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For those that are having trouble with their seat moving forward and releasing from the latch at the back while they are riding,I have a fix.All I did was to cut a piece of fuel hose down the side and slip it over the back of the fuel tank mount,add a bit of silicon to keep it in place,simple.If one piece is not enough just add another over the top.

Now thats the sort of repair I like to see, cheap , effective and not unsightly. Pity you didnt use #8 wire to hold it on but there you go . . So when did you move from NZ .If the rest of that bike is as clean and tidy as the bits I can see it will be a nice bike
regards
hamish

Hiya Ken

this incident first happened to me, whilst on a ride... a long way from home. unfortunately when the seat swung off, the rubber bumps under the seat tore the wires out of the battery, and killed all electrics. (so there was a bodgey roadside repair to the wiring, and half a roll of duct tape used to secure the seat.)
annywaay... here is how I solved the problem.
It looks a bit rough, but it does the job.




cheers
Brett

duckboy wrote:this incident first happened to me, whilst on a ride... a long way from home. unfortunately when the seat swung off, the rubber bumps under the seat tore the wires out of the battery, and killed all electrics.

I hope you have'nt had any health's damage from such accident.
Ciao

Hey Duckboy
Good to here from you. Hopefully your rear end was still not in the seat when it hit the ground. Your fix is a bit less agricultural than mine,good work.

Luckily the seat never actually hit the ground, I was able to trap it between my leg, and the sidecover as it was half hanging off. It happended after a large bump in the road which lifted me out of the seat (actually the seat came with me), I think it snapped the wires (to the battery) as I was trying to re-position it without stopping.

Brett

Dear all

I have the same problem and just the fix provided by duc 906.

It helped for quite a while but the problem is here again. The fixing at the end of the seat (rear end of the the paso) pops of.

Any suggestions for a quick fix?

Thank you, Hardo

I'm planing to go the Duckboy route by putting a thicker plate on the end of the seat.

Duc906 wrote: Your fix is a bit less agricultural than mine,good work.

Either of those repairs would make any Kiwi beam with pride . Im wondering ( without racing out to look at my bike ) if the seat is being properly supported ( rubber buffers ) , if not it maybe that the seat base is bowing under rider( and pillion ) weight making the seat a bit shorter and .......

Not heard of this one. I got around this by using a Diopa single seat unit for the last few years apparently. It must be the plastic under tray deforming... tricky.

I used the now obsolete muffler retaining bolt, drilled out the hole a bit, and glued it in with some REAL GOOD glue. (Obsolete as I have after market mufflers)

Works real good

This is more of a trial to see if I can successfully upload a pic to my thread, so bear with me!

....damn.....

fixed

Awesome, it worked

Now I can put it up here instead of just a link
Thanks G.

PS feel free to delete these last messages