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Anybody need a rear seat platform

bigtex

bigtex

Cruisin' Guzzisti
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Northern Colorado, USA
Hey guys,

Now that I am out of the Stelvio fold, I have some stuff laying around the garage that needs to get out of here.

Back in the day I did an Iron Butt ride and added an auxiliary tank for fun. I made up a plate that replaced the rear seat, latching on to the stock seat mounts and providing a platform for the tank.

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The Stelvio is gone and the tank parts have been re-purposed, but I still have the seat platform, a piece of garage engineering that worked amazingly well.

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So, anybody need a platform for luggage or a gas tank or a case of Nitro Milk Stout or ...? Pay the postage and it's yours.
 
Platform is claimed, thanks! I may have a couple of other left overs in the garage - anybody want the high front fender? I do have the tank bag and a couple of other items on Ebay right now.
 
Bigtex, I was recently brain-storming about making one of those! Is that aluminum or steel? My idea was to have the plate like you have then a rack on top of that for tieing gear to - similar to what they used to make for the Bimmer GS. Thanks for the additional inspiration.
 
Platform is actually a high-tech plastic polymer, otherwise known as a thick cutting board I picked up at a local bed & bath place :D

Very stiff, easy to machine, and the bend was surprisingly easy with a table edge and a propane torch.
 
Auction ended last night. I guess I really should have hyped the auction here - not much of a businessman, no wonder I'm always broke.

I do have the stock plastic bash plate if anyone would like it.
 
Tex..

Brilliant idea using the plastic. I hadn't thought to use cutting board plastic for fabrication but I did use a rubber door mat for padding on an arm rest. I wanted firm, not foam.

Vivo
 
Hey Big Tex! I just put 2 & 2 together and figured out you are the guy I bought the tank bag from! It's awesome ... thank you so much. It was the high fender comment that made the light bulb go on!

I was just going on the forum to see if there was a conversation about how to mount the tank bag. I get the back part, that's easy & the same as the Famsa that I will be selling. How exactly does the front strap go? I put it on this evening but the front seems a little unstable. Does anyone have a photo I can check out?

Do you still have the high fender? I think it looks great on the Stelvio!

Robert
 
woul like to fit the rear seat platform on my NTX 2009.
pls advise what's the pay for postage.
thx
JKNTX
Joost Kruiswijk
Netherlands
 
would you send me the nice 3 D drawing??

I would very much appreciate;
plse mail send a personal message

thx
Joost
 
Sorry, haven't been frequenting this forum.

Joost, I did pass on the platform to our very own leader Todd. Even sadder to say, I lost the CAD info due to some very poor backup work and a laptop change.

Robert, I'm sure you have it figured out by now, but the front straps just make a loop around the frame, just behind the head if I remember correctly.
 
bigtex said:
Sorry, haven't been frequenting this forum.

Joost, I did pass on the platform to our very own leader Todd. Even sadder to say, I lost the CAD info due to some very poor backup work and a laptop change.

Robert, I'm sure you have it figured out by now, but the front straps just make a loop around the frame, just behind the head if I remember correctly.
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Thanks bigtex, yea I think I have it on there pretty good. Can't say it's gonna hold all that much but it sure looks good!
 
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