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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? 10/01/13 at 11:24:01 Anybody know?
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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #1 - 10/01/13 at 12:27:12 Don't know that anyone has tried that conversion yet. Would have to compare seat pans to determine just how much work it would take to get it to fit, but anything fits with enough creative juices flowing If it's not going to set you back much, give it a try and let us see how it turns out...
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Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage?
Reply #2 - 10/01/13 at 12:57:47

Not easily. I have a thin solo seat on mine for now. Need to work up the ambition to heat my Vulcan 800A seat up so the pan will sag and allow the pillion to bolt to the Harley rear fender. Then make a couple very simple tabs to secure the seat nose to the stock mounting loop, rear of the pillion to the fender, and hopefully the central pan to the frame...

And then take back my Honda passenger pegs, black out the mounts and get them installed permanently (welder).

The thin solo looks tolerable enough, and the 2 up seat will make the gas tank look punier than it does already... so then will need to source an appropriately sized gas tank... My battle with the Savage and its less than stellar frame design is ongoing. Really need to order the weld on hard tail, excise the square frame backbone and weld in a nice round one with a decent amount of stretch.

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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #3 - 10/02/13 at 01:36:26 Harley Davidson Sportster seat, would that fit? Is a one piece S40 seat more comfortable for a passenger?
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Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage?
Reply #4 - 10/02/13 at 07:57:25

Certain Sportster seats have been made to fit with minimal modifications...look here:

sportster seat mod
Seat lift

I've never ridden b!tch on my own bike, but the single seat looks to be about the same width dimensions as the 2 piece so I doubt it would be much different. If you only occasionally have a passenger, maybe the http://www.buttybuddy.com/ would work.

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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #5 - 10/04/13 at 07:12:27 Yep, the Mean Streak seat can be used. But is worse then the Savage seat for the passenger. But very comfortable for the driver. So I will put on the Sporster seat.
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diamond jim Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1425 North Alabama Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #6 - 10/04/13 at 08:26:48 Last summer, on my Mean Streak, I did a conversion to a Vulcan 1500 Classic 2 piece seat. I mention this because if a Mean Streak seat can indeed be fit to a LS650, then maybe other seats that can fit be easily fitted to a Mean Steak could also work.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #7 - 10/04/13 at 08:40:46 I put a Mean Streak on my stock seat when a girl on a cell phone pulled out in front of me,,
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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #8 - 10/04/13 at 10:56:41 Mean Streak
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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #9 - 10/07/13 at 02:17:49 Two ways of fitting the Sporster seat, forward and backward. First way the rectifier are clear, second way the seat rides on it. Forward and the hole from back light fits, but seat is not nice at tank. Second way fits nicer but need more labor Can the rectifier go to much hot if its close to the seat?
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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Q, would a Mean streak seat fit a Savage? Reply #10 - 10/13/13 at 05:50:31 Been riding some miles and the improvement was worth the labor. The forward control is more comfortable now, I could move the handlebar also forward without feeling like a monkey. Had to soften the rear spring, the Sporster seat is stiffer then the Suzuki. But the Menstreak seat had follow the frame better
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