Want to Buy WANTED Rider’s back rest.

[MrBaldylocks]

 

[Bigjaype]

So whom should one kill to get a rider backrest, that seems to be the question.

I hunted high and low until I finally made my own.

Rider’s Backrest - Alternative

So, the impossible to get riders backrest has prompted me to make my own...have to say I’m pleased with the result. I bought a universal backrest and discarded the seat/fender mounting hardware. I bought some 50x50 aluminium solid square and had it machined as per the pics. I no longer have the...

www.r3owners.net

 

[Ishrub]

Me neither, that last seat that Ishrub put up is the one I have so that’s the rest I want.

The good news is that in my opinion you have the best factory Triumph R3 Std/Classic/Roadster seat ever made...with or without the backrest. There a heaps better custom/aftermarket ones though of course.
The bad news is I am selling my NOS Rider's backrest in the USA with the NOS Dual seat.

I hunted high and low until I finally made my own.

Rider’s Backrest - Alternative

So, the impossible to get riders backrest has prompted me to make my own...have to say I’m pleased with the result. I bought a universal backrest and discarded the seat/fender mounting hardware. I bought some 50x50 aluminium solid square and had it machined as per the pics. I no longer have the...

www.r3owners.net

@Jason Jurgens I have passed on your design and wonderful drawings to many over the past year or so. Much flasher than my homemade versions and probably feasible in wood too with a sheet outer metal skin/shim to support coach screw fixings /through bolts and prevent the wood block splitting with side loads of leaning on riders backrest. That would make it the cheapest and easiest home made version I can imagine. No fancy tools required at all.
Yes, I have made and tried the wood block and other steel post versions and came to that conclusion.
As they say there are many ways to skin a cat but I highly recommend killing it first!
You could also use suitable M4 (4MM) and M6 (6mm) bolts right through the metal skinned wood block with nuts washers on the topside. As stronger if through both metal skinned sides of the wood block and they do not have a M4 Coach screw.
Smallest I could find was just M6 (6MM) GALVANISED HEX COACH SCREWS LOW TENSILE CLASS 4.6

 

[Kevin frazier]

The good news is that in my opinion you have the best factory Triumph R3 Std/Classic/Roadster seat ever made...with or without the backrest. There a heaps better custom/aftermarket ones though of course.
The bad news is I am selling my NOS Rider's backrest in the USA with the NOS Dual seat.


@Jason Jurgens I have passed on your design and wonderful drawings to many over the past year or so. Much flasher than my homemade versions and probably feasible in wood too with a sheet outer metal skin/shim to support coach screw fixings /through bolts and prevent the wood block splitting with side loads of leaning on riders backrest. That would make it the cheapest and easiest home made version I can imagine. No fancy tools required at all.
Yes, I have made and tried the wood block and other steel post versions and came to that conclusion.
As they say there are many ways to skin a cat but I highly recommend killing it first!
You could also use suitable M4 (4MM) and M6 (6mm) bolts right through the metal skinned wood block with nuts washers on the topside. As stronger if through both metal skinned sides of the wood block and they do not have a M4 Coach screw.
Smallest I could find was just M6 (6MM) GALVANISED HEX COACH SCREWS LOW TENSILE CLASS 4.6

PETA has been notified!

 

[Ishrub]

PETA has been notified!

Its OK, being a trained keyhole surgeon I used Shroedingers cat, nobody saw nuthin' and it is still there in it's box shivering and wondering "why am I feeling cold If I'm dead?" ..

 

[MrBaldylocks]

Afternoon everyone
Well I’ve finally found the Holy Grail, Genuine Triumph Backrest.
Patience is a virtue after all.

 

[Bigjaype]

Afternoon everyone
Well I’ve finally found the Holy Grail, Genuine Triumph Backrest.
Patience is a virtue after all.

How many shekels?

 

[MrBaldylocks]

How many shekels?

Too many