{"id":1490,"date":"2020-06-16T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2020-06-16T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:22:32","slug":"xt600-seat-fitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"XT600 seat fitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t have a seat kicking around and don’t feel like making one, I will at some point but not this time, I’ll check out eBay and see whats going like a budgie…cheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loads to choose from, quite like some of the Chinese offerings but the flattish ones are all geared up to look like cafe racer style, what I would really like is something similar to an MTX50 seat, flat and rides over the tank by a few inches, very simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have looked at too many seats and I’m getting bored, I’ll just get something I like the look of and worry about how to blend it with the tank later, my choice is from a 2016 Yamaha Tracer 700, taken from a showroom bike, 35 quid delivered and it’s mint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There it is in all it’s glory, I have roughly cut a few cross braces from some left overs from a guttering job I did for my mum, thats all I could find, this gives me some idea of how to make a sub-frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bent a length of tube very simply just to see where to go with this, starting to look like a fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few tweaks on the bender and it’s starting to take shape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks pretty tidy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There it sit’s, I used some engineering string attached to the centre of the handle bars and lined that up with the centre of the rear tyre so I could eye up where to weld the subrame, the technology we use is mind blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting to look alright, need to make another brace for the right side, feels odd to make the braces differently but this is the first single sided swing arm bike I have built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t have a seat kicking around and don’t feel like making one, I will at some point but not this time, I’ll check out eBay and see whats going like a budgie…cheep. Loads to choose from, quite like some of the Chinese offerings but the flattish ones are all Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}