Making Seat For Cafe Racer

Making a cafe racer seat.

Making seat for cafe racer. It s the anchor point on many café racer projects whether you shape it in foam on the seat fiberglass it or shape it out of sheet metal not a skill i possess the café racer tail cowl can make or break the style of your build. If you want to ask me further questions or if these video s are just valuable enough for you to thank me in a different way than the usual thumbs up cons. I started off by cutting out some cardboard to fill in the gap of the subframe. However if you have a relatively popular bike such as a honda cb or yamaha xs you should be.

How to fiberglass your own café racer tail cowl. And not the fun kind. A lightweight fiberglass cafe racer seat is typically lighter than the stock unit and it s a must for the cafe look. A lot of people fall into the trap of the online café racer seat made specifically for your bike.

The typical café racer of the 60s used a seat that resembled the manx norton racers complete with the tail hump. These seats are available from many sources but the owner must decide if he or she intends to carry a passenger single or double seat. How to make the perfect café racer or scrambler seat. Tuffside 25 cafe racer seat.

Our 23 long seat is designed to fit smaller bikes like the sr500 cb350 cb500 etc. This seat is the modified seat for cafe racer maybe it have to modify a few things to make it fit your motorcycle. This is not a super complicated process just time consuming. Watch as herm narciso from dime city cyc.

Any number of companies make these units. Many are universal fit meaning you will have to fabricate your own mounting brackets. Tuffside 23 cafe racer seat. I fiddled with the tailpiece in the past but in the end it just didn t fit right so i went ahead and made one from scratch.

If any lines are visible they easily wash off with soap and warm water. The 25 long seat is designed to fit longer skinny framed bikes like the yamaha xs650.