Great Tips about Custom Motorcycle Seats(Cafe Racer, Bobber, Scrambler, Brat)

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11 ай бұрын

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If you are a fan of custom motorcycles, like Cafe Racers, Bobbers, Scramblers or Brat, this video will be very interesting for you.
Designing a custom seat, may seem like an easy thing.
The truth is, it is easy to make what most people make, but it is hard to do it correctly.
On this episode, it is showing what the most successful seats for each style, explaining also what it works well, and what it does not not so well.
Essentially, here you can find very useful tips, that will help you with your custom motorcycle/custom project.
I hope you like it.
My special thanks to Pedro Torres, for his great help with my English.
Link about how to calculate the wright proportions on a cafe racer seat:
• Cafe Racer (How to cal...
List of most of the custom motorcycles shown on this video:
BMW R90 by CRD-Cafe Racer Dreams
TRIUMPH THRUXTON BY KINGSTON CUSTOMS
YAMAHA XS 650 BY OFICINA DAS MOTAS
1974 NORTON COMMANDO BY COLORADO NORTON WORKS
Moto Guzzi 1000 SP by Fuchs Workshop
Honda CBX 250 by Lucky Custom
Royal Enfield Hunter 350 By Eak K Speed Custom
Honda CB 750 by by Krisbiker Customs
BMW R80 by Bandit Garage
Triumph Thruxton 900 by Tamarit Motorcycles
BMW R80 by Earth Motorcycles
BMW K1100 RS by POWERBRICK
Yamaha Virago XV750 by DEVELiGENCE, LLC
Yamaha XV920 Virago by Moose MotoDesign
Honda CB750 by Lucky Custom
BMW R100 by Upcycle Garage
BMW R 1100 RT by Meeclassic Shop
Yamaha SR 400 by Zeus Custom
Honda TMX 125 by La Garahe Motorcycles
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@davidweidner1675 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Master class on custom seats

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your support. :) Cheers.

@tamusbaby 11 ай бұрын

beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not trends.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

I understand your perspective. But all my suggestions on this video, are from the perspective of being aesthetically pleasing, which some times is far from the current trent. Cheers.

@PierredeCur 5 ай бұрын

Sadly, the Starbucks-poseurs they call "café-racers" nowadays are all about trends and nothing about tradition, most notably, the trend to fit them with dangerous off-road knobby tyres or faux vintage Chinese tyres designed for tractors and utilities.

@WillysPerformanceCycleCtr 11 ай бұрын

Very good points on the custom seat! This is almost always the first thing to change on most motorcycles. You demonstrated a lot of excellent illustrations that are helpful. And, as always, thank you for Racer TV, the Café Racers only choice! Hope all is well and you’re enjoying some riding time! Ride safe my friend! Cheers:)

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for sharing your perspective. Yes, Frankenstein have been busy during the last 2 weeks. I ride it almost every day to go to work. You too dear friend. Thank you. :) Cheers.

@florianpinto9999 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for all of your advices!!!

@vaahbesh5475 11 ай бұрын

been following your videos specifically about cafe racer and loved each one of it

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your support. :) Cheers.

@colinlawrence2186 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing out some things i had really never considered in styling a custom seat Take care stay safe and may your God bless you always 🙋‍♂️🇬🇧🇺🇸

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for sharing your perspective. :) Cheers.

@Reverendos 11 ай бұрын

Once again, this has been a master class. All constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks for another great video. It helps us understand the wonderful world of cafe racer. So complex, so special, so own.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your kind comment. :) Cheers.

@kermitthefrog6363 11 ай бұрын

Thanks again my friend for another great video! Such simple little changes which can make a big difference to the look of the bike.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you liked my friend. :) Cheers.

@rsbharley4766 11 ай бұрын

Nice video Racer, lots of excellent points and great info. This one will getting people rethink their ideas. Hope all is going well, take care and ride safe. Cheers

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you liked my friend. Evrything is fine. Thanks. You too. :) Cheers.

@pablofranciscomelendeztole9725 11 ай бұрын

Como siempre disfrutando de estos maravillosos videos gracias racer tv saludos desde México.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your kind comment. :)Saludos

@therainforest4314 11 ай бұрын

It is so good to see you guys again. It's been a hectic few years, probably for everyone. Excellent video, by the way. :)

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your support. :) Cheers.

@onemaxlight 11 ай бұрын

i adore your channel, and i follow you. Love design and motorcycles but i never had a street bike (always kind of "enduro/travel" (from 125 to 1150). I appreciate the cure of the program, the transition you use to show people what a HUGE difference makes few cm.. following you,i was push last year to bought a R1150R 2002 and tryed to modify it a little bit to move trought cafè racer.. even if now seems i made few modifications, it need me many months and night hours to arrive to this point. i really would like to show you if was possibile. Greeting from ITaly, Max!! 😉

@andrewhall836 11 ай бұрын

As usual this is just another excellent video which has made me stop and rethink my ideas. I know what I want, but you have shown me why and how. I have been gifted a 1981 Kawasaki KH750 4 ... a real "Barn Find" stored outside (under cover for 12 years). I'm putting some of my knowledge into converting it to a Café Racer style build. You give me the advice, ideas and inspiration to making it all become a reality ... well ... one day!!! Thank you Racer TV!

