, I'm still waiting for a Renthal rear sprocket. The wheel is from a 1200 Bandit with a 190 tyre on! The swingarm is a standard one with all brackets removed and smoothed then powdercoated matt black. Heres a bigger picture of my avatar for a closer look. The seat is still waiting a proffesional spray job too, it's primer at the moment.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/custom600/DSC00187.jpg)
I've fitted indicators front and rear today. Might see what a clear lense looks like in the black seat for the rear light?!? Need to sort a number plate light out too.
:roll:
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Red01 on April 05, 2006, 11:10:08 AM: C6, you gonna put padding on that?
What about skipping paint and just covering the whole thing in vinyl?

When I first saw this bigger picture, that's what I thought you'd done. Then I read the post and learned it was just primer.
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: PitterB4 on April 05, 2006, 12:31:00 PM: Quote from: "Custom 600"
... Need to sort a number plate light out too.
:roll:

You may want to look into some sort of a rear sprocket, too. :stickpoke:

I do like seeing that back tire exposed like that. That's why I'm hugger-less.
Title: Passenger Seat Delete?
Post by: Custom 600 on April 05, 2006, 03:56:19 PM: Thats not a bad idea about the vinyl, I'll try and dig some out 2moro
Sprocket should of come at begining of the week, but had an email today saying it got lost somehow, so another should be with me tomorrow...we'll see :?:
Yeh I like the open back look, but think it will need a hugger/mudguard for the MOT?!?!?
Few little things in the picture that have been sorted now. It has a clear round rear brake reservoir and clear piping. Oh and has has a proper exhaust bracket now too. Oh....and a new torque arm is needed as the old one looks a bit close the that 190 tyre, the list goes on...

MMmmm :roll: must find vinyl..........