A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

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A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby nortriubuell » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:57 am

Being that I have never ever seen another one, and that I "almost" sold mine :shock: Just curious as to how rare a "Corbin Intersate seat" actually is ??? I saw none at the 2011 Empire Rally either. I included some pics of mine for reference. Comments invited please.

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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby nortonspeed » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:21 am

I guess it must be very rare because Corbin doesn't even manufacture an Interstate Gunfigther seat which will probably sell a lot better. Maybe it is an one-off as the bottom looks like a modified original steel Interstate. Btw apart from that seat I like your Commando.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby grandpaul » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:51 am

I have a similar dual saddle for Interstate, but it's not Corbin.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby pelican » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:55 pm

they'll make them for you all day long if you drop your bike off at their factory
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby Fullauto » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:57 pm

CNW has exclusive rights to Corbin seats for Interstates but Matt stopped supplying them as there are five (5) different length Interstate tanks out there. Too hard to get a correct fit without the bike there.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby rightshiftrick » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:44 pm

nortriubuell wrote:Being that I have never ever seen another one, and that I "almost" sold mine :shock: Just curious as to how rare a "Corbin Intersate seat" actually is ???



As it's a Corbin, Not rare enough! ;P

Used to see the solo gunfighters for them occasionally, never seen the two up Interstsate version around here.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby nortriubuell » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:05 am

nortonspeed wrote:I guess it must be very rare because Corbin doesn't even manufacture an Interstate Gunfigther seat which will probably sell a lot better. Maybe it is an one-off as the bottom looks like a modified original steel Interstate. Btw apart from that seat I like your Commando.


Excellent obeservation on it possibly being an original Norton seat base. :) I never really thought about that. :shock: I figured if I started this thread, some members would input some information on it. I bought it a few years off of fleabay, and though it was for a MK III I didn't care. It's easy to make a bracket for a MK III seat to make it work on any pre-MK III. ( just bolt it to the welded on bracket for the hinge) However, not so easy the other way around.

Thanks for the complement on my bike nortonspeed. Took me like 5 years, working only when I felt like on it. Cheers.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby concours » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:50 am

The period correct seats from them were labelled "Corbin Gentry" and had no tag sewn in external seams.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby vidar hjelm johansen » Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:38 am

Hi
Here is my solution to Corbin on Innterstate.
Cut approx. 5cm. of the seat and moved the 3-4 cm backwards.
So I moved the tank forward a bit, perhaps 1 cm.
Mean the results were pretty good. Had to cut off some of the locking mechanism to the seat because when I moved the seat back, the lock mechanism touched into the the frame.
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Re: A hen's teeth rare Interstate Seat ???

Postby cash » Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:53 am

That's it I've got to have one.
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