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your kind comment. I am very glad this video was helpfull to you. :) Cheers.

@RobertoSaison 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insights and wisdom on this video. So much learning all through out in this channel,.so timely that im doing a custom seat on may kawasaki hd3 2stroke. Kudos Sir God bless From the Philippines.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your kind comment. :) Cheers.

@dane4890 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic video as always!

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your support. :) Cheers.

@uroshavalon 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. The harmony among elements of design is very hard to achieve, even doing a perfect CAD presentation in real life material, composition of materials and forms is starting to show you compatibility when the seat, end tail or whichever component is we are doing is mounted on a modified bike. The slight tone changes in materials used can do so so much too. Final harmony which brings that beauty we seek needs very very long and complex process. As in a last video, the 8 day modification project is super but looks unfinished.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for sharing your perspective. :) Cheers.

@makj44 10 ай бұрын

Pretendo mudar o banco da minha RE Interceptor bem como a pintura inferior, pois ela é uma Baker Express!! Já vi uma customizada na França que ficou linda com detalhes em dourado e motor com tampas laterais pretas. Parabéns pelo canal e muito sucesso para você!!! abraço do Brasil!!!

@thenefyncat6970 11 ай бұрын

It's got to be a good day when a new RacerTV appears.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Lool. Thank you my friend for your kind comment. :) Cheers.

@markblundell9461 11 ай бұрын

Subtle changes can mean a lot to any project. For me personally, the frame is always the starting point. And on some projects I have made 2 seat options for the one machine.

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for sharing your perspective. Yes, I think i already mentioned in the past the 2 seats option. Definitely one of the smartest choices for those who need a 2 seater, but love the Cafe racer style. :) Cheers.

@eu436 11 ай бұрын

agora que vocÊ falou sobre essa inclinação no final da espuma do acento brat style, pra mim faz TOTAL sentido

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Obrigado amigo por partilhar a sua opinião. :) Um abraço.

@scrambler13666 11 ай бұрын

Супер обзор🤩👍

@Concionator 11 ай бұрын

6:22 😯👍

@adlervonschlesien4869 11 ай бұрын

Well... it's a matter of taste, and there's no arguing about taste

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Indeed. But there are certain details that really makes the difference. :) Cheers.

@chriscarbaugh3936 11 ай бұрын

Been struggling w seats for my Spees Twin on my third, very expensive custom seat; looks great, but is uncomfortable 🥲

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for sharing your perspective. :) Cheers.

@aimanlop 11 ай бұрын

In my opinion when building bike every bike i make first was a frame and then tank after that seat

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

I understand. But to change the frame, first you probablyt have to difine what kind of seat and dimentions. Am i right? :) Cheers.

@PierredeCur 5 ай бұрын

You're right if you're building from scratch or asembling (although the engine comes before or with the frame, as in Tritons and such), but, if you're transforming, tyres were always what came first, as stock tyres were usually 💩 for racing in the days and tyres is the one factor whose change can bring more gain with the least inversion. :-)

@carlosgooglemaps94 11 ай бұрын

Particularly I don't like (hate), the brat (no style) seat one meter long "ironing table", if you want to ride with your girlfriend and her mother, then a car suits you better!! I am sick and tired of people saying "I build a cafe racer" and the bike looks like anything but cafe racer!!! Cool video Victor, regards!!😅

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Carlos or sharing your opinion. Yes, i completely understand what you said. There are a lot of people who call cafe racer to any style of custom/ neo classic bike. I hope this video may teach the essential to some. :) Cheers.

@carlosgooglemaps94 11 ай бұрын

@@RACER_TV you are doing a great job with this channel, towards to the real cafe racers lovers, thank you Victor!!

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

@carlosgooglemaps94 Thank you my friend for your kind words. Cheers

@user-wg6xc2qi5s 11 ай бұрын

I don't like the bobber style with no comfort a open rear wheel is crazy on some bikes

@user-cc2iz6jp3m 11 ай бұрын

Sir how can I contact you to send my cafe racer motorcycle pictures build from royal enfiled thunderbird. Waiting for you reply

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Hi. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for me answering all messages. But try to send me 1 or 2 photos with a private message on Racer TV's Facebook Page. (There is a link on the Channel's main page.) I will try to answer you. Thank you my friend for your support. Cheers.

