I still need to clean it up, round the corners and grind the welds mostly, and hit it with paint. Anyways it was complete enough to proceed with the tail section.
Motivated by a post I saw about making a seat, and the lack of desire to order another one from AirTech (great product, but hard to judge how it will luck before ordering) I proceeded to make one. Armed with a pile of fiberglass supplies and a KZ440 tail section I started.
Wrapped in tin foil.
Base coats.
Roughed out with the KZ tail section mocked up.
Roughed out.
After laying a bunch more fiberglass and trimming, it was time to let the dust settle.
Starting to look like a seat.
Ugly underside.
Getting there.
And another coat...
On the bike.
Primed and mounted
I am still working on working cleaning up all of the little imperfections in the seat. I plan on painting it semi-gloss black (as I have no easy way to match the Norton British Racing Green on the tank) with white numbering backgrounds and hand painted “603” (my VMX race number) numbers on it. I generally think numbering non-race bikes is silly, though I do give a pass if it is the same number of the other race bikes in a garage. I will probably have Thrasher Bill do some striping as well, nothing fancy, just the traditional style coachlines separating the colors and highlighting the numbers. I already have stick-on closed cell foam to pad the seat. To be completely honest if I was to do this over again I would have just ordered another seat from AirTech. Though I am totally happy with the seat, it would have been cheaper to buy one, that is before factoring in the countless hours of labor.
