Seat won,t stay on!

Yep, mine does the same thing. Quite annoying.

My seat comes off several times a ride. Hope someone has a solution.

never had a problem and weigh 266lbs so you'd have thought i would as planey heavy enough to bend the seat base you would have thought.

are you fitting them properly as i've had to double check in the past that all the liugs were in properly.

2600 miles and mine has never come off. That said, whenever I transport my bike on an open trailer I am afraid of losing it so I put a safety strap around it.

Isn't there an adjustment you can make on the latch?

I'm pretty sure the seat attaches to the top of the tank. The front tank bolt directly in front of the the air filter has about 3/4 an inch of play to allow the tank to move forward and backwards. Try loosening that bolt as well as the other tank bolts and moving the tank back a bit. That may solve your problem. Hope this helps.

I have never had the problem on mine. The one time that it did come loose, it was because I failed to properly seat the mid latches in the center portion of the seat.

squi15 said:

Try loosening that bolt as well as the other tank bolts and moving the tank back a bit. That may solve your problem. Hope this helps.

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This sounds like a great plan. I will let you know if this works on my bike.

Thanks for the great idea,
Todd

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The culprit is very likely one of the two black plastic "catchers" that make part of the structure (PN 81203003000) that carrys the weight of the subframe & rider (tensile load).
The seat is held in place with 4 slots: tow at the front of the seat ( at he front of the airfilter) & two where the seat rests on the black "sub frame upper part" very close to the tank. It is very likely one of these middle "catchers". It doesn't go into the hole in the seat. Use a hot air gun to bend it a little outwards. It is the one that lays closer to the tank. It leaves a rubbing mark on the plastic base of the seat on the outside of that particular hole.
The lock at the back locates and locks the seat into place.
there are also two vertical "tabs" that fall to the inside of the sub frame upper part. Sometimes one of these tabs rests on the subframe upper part preventing the seat to "sit" correctly.

bloody h**l, it's not easy to write it down clear...
if needed I will make a photo reportage.

I found a fix for my seat. I inserted to half rings of aluminum (previously my handle bar trimmings) under the leading edge of the upper tank mount. The slight angling down of the mount seems to be holding well. It is a little harder to put the seat on but well worth it since the seat has not come loose in three rides (12 hours of riding).

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Hope the photos helpl,
Todd