Looking for the best seat available for a Wideline

jimbo · Oct 25, 2014

Looking for the best seat available for a Wideline, who sells the best?

Rohan · Oct 25, 2014

Stock seat, or custom seat ?
Year ?

Leightons in the UK still make stock seats.
No guarantees it'll be the best for what you have in mind, however...

jimbo · Oct 25, 2014

sorry a stock seat

jimbo · Oct 26, 2014

I particularly like this one ,the vinyl has a better texture, and a better shape right behind the fuel tank that I'm looking for. I might have to recover a new one to get a seat that I'm fond of.

Looking for the best seat available for a Wideline

ashman · Oct 26, 2014

I run a Commando Innerstate seat on my Wideline just have to change the position of the brakets it fit perfect and is so much comfortable, I have a dual seat for when I have a passenger, but now I run a Innerstate seat with the hump at the back for sole riding as now my Norton has solo rego, you can ride all day with out any problems, I had one of those Featherbed seats as in that pic and found it to be to hard and uncomfortable.

Ashley

Bernhard · Oct 27, 2014

Watch out for some of those reproduced seats, they are filled with a hard expanded polystyrene and not a sponge, don’t ask me how I know

Triton Thrasher · Oct 27, 2014

Bernhard said:
Watch out for some of those reproduced seats, they are filled with a hard expanded polystyrene and not a sponge, don’t ask me how I know

I bought one like that. It was like sitting on a rocking horse.

I lifted the cover and cut plugs out of the foam with a hole saw. Looked like Swiss cheese. It was fine after that.

jimbo · Oct 27, 2014

Bernhard said:
Watch out for some of those reproduced seats, they are filled with a hard expanded polystyrene and not a sponge, don’t ask me how I know

What brand of seat has the hard foam? Does anybody know of the person that owns the 56 I found a photo of and posted? I would like to figure out what seat he has.

Triton Thrasher · Oct 27, 2014

jimbo said:
Bernhard said:

Watch out for some of those reproduced seats, they are filled with a hard expanded polystyrene and not a sponge, don’t ask me how I know

Click to expand...

What brand of seat has the hard foam? Does anybody know of the person that owns the 56 I found a photo of and posted? I would like to figure out what seat he has.

Sorry- I bought one and I can't remember where from. It was about 12 years ago.

jimbo · Oct 30, 2014

this seat I believe is an original that's why its shaped different than the repops. Anybody have an original for sale? :|

jimbo said:
I particularly like this one ,the vinyl has a better texture, and a better shape right behind the fuel tank that I'm looking for. I might have to recover a new one to get a seat that I'm fond of.

ashman · Oct 30, 2014

You proberly find thats a repo one as mine was the same shape, it was foam filled and was still very uncomfortable on the old bottom, thats one of the reasons I went with the innerstate seat and matches the tank good, I have the same tank on my Wideline as in that pic.

Have a look if the cover has been glued, there are many British bikes shops that sell them, I brought mine a long time ago and only used it once, didn't like it and sold it at a swap meet about 10 years later and got more for it than I brought it for so was all good.

Ashley

jimbo · Oct 31, 2014

It seems the repop seats do not have the shape ( and texture) as the original as shown in this repop seat photo . There is no distinct shaping at the front as the original seat has. The original seat flows its lines together with the lines and shape of the rear of the fuel tank.