I recently bought a custom seat on eBay from a company called Texavina. I’d been looking at their products for a while and seen a few members here had them, and seem happy with them so I pulled the trigger and got one. They are made in Vietnam and shipped overseas. They are very reasonably priced in my opinion so I thought I’d write a review here as there is little information to be found anywhere on them online. The sellers eBay name is daytrader-07 and they offer seats for many makes and models of bikes and advertise as direct bolt on using your factory hinge brackets.
First off, before I ordered I contacted the seller through eBay and asked about making a custom seat that wasn’t offered in their store. I saw a seat for an SR500 with tuck and roll pattern like I wanted but they did not have one quite like that for my 75xs650. The xs seat has the pattern wrapped down the sides as pictured above, and I only wanted it on the top portion of the seat with a standard flat sidewalk. The seller responded to me in less than 12 hrs stating no problem to make it like I wanted and told me how to order it. In less than a week after paying he sent me pictures before shipping it. Shipping time is estimated 4-6 weeks.
The seat arrived today at almost 4 weeks on the nose. Their packaging was simply a 1” styrofoam box taped together. Surprisingly with no cardboard It was actually quite rigid and sustained no damage in shipping.
First impression is the fit and finish on the cover is very nice. It comes with a removable strap also to suit you preference. The seat pan is metal and comes with bolts to mount the hinges and latches that you must take off you factory seat. It even comes with the rubber bumpers for the contact points on your frame.
Mounting was very straight forward. Bolt on your hinges and go. A couple of notes here though. 1. When mounting the hinge plates, leave them loose and insert the hing pins before tightening so they will align properly. 2. The seat does not lift open quite as far as the factory seat, but I don’t see this as a problem. 3. The biggest issue was with my seat latch not fitting. This new seat pan is almost a half inch narrower than factory. The seat latch makes contact with the outside lip of the pan and cannot be bolted on. It is off by about 1/4-3/8” and the bolts won’t go in. The latch lines up ok with the lock but cannot bolt it down. I will have to modify the latch pin somehow to get this to work.
Here are the two seats to compare. The new seat is lower profile and pretty firm. I can probably fix the latch issue but it will take some work. The seat sits tight on the tank and I will be looking into some sort of protectant to prevent any paint damage on my fresh paint. Overall I am very happy with the purchase. My goal is to create a hybrid ‘75 with certain touches to reflect an xs2, such as seat, gauges, and eventually exhaust. This seat fits the bill at a cost that did not break the bank.
I hope this review helps anyone else looking at buying one of these seats.
First off, before I ordered I contacted the seller through eBay and asked about making a custom seat that wasn’t offered in their store. I saw a seat for an SR500 with tuck and roll pattern like I wanted but they did not have one quite like that for my 75xs650. The xs seat has the pattern wrapped down the sides as pictured above, and I only wanted it on the top portion of the seat with a standard flat sidewalk. The seller responded to me in less than 12 hrs stating no problem to make it like I wanted and told me how to order it. In less than a week after paying he sent me pictures before shipping it. Shipping time is estimated 4-6 weeks.
The seat arrived today at almost 4 weeks on the nose. Their packaging was simply a 1” styrofoam box taped together. Surprisingly with no cardboard It was actually quite rigid and sustained no damage in shipping.
First impression is the fit and finish on the cover is very nice. It comes with a removable strap also to suit you preference. The seat pan is metal and comes with bolts to mount the hinges and latches that you must take off you factory seat. It even comes with the rubber bumpers for the contact points on your frame.
Mounting was very straight forward. Bolt on your hinges and go. A couple of notes here though. 1. When mounting the hinge plates, leave them loose and insert the hing pins before tightening so they will align properly. 2. The seat does not lift open quite as far as the factory seat, but I don’t see this as a problem. 3. The biggest issue was with my seat latch not fitting. This new seat pan is almost a half inch narrower than factory. The seat latch makes contact with the outside lip of the pan and cannot be bolted on. It is off by about 1/4-3/8” and the bolts won’t go in. The latch lines up ok with the lock but cannot bolt it down. I will have to modify the latch pin somehow to get this to work.
Here are the two seats to compare. The new seat is lower profile and pretty firm. I can probably fix the latch issue but it will take some work. The seat sits tight on the tank and I will be looking into some sort of protectant to prevent any paint damage on my fresh paint. Overall I am very happy with the purchase. My goal is to create a hybrid ‘75 with certain touches to reflect an xs2, such as seat, gauges, and eventually exhaust. This seat fits the bill at a cost that did not break the bank.
I hope this review helps anyone else looking at buying one of these seats.
