I brought this from Campfire Talk & renamed it.
Here's what I'm doing (should have done it years ago when I got the seat) to get my feet flatter on the ground. I canNOT be tippy-toed any more and keep riding.
Photo 1: This is the factory seat mount. It is not conducive to after market seat brackets. The main battery frame ground bolt limits how low I can weld the tube on and I can't see moving it and more welding. But.
Photo 2: This is how my seat bracket WAS mounted. It's pretty much the ONLY way it can go. You have to jam the nut with a screwdriver because the ground bung keeps a wrench out. It's just overall a PITA!
Photo 3: This is where the tube will be welded after it's cut loose from the angled piece. It can only go so low because of the ground bolt. Then I'll grind the mount at an angle from the tube back to suit where the seat wants to be.
The wires are easily protected from welding heat and the one wire going though the frame mount will be moved. I had previously taken the main harness out of there when I unwrapped the whole harness years ago.
The tank will be removed.
I'm still conSIDering cutting the whole thing off the frame, mounting the ground bung somewhere else and welding the tube directly to the frame. THAT would get me aNOTHER inch
I'm thinking how hard it would be on my hands to shape that piece of steel to the frame.
What think ye?