seat's sorted!

I was looking at my seat as I fitted the painted front bracket. The fact that the distance between the mounting holes on the underside of the seat and the ones on the frame bracket didn't match up was giving me headaches.

My answer was to fabricate a bar which would bolt on the the two posts on the frame bracket and then have two holes in that which the springs would screw into. My dilemma was that the top of the posts are angled to take the springs which come off the seat at an angle. I couldn't see any easy way to do this as the bolts would need to go through the bar at an angle too, or else the tension, when I torqued up the spring bolts would be trying to twist the bar. I just couldn't be sure that the whole thing would be strong enough to take the stresses and for a seat I'd hate to have the worry that it could come apart at any time.

The answer was staring me in the face and only became apparent when I was playing with the front bracket and screwed that on to one of the rear mounting posts.

All I need is a bar which I will screw on the the base of the seat. This will have holes in it to line up with the top end of the springs and I'll use a lock nut to attach the springs to the bar.

I've ordered a stainless bar as I don't really think an alloy one will be strong enough, especially as I don't want it too bulky.

Sometimes the right answer just takes a bit of waiting for.

Now I don't need to use the chrome springs I can go back to the coiled, black ones. Although, I have got my eye on a pair of 2" black scissor ones which are left and right sided and should look even better.