[HowTo] Ghetto pivotal seat

[band aid]

I was messing around with my seat’s guts today and thought of a way to make a ghetto pivotal seat. Some people may think that this is a really stupid idea, but I will write a how-to on what I did. First of all, just to warn you…your seat will be pretty flexable if you do this mod. Also you probably won't be able to re-convert it back to normal. Anyways...

Materials: Seat, Seatpost, Hacksaw, allen keys, a staple gun, a flathead screwdriver.

Step 1:
Get an ordinary seat [the kind with rails]

2: Now you will need your hacksaw.
Cut along the red lines shown here with teh hacksaw, so that you can remove the rails form your seat.


3. Now once you have cut along those lines you will need to pop the front part of the rails out of where you just cut, then pull the rails out of the back of the seat so they are removed.

4. Now you have your rails removed, you can get started.
4.5. you now are going to need these parts of the seatpost.


5. Place the seatpost itself on the seat [in the middle]
like this.


6. Now mark where the holes in the seatpost line up on the seat.
6.5. Now strip the cover off of your seat.

7. Drill out holes that are slightly larger than the bolts in the seat and through the foam where you marked.

8. your seat should now look like this.

except with no cover.

9. now you are going to need nuts to match with your bolts.

10. place the nuts on the top of the seat where you drilled the holes. glue them down. this is really key if you want it to work easily.

11. now you can recover the seat. By placing the cover back on and stapling it underneath. [ i didn't staple mine because i ran out of staples]

12. now you have your holes drilled and bolts installed, you will need to put this piece centered between the holes.


13. now you want to put the post over top of the little piece like this.


14. once that is done. you need to make sure the post's holes are aligned with the ones in the seat. now you can put the bolts in loosley.

15. now adjust the seat to the position you like, and tighten the bolts.

note: with my seat. the back of the post was touching the seat, and i added washers to the front bolt.

like this:

16. now you can install the seat on your bike.
and it will look like this. [my seat is a shadow slim sltripped and then thin padded]




now many people will say this sucks and is a bad idea for [who know's what] reasons.
but it worked for me and if you follow my instructions carefully it should all work out.

feel free to criticize and compliment.

[KoolAidGuy]

pretty cool but i wouldnt do it

[band aid]

i just did it because i am low on cash and i wanted a pivotal seat so i made a homemade one!

[Gtking80]

good idea!

[hoffmankevin101]

would it work with a chunky seat...like a primo baLANCE.

[band aid]

thanks!
gtking80

there is probably some better ways to improve on my design but it is a good start i think.

and it should work with any seat, you just might need to play around with different bolt lengths or something.

[gtbmx0222]

damn thats a cool idea!
now all you need to do is do the wedge mod and youll have a totally ghetto seat!

[Coldow91]

Awesome!! I think I am going to do this to my haro seat to see if it works well for me. Then do it to a seat that will look good.

[band aid]

damn thats a cool idea!
now all you need to do is do the wedge mod and youll have a totally ghetto seat!

you couldn't do a wedge mod with this setup because of the way it works.
although if you were to drill a hole in the pivotal peice and drill a hole in the seat. then you would be able to drop a bolt down into the seatpost, that is if there was no i-beam*.
DAMN!

*i-beam
a seatpost with a beam through the middle
ex.

[Coldow91]

What seat post did you use?