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Since 2005 I have had a 2004 Kawasaki Z750 shared with my wife (Also lowered and seat shaven). Now we wanted another bike, and a upgrade. So we bought a GSX S1000 last week. The only trouble is, my wife forgot to grow tall. She is 164cm, around 5ft4. She got the test drive done at the dealers, my heart was up my throat, but i went ok
Now a brand new GSX S1000, me not really wanting to lower it, so we started with daytona ladystar boots (gives around 2cm in front and 8 cm in the back) It helps, but she still only able to touch the ground with the toes.
The bike has now run a total of 230 km. So lets rip the seat apart and attack with a breadknife
The wife wanted to do the cutting and shaving, and as she is gifted ind crafting and so on, I think that was a good idea
It is actually not a big job.
1. Unmount rear seat
2. Remove 5mm hex bolt holding front seat
3. Remove front seat
4. Pry out stables holding the seat cover in place. (around 50 pieces.) I used a small flat headed screwdriver, pried up one side. Then pulled the stable out with a flat nosed plier
5. Remove seat cover
6. Give the seat to the wife
6.a Mark the area that has to be shaven down
6.b Cut of exsessive foam with bread knife
6.c Sand down the cut area (80 grit sandpaper)
7. Remount the seat cover
8. Stable seatcover, here you need to be sure it is streched out.
9. In reverse do step 3 to 1.
All in all we only got around to step 8. As our stablegun was to weak.
UPDATE:
Bought a more powerfull stablegun.
It took around half an hour to reattach the seat cover. It was quite a bit to large now. Around 2cm in each side. I took some stretching to get rid of all the wrinkels. I started by loosly mounting the cover. The shape kept it on in fornt and back. Then i pulled quite much in the sides in the middel, to get the cover down to the foam. There is a picture where i clammed the cover down with 2 small vices to check the progress. From there it was quite easy. The end result is quite good, in my humble opinion.
The best part is that combined with the Daytona Ladystar GTX boots, my wife has a quite good footrest. The front part of her foot solid on the ground. So far no need for further lowering.
I have attached a lot of pictures of the proces. Hopefully it will help.
Regards Tommy & Louise
Since 2005 I have had a 2004 Kawasaki Z750 shared with my wife (Also lowered and seat shaven). Now we wanted another bike, and a upgrade. So we bought a GSX S1000 last week. The only trouble is, my wife forgot to grow tall. She is 164cm, around 5ft4. She got the test drive done at the dealers, my heart was up my throat, but i went ok
Now a brand new GSX S1000, me not really wanting to lower it, so we started with daytona ladystar boots (gives around 2cm in front and 8 cm in the back) It helps, but she still only able to touch the ground with the toes.
The bike has now run a total of 230 km. So lets rip the seat apart and attack with a breadknife
The wife wanted to do the cutting and shaving, and as she is gifted ind crafting and so on, I think that was a good idea
It is actually not a big job.
1. Unmount rear seat
2. Remove 5mm hex bolt holding front seat
3. Remove front seat
4. Pry out stables holding the seat cover in place. (around 50 pieces.) I used a small flat headed screwdriver, pried up one side. Then pulled the stable out with a flat nosed plier
5. Remove seat cover
6. Give the seat to the wife
6.a Mark the area that has to be shaven down
6.b Cut of exsessive foam with bread knife
6.c Sand down the cut area (80 grit sandpaper)
7. Remount the seat cover
8. Stable seatcover, here you need to be sure it is streched out.
9. In reverse do step 3 to 1.
All in all we only got around to step 8. As our stablegun was to weak.
UPDATE:
Bought a more powerfull stablegun.
It took around half an hour to reattach the seat cover. It was quite a bit to large now. Around 2cm in each side. I took some stretching to get rid of all the wrinkels. I started by loosly mounting the cover. The shape kept it on in fornt and back. Then i pulled quite much in the sides in the middel, to get the cover down to the foam. There is a picture where i clammed the cover down with 2 small vices to check the progress. From there it was quite easy. The end result is quite good, in my humble opinion.
The best part is that combined with the Daytona Ladystar GTX boots, my wife has a quite good footrest. The front part of her foot solid on the ground. So far no need for further lowering.
I have attached a lot of pictures of the proces. Hopefully it will help.
Regards Tommy & Louise
