Seat trims - help needed

wombat200 · Post by **wombat200** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:49 pm

Hi All,

A while back I had an incident in which alot of my Dream stuff was stolen by a guy who had promised to do work - short version of this story is that he relocated himself 2000km away, took my stuff & my cash & never trumped up with the work.

Anyways, almost a year later, I managed to retrieve most of my stuff. The guy was supposed to recover two seats for me - I got the seats back in their original state, minus the covers & the stainless mouldings around the base.

Does anyone have one or two of these trims they would be prepared to sell me & ship to Melbourne, Australia? I'm commencing on two dream rebuilds shortly & will need the trims to complete.

If anyone can help, I'de be most appreciative.

Regards,

Rob.

busaken · Post by **busaken** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:07 pm

rob what i used is chrome trim from the autoparts store with double side tape attached to the trim. looks the same as the oem but instead of being fasten on with screws i used the doublesided tape which sticks quite well.

wombat200 · Post by **wombat200** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:16 pm

Hmmmm, I've looked at that stuff, but I'm not all that confident it will hold on in regular use...

At least one of these bikes is being equipped with electronic ignition & I intend to use it regularly for commuting, etc, so the whole bike needs to be fairly robust....

Thanks,

Rob.

Tango911 · Post by **Tango911** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:03 am

it will hold for along time and its cheap.

also you can get a new cover for about 50 bucks on ebay.

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:55 am

Rob, welcome back. You've been conspicuous by your absence!

houseowax · Post by **houseowax** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:49 am

Rob, I've been on the lookout for that trim strip for about 5 months and I've yet to see one on offer without buying a whole seat attached to it. Even though I share your misgivings I might just bite the bullet and give the adhesive strip a try.
I contacted several of the seat cover dealers on eBay and not a single one of them sold just the chrome strip- one (can't remember which) said he looked into remanufacturing them and couldn't make the numbers work.

Every now and again I allow myself to dream of starting a business that manufactures CA and CB77 mufflers, JIS screws, CA77 carb covers and that @#%$! chrome seat trim.

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:11 am

Try emailing eBay's vintage_001. TC -- vintage_001@yahoo.com -- specialises in pattern seats.....with trims, so a new pattern seat (or just take off the trim -- the seats are quite cheap and reasonably-made) may suit your needs.