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Message started by jbrough7 on 11/02/05 at 16:39:01

Title: Home Depot Savage
Post by jbrough7 on 11/02/05 at 16:39:01

Some of you wanted to see how I moved the seat up and back. I used a lot of home depot's bits and dabs, therefore, the title. Hope these shots show everything alright:

A work In Progress!
http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459368.jpg

You can see it's up about four inches and back about three. I have cut two pieces of rad cover to hide the ugly stuff while i figure out what to do:

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459369.jpg

Found two brackets in a sort of a 'z' shape and hammered them out to about what i wanted and joined them onto the tank bolts...pretty simple , yet effective

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459370.jpg

I put in a piece of 2X4 and mounted these brackets to it and screwed the seat from the bottom into small clips on the piece of 2X4.

Back seat wouldn't fit (And I lost it!) so I made another - note the beautiful stitchwork!

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459371.jpg

It looks alright but a bit amateurish. I really noticed the square corners look dumb when they're on the bike!

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459372.jpg

Love the name:

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459373.jpg

And one last shot of my barn just for the simple fact that suzisavage.com is having a barn dance here in the very near future!!

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/icon/suzuki-savage-88-bikepics-459374.jpg

I know a native lady that loves to sew and she's going to use the same black vinyl I did the passenger seat in to sew a kinda 'flap' around the opening between the seat and the tank....lots of beadwork on it and I figure
I'll be able to lift it up and slide my lunch in!

So I just basically scrounged around and found metal bits and banged on them till they fit. I had to have the 2X4 in there because the metal wasn't supporting my weight strong enough.