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The tank is a yamaha Mx or Yamaha DT tank from the mid 70"s. I"m pretty sure he did a few mods to it. I can see we dont have any yamaha dirtbike riders from the 70"s here.
Cheers Kev.
Glad youre happy with it.
Pretty sure Ive got an 'as new' Bates here as well, not my style - & a small rear - I'll check in my shed tomorrow
With the last one I actually fitted to a bike (flat-trackers not my thing really) , I used 2" of firm upholsterers sponge/foam , shaped then glued to the base. I then had a M/C seat upholsterer in Birmingham (R K Leighton , best there is !) cover the whole thing with dimpled vinyl, with a 1" flap with 'fake' pop-studs..
Im looking to see if I have a photo..
Wow! nice work I wish I had some of your fiberglass skills but never had the patience. Did you make a mold first or build off an other seat? If I had that skill, I would be making a replica of my teenage dream bike, Goose's kz from "Mad Max". There was a company out of Japan making replicas but they went out of biz. Again nice work!
Thanks..been doing it for years,these seats were moulded from an adapted Harly flat-track base I had, I just re-modelled it to fit the XS frame snugly.. was I used to make props for the film industry in the 80's and design & make car body-kits /spoilers .. One day Im going to design a Triumph T100ss style semi-bathtub enclosure for the XS & see how they sell!