I picked my V-Star seat up out of a used bike/salvage yard here in MN. $150 like new. The mounting was easy and straight forward. Since I didn't want to give up the back seat, I took off the V-Star mounting tang on the back of the seat. I made a shallow square cornered bracket that fit between the seat mounting flanges on the frame, after I bent them into a verticle angle to the ground. I drilled a hole on each short leg of the bracket to bolt through for the frame flanges. Then I pop-riveted that to the seat pan with a liberal amount of an industrial adhesive. It took me three tries to get the correct size bracket. I had already raised the front of the stock seat about an inch after reading about it here so over all the seat's a bit higher than stock. I'm six feet tall and have about decided to give up the back seat so's I can move the front seat back a bit for the extra leg room. Hope this helps. I'm about to start working on the Harley tank soon so I can get pix if needed. Or I could do a quick drawing.

Salad_Shaker wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


I understand completely, it took my a bunch of tries before I figured out what I was doing wrong... not doing right.

You have to take your pictures from the camera to your computer, then upload them to a photo website (I use Snapfish, most others use a bike website somehwere), then at that point each picture has a URL I think, then you right click on the pic, go to properties, highlight the ENTIRE LONG address, right click that and hit the "copy" choice, then go to the Savage site & click on the picture box (4th from left on the 2nd row above the smiley faces), left click between the   2 [img] boxes, then right click in the same place and hit "paste"

I think that is what I do to get a pic on here.

Are we having fun yet?  

Salad_Shaker wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:

We all have our strengths and weaknesses.  I've been putting up with leaking oil for nearly two years 'cause I can't figure how to get to the silly plug.  If you can e-mail the pix to me I'll put them up.

I think the biggest comfort mod I did was forward controls.  If you access to a welder and a grinder you can do it.  Even tho they are VERY expensive (if you buy them  highway hawk I think) you will wonder how you ever rode ur bike without them.  I cant emphasize how good they feel.

I would also take Savage Rob's suggestion and look into a pillowtop gel seat.  Or make a gel insert from Lancers gel he sells.  The stock seat is TERRIBLE and literally a pain in the arse.

Oh and I almost forgot.  Try getting some new grips like kuryakyn grips.  They are awesome and take 99% of the vibration away.  They also sell kewl accesories like throttle boss (kinda like cruise control but u use the flat on your hand, eg the side, to rest your grip) and a helmet lock.

azjay: does the Spostster rider's seat fit with the Savage stock pillion pad in place?  Got my eye on an HD seat but am wondering about fixings and mountings.  Can you give us a steer on this?

I've got an idea...

I don't see any reason why you couldn't hook up an auxillary fuel tank with 1/4" line up to the vacuum port on the petc0ck if you've done the manual petc0ck conversion.  Thoughts?