Seat pan material

Not Roadster but the Interpol was and they all crack at the mounts.
...of course that could be due to the size of Plods Posterior.
 
I have a Interpol seat, glass fibre and it was cracked at the mounting points. I re-glassed it and await the
return of the cracks!....but it is light as a feather even with a lot of additional glassing.
 
I recently repaired a friend's plastic fairing on a Fazer 600. I drilled a small,hole at the end of the crack, to stop it spreading. Then I cut some light metal mesh, into a strip the length of the crack in his fairing. About 1.5" wide. Then pressed it into the plastic, along the crack, on the inside of the fairing, with a flat head bolt tightened onto the tip of a hot soldering iron. The mesh stops it flexing and re-cracking. Just filled and repainted the outside. Seems to be holding up.

Don't know if it will stand up to the rigours of a seat pan, but maybe worth a try, with first a layer of glass fibre, then the mesh, then another couple of mat layers over the top?
 
Onder said:
I have a Interpol seat, glass fibre and it was cracked at the mounting points. I re-glassed it and await the
return of the cracks!....but it is light as a feather even with a lot of additional glassing.
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Same on the one I bought and repaired in the same way, but as using a Interstate with steel base and repositioned mounting tabs it never gets used.
 
Just back from an 85 mile round trip on the Commando. The Interplod seat really is comfy for me.
Works well with Interstate bars and rearsets. Warm enough to be enjoyable but cool enough so the bike runs well. 64F in the shade in my front garden. Season has begun so traffic is annoying but at least on a bike you can fly by most of it.
 
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