Valkyrie Motorcycle seat build
- City: Agassiz
- Listed: 2015-12-31 10:33 pm
- Expires: 6339 days, 14 hours
Description
The stock seat was too high and uncomfortable on my 1998 Valkyrie and no aftermarket ones are available. The bike is quite heavy and I had to make something that got my feet flat on the ground for stability. I took off the stock seat and molded a piece of 1/8 inch aluminum with a heavy hammer to fit the frame as tightly as possible. Since I don’t have machining tools, I had to make numerous cuts into the aluminum to bend it as is shown in the last aluminum photo. Fortunately my neighbor is an upholsterer so I got him to put a low profile diamond tufted seat– much better, now my feet are flat on the pavement. Last picture is stock original picture from brochure.
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nice bike but you should have put more padding into the top spot as teh passenger would be hurting soon
ya, I thought the same thing-but that bike probably wouldn’t really be good for long rides with a passenger anyway.