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quick release seat?

#1 Post by LEEMAN » Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:38 am

I bought the bike with what is supposed to be a quick release seat - only its so fiddly it aint quick release at all. Im always losing the nuts in the body work cavity and swearing loudly at my ineffectual non dexterous fingers.

Seat comes with something like the following: but i think a more bastardised version....


http://www.123bp.net/shop/item.asp?itemid=90



I have no idea how the original seat was fixed to the bike but how do you all attach the seat to bike? and how easy is it to remove?
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#2 Post by FlyingKiwi » Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:51 am

Originally there were a couple of bolts
I replaced these for cap screws. Much easier sticking an allen key down there than a socket.
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#3 Post by Falco9 » Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:13 pm

FlyingKiwi wrote:Originally there were a couple of bolts
I replaced these for cap screws. Much easier sticking an allen key down there than a socket.
+1 I have done the same

Be careful not to cross thread them though, the retaining threads set into the frame rails are made of swiss cheese IMHO

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#4 Post by HowardQ » Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:42 pm

It's nice to still keep learning about your Falco, even after you've had it for 6 1/2 years.
My seat has allen key bolts, and I always thought they came as standard.
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#5 Post by LEEMAN » Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:46 pm

right, ill get me some of them cap screws then

thank you
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#6 Post by Falco9 » Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:27 pm

HowardQ wrote:It's nice to still keep learning about your Falco, even after you've had it for 6 1/2 years.

My seat has allen key bolts, and I always thought they came as standard.
My original 2001 Falco had normal hex head 10mm bolts but my new(er) 2004 bike has allen head bolts, maybe the previous owner swapped them over but they look like factory bolts to me

Wierd eh?

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#7 Post by fastasfcuk » Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:43 pm

as howard says, mine came with allen as well.
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Re: quick release seat?

#8 Post by D-Rider » Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:28 pm

LEEMAN wrote:I bought the bike with what is supposed to be a quick release seat - only its so fiddly it aint quick release at all. Im always losing the nuts in the body work cavity and swearing loudly at my ineffectual non dexterous fingers.

Seat comes with something like the following: but i think a more bastardised version....


http://www.123bp.net/shop/item.asp?itemid=90



I have no idea how the original seat was fixed to the bike but how do you all attach the seat to bike? and how easy is it to remove?
I've got these too - they're excellent.
..... but they work much better with a set of these as you don't loose the R-clips so easily.
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#9 Post by Willopotomas » Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:17 pm

Strange they used hex-heads.. Bet that's a right ball ache! Allen's do make more sense.. I too thought they were standard fit. Cheers for that little mod F9 :smt003
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#10 Post by Nooj » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:38 pm

I have the quick release pins from AF1. Piece of piss to use, but then I made sure they were set to the correct height and fixed in with some bad-ass threadlock.
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#11 Post by MartDude » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:49 am

Nooj wrote: bad-ass threadlock.
Diarrhoea treatment?
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#12 Post by Nooj » Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:59 pm

Yep. Sets like concrete :smt003
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#13 Post by D-Rider » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:26 pm

MartDude wrote:
Nooj wrote: bad-ass threadlock.
Diarrhoea treatment?
Nooj wrote:Yep. Sets like concrete :smt003
Theft deterrent too - honks so bad that nobody will go near the thing
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