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G5 Confy Seat Rear Mount Info Sought

Tonerjockey

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I am assembling a Police G5 and want to use a comfy tandem seat. The bike is a 1980 with the small round tailight. This doesn't have the more recent (newer?) wide tail light with the groovy bodywork.

I have the rear bracket that the seat bolts to but it seems a little wonky to me.
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There a hole in the bracket that looks like a bolt might be used to stabilize the whole schmere but there is not a coresponding hole in the fender. I am thinking that the fender is a police model and therfore no hole....

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I got the seat and bracket from separate folks on my friendly on-line acution house.


Anyone have a pic of the way Guzzi actually mounted that bracket to this fender/seat/tailight/bike combination? I would like to follow the leader here.

Alex
 
I believe those rear brackets are for a radio mount. The stock non police seat seat mounted in much the same manner as the 850-T through T-3. You need the chrome bracket that attached to the rear fender bolt and the shock mount. The seat then mounts to the chrome piece. Take a look at a T-3 or G5 parts manual. You should be able to find them here http://guzzitek.org/gb/cadres_gb.htm
 
Ahh yes! Very good John. Thanks. Looks like the same as an SP eh?

Back to the auction house for a T3-SP seat rail.

Muchas Arigato

Alex
 
Tonerjockey said:
Looks like the same as an SP eh?
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It is, and they are available at MG Cycles. The G-5 seat rail, you have, will work, it in the parts book as a seat bracket. The hole is there for a bolt through the fender to keep the bracket from rotating while lifting the seat. The the G-5 seat rail bolts to the tabs on the sides of the bracket.

The chrome SP rail bolts up at the shock post preventing rotation. I checked all my tonti rear fenders, none of them had a hole in that spot. I'd use the G-5 parts to keep the G-5 look.
 
Hey Rafael,

Thanks for the infos.

I was very hesitant to drill a hole thru a perfectly good... and, almost NOS, fender to mount the tandem seat. Untill I caught this pic on our friendly on-line auction service:

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and:

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These show the "bolt" in place on a reportedly 1970's Guzzi.

The bracket is reversed from my 1st guess, the side tabs are lower than my bracket, and I don't recall a rear light lens like that on a Guzzi (not a Guzzi fender afterall?)... but what the heck?

If I can find a nice (cheap) grab rail that would obviate the necessity of screwing up a perfect fender, then I will not do the drilling thing. I am waiting for rings from MG Cycle... I'll make the final final decision on the seat mount after the engine is done.

Thanks again for the infos.

Alex
 
That tail light assembly looks like it came off a British bike. As for the seat bracket, It doesn't look like a Guzzi part either. The fender looks like a 70s Guzzi fender, but everything I don't believe to be a Guzzi part.
 
G5 Comfy Seat Rear Mount Info Sought

Hey H.Alex,

the bracket that you have is the correct seat fitting for the G5 and Convert that had that a late 70s early 80s plastic tailpiece. The two wee lugs held it in place and there was possibly another fixing into the superlarge tailight.Would have to dig deeper to see if that is true.

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Anyways you dont really want the mudguard ( fender to youse guys) stopping the assembly from rotating ,do ya? I needed someway of keeping the top box lower on my girlfriends G5 and therefore didn't need the grab bit of the rail.Thefirst pic shows where we started.With a saw. It looks a bit neater now with bungs from a chair in the end of the rails and a bit of a shine up. But a whole grab rail works just as well without the box.

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Regards
Min
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Yeah I wuz (that's were to youse'all) thinkin of making a simple brace. From shock top to the tab thingies. I like your solution!

Tanx,

Alex

BTW is it true that ya call a leprechaun that's had too much of that genius beer "one of the wee wee people?"

:huh:
 
Well here's what I wound up using.

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Friendly onbline auction house to the rescue...

It came painted black and sorta fits in.

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Man I gotta learn how to install freshly painted things onto freshly painted things W/O hacking it all up...

Alex
 
G5 Comfy Seat Rear Mount Info Sought

That is the way to go H.Alex. Her rail only got the chop due to the top box.
I rebuilt the front suspension on it ( with newly powdercoated legs) before Christmas and it now rides like it was supposed to instead of having the damping characteristics of a sponge.
The Pirhana Electronic box gave up around that time. I fault finded ( ? ) using my bike, siamesed to hers, wiring her unit into my pick ups. Yes, sometimes two G5's are better than one.

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Regards
Min
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