Looks great Dutch,personally I'm liking the red....
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Diopa Imola style Seat, and bike back to Red
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Well, my Diopa Imola seat finally arrived and after some messing around I've got it fitted.
The design and quality of the fibreglass unit is ok, ...not amazing, but definitely tough and fit for purpose, however, it's not quite paint ready with some small faults in the fibreglass, but most annoyingly, the hole for the rugged latch pin was off centre and too far back. I needed to remake a new hole 4mm back and 4mm over to the centre line. To underline that this wasn't a one off, I also ordered a unit for Ianhear and his is the same. Ian W also had the same issue with his on his Paul Smart.
I think that's a very poor oversight on Diopa's part. How hard is it to drill a central hole?
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The latch also needed 4 washers to space it far enough down to reach the female part of the latch, and I needed to disassemble the seat to remove the spacing washers fitted to the underside of the 4 rubber pillars that sit on the frame, as there was more clearance than it needed.
Having complained a little I'm very happy with the end result. It's central, it clips on and off more easily than the fat OEM seat, it feels totally secure, ...and it looks soooo pretty.
It came unpainted, but in red impregnated fibreglass, so because it didn't match my black and gold tank and I didn't want to wrap it (matt black wrap is a pain to maintain) I knew I'd have to strip the tank and send both off to the paint shop... but as my bike used to be red, I had the added bonus of being able to run the seat on the bike for a while, and put the paint on hold.
Here she is...
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...and here she was 4 months ago...
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I think it's fair to say that the diet has been a success...
More on my blog.
The design and quality of the fibreglass unit is ok, ...not amazing, but definitely tough and fit for purpose, however, it's not quite paint ready with some small faults in the fibreglass, but most annoyingly, the hole for the rugged latch pin was off centre and too far back. I needed to remake a new hole 4mm back and 4mm over to the centre line. To underline that this wasn't a one off, I also ordered a unit for Ianhear and his is the same. Ian W also had the same issue with his on his Paul Smart.
I think that's a very poor oversight on Diopa's part. How hard is it to drill a central hole?
The latch also needed 4 washers to space it far enough down to reach the female part of the latch, and I needed to disassemble the seat to remove the spacing washers fitted to the underside of the 4 rubber pillars that sit on the frame, as there was more clearance than it needed.
Having complained a little I'm very happy with the end result. It's central, it clips on and off more easily than the fat OEM seat, it feels totally secure, ...and it looks soooo pretty.
It came unpainted, but in red impregnated fibreglass, so because it didn't match my black and gold tank and I didn't want to wrap it (matt black wrap is a pain to maintain) I knew I'd have to strip the tank and send both off to the paint shop... but as my bike used to be red, I had the added bonus of being able to run the seat on the bike for a while, and put the paint on hold.
Here she is...
...and here she was 4 months ago...
I think it's fair to say that the diet has been a success...
More on my blog.
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I still like mine without the middle tail light...
relatively pure...
Guido
I still like mine without the middle tail light...
relatively pure...
Guido
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