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Technical => Bike Problems/Questions => Topic started by: guest288 on August 16, 2007, 02:38:31 PM

Title: XBR clip-ons
Post by: guest288 on August 16, 2007, 02:38:31 PM

Thanks for the help with the info, I've measured the fork tube diameter and it seems to be 35mm-
are there any other clip-ons that would fit the XBR? I'm after the look of the GB500, but maybe not quite so race prone. Also interested if there is a single seat conversion for the XBR. 

Thanks, Dave.

Title: Re: XBR clip-ons
Post by: Richard 003 on August 20, 2007, 09:12:18 AM

I don't know of a ready-made single seat conversion for the XBR, but I have seen it done, bespoke fashion. A local restorer got an upholsterer to re-foam the seats of a couple of his XBRs, to create a hump at the back, following the lines of the rear seat cover but coming up a little higher. Looked pretty good. I don't have pictures, unfortunately. If you draw what you want and take it to an upholsterer who does bike seats, it should cost you a lot less than an after-market seat, were one available.

If you could find one, you could probably bodge a GB500 seat on, but the longer XBR frame rails would poke out of the back ;-)