BSA Seat on a XS650

[Johnny Glass]

The other night I was at a friends shop where I store my XS heritage special. I had trimmed the seat pan and foam down because I did not like the stepped up seat. I re-upholstered the seat with some fabric I had from another project. I really just wanted to see if I could do it myself, and how it would look. Turned out none to good:

But if you look in the back of that photo their is a BSA with a repop a65 seat. I grabbed the seat and set it on the bike just to see how it would look, and I think it looked rather well:

There should be very little fabbing to make it work. So off to Flea-bay I went to find my own bsa seat. I ended up winning this one that will need re-upholstered when I receive it.

Sorry for the crappy pics but all I have is my phones camera.

Has anyone else tried this? I've some searching both on this forum and with the google machine and came up with nothing? Once I figure it out I will post more pics.

 

[nj1639]

I've got a '79 seat on my '83. Anything can be made to work with a little ingenuity.
I removed all the upper prrotuberances from the rail, fabbed a fiberglass pan to fit the rail and then fabbed the '79 seat to fit the glass pan.

 

[Johnny Glass]

The good thing about this is I'll be able to unbolt the original mounting brackets off the old seat pan. Then I hope to be able to bolt them right up to the bsa seat pan. If the pan is the same as my buddy's repop, I should be able to mount it up just like the factory seat. I hope so anyway.