The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

Technical Discussion => Restoration Progress Logs => Topic started by: disco51 on May 14, 2014, 05:23:45 PM

Title: Working on a new seat
Post by: disco51 on May 14, 2014, 05:23:45 PM

Bought a crappy seat off ebay a while ago.  Finally got the seat pan fairly rust free, primed, and painted with some black.  

Here was the original seat...

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: disco51 on May 14, 2014, 05:26:23 PM

Working on the foam at a local shop who's going to do the upholstery.  This is going to be a second seat… having fun with it.

Thinking of using a dark brown cover.  

Got a spare tank and a front fender as well.  Thinking of going black with the dark brown seat.  Parts should be interchangeable - kind of like a set of clothes for the R65.

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: disco51 on May 19, 2014, 11:05:24 AM

Progress on the seat...
The upholstery guy did a great job.  

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: montmil on May 19, 2014, 11:54:13 AM

Great design with the seat. Room to move fore & aft but still with the posh bum stop.

My '83 R65 arrived with a butt ugly two-toned seat that some PO thought would tie in with the angle of the seat's tail piece. All I could figure.

The tank and tail piece had several coats of many colors; the last being a roller paint job with results as expected... a lovely orange peel effect.

At least it was mechanically well cared for.

Way back then-

(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi196.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa1%2Fmontmil%2FBMW%2520R65%2F83R6502.jpg&hash=76794b457b3028024210e815848aabd231072776) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/montmil/media/BMW%20R65/83R6502.jpg.html)

Now then-

(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi196.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa1%2Fmontmil%2FBMW%2520R65%2F83exhaust02a.jpg&hash=686486ede5f3438fb6337159ab7096761d5ba3e4) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/montmil/media/BMW%20R65/83exhaust02a.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: clonmore1 on May 20, 2014, 08:36:49 AM

Nice seat!

Love the shape and a pro job!!!

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: disco51 on May 29, 2014, 10:43:14 AM

Well, here it is on the bike.  Sets up some more work for me to do.  Since I have a 79 bike, the rear cowl on the newer seat goes up at a more defined angle on the rear frame.  Now my tail lights and license plate holder (rear fender removal kit from boxermetal) sit a bit lower than I would like leaving a less than tidy gap.  Since the paint job doesn't match either, it sticks out a bit as well.  
More to come...  Thoughts appreciated.

Title: Re: Working on a new seat
Post by: jeffcoatfilms on June 30, 2014, 09:59:52 PM

Nice job.  Definitely like the room to scoot back.  I'm looking at reworking a Corbin solo seat to fit my 79.