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General Discussion => Wanted / For Sale => Topic started by: hanksie on May 17, 2010, 05:49:04 PM

Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: hanksie on May 17, 2010, 05:49:04 PM
Am in need of seat foam for a 74.5 Piner,long/tall style.Mine is on the too soft side,want something alittle firmer,but not new KTM hard.  Thanks, Bill
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: Ron on May 20, 2010, 10:00:13 AM
Bill,
I got the seat foam your looking for from Al Buehner (in the suppliers list).
Very nice fit, but a little stiffer than I expected.
Hopefully it will break-in and soften up a little.
Ron
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: hanksie on May 21, 2010, 05:29:48 AM
Ron, I tried one from Al.Perfect fit,just too hard for me.For all the more I get to ride I`d never get one broke in.Thanks for the reply,  Bill
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: Mike Lenz on May 21, 2010, 04:18:33 PM
Take a inch wood drill bit and drill holes in the foam in the bottom 3/4 of the way up. Keep drilling until you get it where you want it.
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: joe novak on May 21, 2010, 04:22:18 PM
Mike,  What a great idea!   It seems as though the firmer the foam, the better that technique would work.   What would be a ball-park number of holes one might drill?   Thank you,  Joe
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: garrettccovington on May 22, 2010, 12:52:51 AM
I like the drill idea.
  On 1 of my BMW's I bought a Corbin Gunfighter seat and it was like sitting on a 2 X 8.  I drilled out the rivits peeled back the seat, took a electric carving knife a sliced out a 3/8 piece of foam the width and length of The Gel Pad I bought from my local BMW dealer and slipped it into the cutout.  Pulled the cover back over it and cherry rivited it back in place.  Looks perfect and  Very Comfortable now.

G

72 six-day
79 KTM MC80 250
Title: Wanted: Seat foam
Post by: kenbike on May 22, 2010, 07:02:14 AM
I had a Corbin seat on my ZX 14 and it as hard as a rock, they said it would soften...  Did the same with a lot of 1/2 holes drilled 1 inch apart in the area I sit.  It did help a lot.