Seat is finished.
- Thread starter King Rat
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johnjacko
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The bike looks great, may I ask what pannier rails you have, I’m looking for some for my Xc , the Hepco Becker ones seem really expensive.
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They aren't available 'off the shelf'. I think Mickey at Overland & Classic made them, I'm not sure, but he built the bike in 2012 for an overland expeditioner. He did his trips then sold the bike to a chap who crashed it and it was written off. I bought the write off. The tank was scratched, the forks have some marks on the uppers - cosmetic marks where the headlamp bracket caught the right hand one, those two items alone would have been enough for the insurers to write it off, despite being perfectly servicable. A few other little dings and scratches. The indicators don't match, they are all LED ones, but the rear pair are one style and the front pair are a different type. I don't care, they flash when I turn them on and people know where I am going! I think the chap who crashed it was a bit sore about it being written off, he slagged it on here and warned everyone away from it - I went and looked and was more than happy to pay the asking price. I have serviced the forks and put new seals in, had the shock serviced with new seals and whatnots by SSR, a specialist suspension outfit the proprietor is cousin to a friend of mine, so it was a 'mate's rate' job. The Tony Archer seat had a nick in the cover but I didn't like the shape of it anyway, it pitched me forward too much, so I have had it reshaped and recovered by Tracey Dyke Upholstery.
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johnjacko
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Cheers for that, that seat looks comfortable
350 miles yesterday without any discomfort whatsoever. Nowhere in particular, just northwards, then westwards then home, to get used to the quirky handling of long forks and smaller front wheel. My word she can go!
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