Seat Bumpers

Looking for a supplier in the US for part #06-7791. Any leads?

Pretty common standard item that many brands use and re-order ad re-order so call favorite or closest Brit Iron vendor and make new friends and set up new account to re-order when time again. Mine tend to drop out so a dab of RTV helps lessen retrievals.

I just found some online but $7.00 a pair? Black gold...

Can't make friends on find a handful from vendor online method. Check ebay too but yeah nothing really economical about motorcycles or other addictions.

Old Britts has them for about $4.

I have seen these buffers somewhere... think in one of those old style hardware stores that has everything. Oh well get one set and go from there. Your right on addictions.. but one I like.

British Cycle Supply Co. has them for $4 list price. I've used BCS often over the years and they have a local number now that goes to Nova Scotia and a shipping warehouse in NJ.

I need to build up the height of two of the buffers on my seat to take up some clearance it's developed and plan to glue some cut-to-thickness shock grommets onto the pan to accomplish that. If you don't care about complete correctness, I think it will work just fine. My buffers were glued down as well as being fastened into the holes in the pan but with some cleaning and good gluing I don't think the lack of the little nubs is going to matter. If I do lose one, I've got lots of old grommets.

I got tired of the seat beating the powder coat or paint off the frame so I installed several bumpers on the frame made of 3/8" hose glued to the frame members. Seems to work for me.



Dave
69S

Just went through this when rebuilding my fiberglass seat base. There was one guy on eBay selling them for $7.99 each but now someone else has them 2/$7.99. Crazy! I tried McMaster-Carr and you can find something close which will probably work for about $16/100. The holes in my seat didn't hold the stock ones well anyway and they needed gluing also.

I had 2 good ones and used them on the rear. The front holes in the seat pan were not in exactly the right spot so those bumpers had uneven wear on one edge. The center ones near the mounting ears were gone and the fiberglass was cracked and broken. Most of the work had to be done in this area with some PC board material, JB Weld and a fiberglass patch kit. I didn't want to weaken it by redrilling the hole for the bumper right in between two other holes so I used some 1/8" self-sticking orange silicone sheet cut into maybe 3/4" strips to kind of spread out the load along the frame rails up in front and near the ears.

Starting over I wouldn't use the bumpers at all - I'd go with the silicone rubber.

Looks like Rabers in San Jose is a bit cheaper.

http://www.rabers.com/search/doSearch.a ... &B1=Submit

Thanks for the ideas. Great info here.