CX500 Build - How To Make A Quality Cafe Racer Seat Pan - EP18 - ASMR

all right seat goes on and off I got the look the release mechanism set up and the legs made so this house goes on and off click it little tricky to rock back run out what's up then you go back in reverse order [Music] so now that we have the cowl I can get started on the seat pan here and if anybody's been following along to this point just kind of know what I've done with the seat mount or the seat release latch so I'm gonna actually have to have two lugs that extend into each of these holes here and I this is gonna be tricky but I need to make sure the seat can actually reach these lugs come up and out past the cowl it's not going to be a real straightforward design I'm gonna have to do a lot of bending of some material and it's gonna be pretty fab heavy but I'm hoping to make it work really in a clean matter in my initial plan I'm gonna have obviously a flat plate here for the for the pan it's gonna have a kick up and then from the back about right here I'm gonna have two legs extending out with a ninety degree Bend that attach in the actual lock right here and I'm hoping that once you release it the seat can flip up and rock back past past the Cal here and my front my front latch will be like out of there so I'm hoping I can make it all work actually I say I hope I can make it all work but I'm gonna make it all work so I don't know why I say that [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right so it's time to go ahead and lock in the front mount here and to do that I just cut a piece of 3/16 steel so this is going to fit right in here on the shock mount and I'll give it a bend to kind of like hook in that way that way the whole seat pan can lift out like that and it can have clearance to rock you know the front mount to rock itself out around there we'll see how it works I'll only tack this in place right now because I won't know if that works until we get the rear mount made so I know how the seats gonna come off the bike but that's what we're working on now and I'll probably just continue with the time-lapse on here [Music] all right so I've got some things to consider here are some tips for building a seat pan now if you're gonna go this far in you're gonna build a pan you want it to fit nice you're gonna take your time here so one thing to consider is whenever you build a seat pan and you then go to have it upholstered that material is gonna wrap around the seat pan itself so you need to account for that thickness now one thing I do is I find some cardboard or just like this is just some shipping foam I've set it down on the frame so the seat pan is actually spaced up the correct amount or an approximate amount of the material that it'll eventually be wrapped in and this is actually something that really helps your upholsterer or you know if you do it yourself it just helps make that job easier too because if you go ahead and make the time and you know make the effort to make sure it fits now then there's not going to have to be any adjustment after you get the seat upholstered so that's something you know you got to think ahead on this and so as you lift this up it's also gonna put a gap here so you know nothing special there now I have I'm gonna try to get this all in one shot here mounted the seat I've got it on my marks and I'm not gonna go you know full-blown on this I'm gonna lift the bike up here and show you how I go about mounting this my process here all right so I got a bike come back down now I'm gonna try to zoom you in here you can see the area have to work with I should've actually put this in first I have the seat pan in place it has the spacing on here and then the piece back here I'll lift it up I can slide it back and forth you can see that gap appearing so I'm gonna position that so it has just a little bit of gap and then whenever i weld it flat that'll pull the seat pan down so that'll put a little tension on here and that's what we want we don't want it to just be you know have any slack because that'll create maybe a vibration that you might hear so we create a little bit of tension and that locks a Sipan in place in a nice spot and then I've already I've already taken the time to kind of estimate how far back it goes to work with about how much curve I have left here so as the seat comes up it only has to come back just a little bit before it releases which is good because then once it comes back we can lift the whole seat up hopefully that makes sense all right got the front mount just tacked in just two places to keep it steady I also trimmed the gaps on either side here just a little bit but you use two hands slots in and then I've kept my marks on my frame here just so I know where the seat pan is gonna be square so I'm gonna go ahead and tape the seat pan down to the frame and then we'll all pull the cowl off and then I'll start working on the rear mount here alright so we've got the rear cowl off and I want to go ahead and start making these mounts in the back and this seems silly but if it makes sense I guess you know if it works it works this is actually just a regular old hitch pin we're gonna mimic this almost exactly so if you look at it from the side the holes right down there so if that's sitting in there like that you've got almost a good 90-degree surface to weld to the back of the pan and I want to do it like that because you have to think if we're gonna go ahead and release the rear of the seat it's gonna come up and then we'll be able to move it back and then release the front and then from there we can kind of take it off so this needs to actually kind of kick out like that and I might actually Ben Bend the piece I need to make lower closer to 90 and we should be able to make it work but good inspiration for this little guy right here so blue use this as like a guide get close to this and see how it works or they're so strong it's like Chuck is a cute looking like cuddly but they're not [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right little heating little bending and we got a couple pieces here now like I said they're bent a little bit further than the the receiver pin there so after those things cool off I'm going to go ahead and come over here and start trimming them for the actual hole in the release mechanism because there's a pin that I have to cut a groove for so think of it like what an axe mark looks like into a tree you can ready to cut down so we're gonna cut a little wedge out of that and then trim the length and then just start working on working on getting it mounted but another thing I'm considering since the seat pan is a little you know it's just it's 14 gauge it's not like really thick material I might cut another plate just have a reinforcement plate for the to weld back here to keep this solid and then weld those pieces to that and I might even drill a hole and extend those things through so I can weld on both sides so I don't know we'll figure it out though [Music] okay so you can see inside here you have the release mechanism so if you look here I've got a mark drawn I've measured the height of where that's gonna have to clip in so next up I'm just gonna go ahead and notch these out and then that should sit in there and kind of clip and not reminisce all right I'm getting ready to weld this in so I've got my posts adjusted here and they I extend them fully up to the lock and then they just barely touch the seat pan so it doesn't move so I'm gonna go ahead and lock these things in place tack them down and then I'm going to actually tack or weld the washer to this is like a stopper and I'm gonna try to keep some tension on that so I'm not gonna you know I'm not gonna put like a rubber bushing underneath it even though I probably should I just think a solid stopper is gonna be fine in this didn't in this instance so alright it goes on and off so show you it's a little tricky but I think with a little a little bit more adjustment it'll be fine so click it up slide it back pull it back there rock it forward and it's out so it seems like a decent system so slide it rear in drop the front down back lock on it and drop that down there it is cool so I'm gonna go ahead and continue with just grinding this down here and then I'll work on clearancing the fiberglass too to make sure I have the clearance there to get the to get the legs out and then I'll end up boxing just doing a plate here to box that that little knob on well those solid and then I am gonna build a reinforcement plate right here just to mimic this curve and it'll just be you know to reinforce where that's welded from the back and the bend here just to since it's going to be kind of supported from this piece I don't want the seat to kind of deform like that so we're gonna you know build all those pieces in they'll be just simple little brackets I probably won't show much of that you'll you'll understand what they're for though I'll show the end product though we're but I said he was [Music] if you told me five years ago you could just be like this that's not true when you know it's true and get away with it I would be like no but you can't as long as isn't enough people that have your guys do you know that make me super conservative network oh oh yes yes yes yes says evil all right oh that's my favorite news [Music] [Music] I'm already done with it you're mine all right so that does it for the seat pan hopefully you picked up some tips on this one and maybe some things to apply on yours but overall I think this thing came out really well and it doesn't use any real extravagant materials or anything like that it's something that a lot of people can can buy and work with so just you know use your brain work through the problems and you should be able to you know create a nice piece just like this so I hope you liked the video and I'll see you next time Thanks [Music] you

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Length: 19min 56sec (1196 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 23 2020