@user-cc2iz6jp3m 11 ай бұрын

Thanks alot

@user-wg6xc2qi5s 11 ай бұрын

Isn't the most important thing is comfort my look cool but no good for along trip where you have to stop every half an hour to stretch take so much longer

@asadshahid7740 11 ай бұрын

Will you modify the bike as I say,

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

As I said during the video, everything i said are just suggestions to help other enthusiasts. Cheers.

@PierredeCur 5 ай бұрын

I have *lived* the times of the real café-racers and riding and making café-racers all my long life and, sorry, but it's wrong in so many things. To begin with your first affirmation that the first thing that is changed on a café-racer is the seat when it was the *tyres*: to substitute the usual 💩 stock tyres (like Yokohama on classic Japanese bikes) with decent ones with acceptable grip and stability (like Dunlop K81 and later Michelin PZ2 and PZ4). And surely no café-racer has been fitted with unstable off-road knobby tyres with poor grip on the road or the 💩 faux vintage Chinese tyres seemingly made for tractors that are so fashionable among hipsters. :-) Seats came later, third after the tyres and the handlebars for lowered ones, and it was mainly to reduce the height of the seat. Also, remember the function of café-racers expressed in their name - made to race between cafés - and uncompromisingly so. *Everything* was sacrified to speed and efficiency in the twisties. That includes aesthetics that were *always* sacrificed to speed, stability, handling, and braking. A lot of my café-racers were quite ugly for this reason, but nobody was able to beat them in their task and function: beat the buddies at the café. :-) That's why nowadays I have to change very little to make a current stock bike like my Duke 890 R and my previous 690 perfect café-racers, because they already have outstanding tyres, brakes, engine, suspensions, seat, controls and so on. :-) Still riding like a hurricane at 71 😀

@RACER_TV 5 ай бұрын

@PierredeCur Dear Sir, Thank you for sharing your perspective. I just wanted to clarify that everything said in this video, is related to the current transformations of cafe racers, which is why current priorities, are completely different from those of the 60s. But I understand your point. The cafe racer performance, might been very important in the 50's and 60's. But nowadays, I don't see the cafe racer performance as an important feature. And why? If we really want a fast bike, we just need to buy a Yamaha R1. And this means that this rebirth of the "cafe racer" scene, must have a different approach. :) I hope you understand my point. :) Thank you. And congratulations on continuing your passion for motorcycles. It's something very inspiring. :) Cheers.

@PierredeCur 5 ай бұрын

@RACER_TV that's my point: the things that you make nowadays and call "café-racers" are *not* real café-racers like in the days, but at most Starbucks-poseurs, not made to race between cafés, but to pose st the local Starbucks. That is, if you even ride that far, because many are just bibelots to decorate some hipster's living room. :-( We who have lived the times of real café-racers are dying out of age, so in thet future, nobody will know what real café-racers were and will believe that today's hipster contraptions were the thing when they are actually the opposite in spirit. I find that sad... 😞 Performance is the point of a real café-racer. That's why my Duke is much more café-racer than anything you can made. And it's good, as I just have to change a very few detailds to make it perfect. And I don't need to make it so ugly as I made so many café-racers in search for speed and stability in twisties. :-) An example: the ugly empty space under the seat that's so fashionable among today's faux "café-racers". Some, few, of the café-racers of tje days has it because it's where the battery and the air filter were located and so that empty space was a consequence of removing the battery and changing the air filter for velocity stacks. However, removing the battery was only possible if the bike had a magneto and a kick starter, and I doubt very much that modern café-racers have that. So, if you remove the battery from under the seat, a good low and centred position, you have to move it higher, like under the back of the seat which worsen the position of the centre of gravity, something you would never will in a real café-racer. And the 💩 tyres with 💩 grip and 💩 stability compared to any today's sport tyre is a heresy, a blasfemy to the real café-racer spirit, that's 100% sure...

@wibblywobblyidiotvision 11 ай бұрын

Not sure I agree with all your points, but it's an interesting video nonetheless. 7:33 is going to do radical gender reassignment surgery the first time the rider has to really hammer the brakes o_O

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Loool. Thank you my friend for sharing your opinion. :) Cheers.

@441rider 11 ай бұрын

@@RACER_TV Leather skinned solo seats are just fashion in the vintage days the solo saddle seats were padded and sprung double or single. Worked on a ton of bobbers trailer bikes and those guys cannot handle 200km in the seat often but use them to bar hop mostly and pose or vogue out LOL!

@be-veo 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact : this guys who spoke up didn’t have any cafe racer, so he can talk to much like an expert 😂😂

@RACER_TV 11 ай бұрын

Loool. Important Fact: You are new in this Channel, and don't know the guy that talk to much like an expert. :) Cheers.

@PierredeCur 5 ай бұрын

I don't know if he owns one, but he clearly has not lived or known the times of real café-racers as his concept is very far away from what it was in the days...