GS850L seat de-hump before and after

[Guest]

I've always disliked the seat on my L and after searching the forum, it seems that I'm not alone. There are plenty of threads asking about flattening the L seat, but not too many photos of modified seats.

I picked up an extra seat on ebay that had a rusted pan, so I had a foam core to carve up. A kitchen bread knife and some 80 grit sand paper did the trick.

A local upholstery shop sewed and installed vinyl cover, which came out nicely in my opinion. I can actually sit a little farther back on the bike now (I'm 6'4"). Glad I worked through this one.

Photos link to larger versions

Before:


Foam before/after:




After:

[harley10]

Seriously that looks awesome , what a difference . Brian

[Gold01ca]

Turned out awesome!
Thanks for sharing this and the great pics.

[Chris G]

Nice improvement.

[Steve]

One more vote.

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[Wingsconsin]

looks really good ....
I can tell already there are some seat mods in my future...

[Caferacernoc]

Thumbs up!

[850GT_Rider]

Good job! You made an "L" seat look just like a "non-L" seat....and it's more comfortable. Imagine that

[Notz]

With those bars and that seat mod, I would guess that even Tkent might give this L a thumbs up!

Well Done!

[csw55]

Nice job! that looks awesome!

[tkent02]

With those bars and that seat mod, I would guess that even Tkent might give this L a thumbs up!

Well Done!

I did yesterday, guess I forgot to hit send or something. Nice DeLification!

[salty_monk]

Thumbs up here too

[gert du prez]

This is indeed a very fine job, sir !

Will be copying it fully (without any shame )

[turbojohnny]

this is great! I'm looking to do something like this for the seat on my gs650gl
also jsnmrs, how do you like the exhaust on your bike?

[Buffalo Bill]

I figured that was possible, good results!