Tuffside Seat Installation - Honda CB450 - Cafe Racer - Part 3

Custom hinged Tuffside cafe racer seat installation with a quick release latch and a custom under-seat electronics tray.
In this video we make a hinged mounting plate and latch system for the Tuffside cafe racer seat that we're using for our CB450 project. We also fabricate an electronics tray and work out the battery location.
Chapters:
00:00 Designing the seat mounting plate
02:30 Welding the seat hinge
02:40 Test fitting the Tuffside café racer seat
02:49 Mocking up the electronics tray
03:09 Test fitting the electronics tray
03:35 Making the electronics tray out of 16 gauge steel sheet
05:37 Rubber mounting pads for the seat
07:17 The electronics tray installed
09:52 Quick-release latch for the seat
12:59 Installing the quick-release latch in the electronics tray
13:45 Testing the quick-release latch installation
15:20 Installing rivet nuts to mount the electronics tray
16:09 Hinged Tuffside café seat installation complete
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[@bonsaitigerMTB]

Re my comment on part 4. Nevermind, I found it haha. Awesome work man. Guess I gotta learn how to weld.

[@TheCalvinSkinner]

The button latch is genius

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks. I can't take full credit though, I saw something similar on a forum a while back and adapted their setup for this project.

[@matsiemackvlogs4389]

Wow its great job

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks!

[@Jonofalltradesny]

Nice build!! Thanks for this!

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks for watching

[@levsheppard2859]

awesome job !

[@michaelsams450]

Thank you!

[@Benji...]

Looks great man thanks for sharing

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks

[@feltwashers]

This is a really smart seat solution. Thanks for sharing. I'm working on a CB 450 complete re-build right now too!

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks. Good luck on your build, these bikes are a ton of fun to ride.

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[@misaeldanny3561]

@Ezra Kamari Instablaster ;)

[@ezrakamari8123]

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[@qlr650]

Really clean job!!! Where did you get the Quick-release latch for the seat?

[@michaelsams450]

Thanks. I got the latches on Amazon. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SKM8LLX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1