Fifty5
Veteran Member
It seems that all of the Thailand based suppliers make the same incorrect chrome trim for the CB77 replacement seats. It goes straight forward and just stops. It should turn up at an angle as you can see in the last picture. Other than that, my seat is well-made and I am happy with it. Today I was looking at it and started to obsess about how it SHOULD look. The trim on my old seat was hopelessly mangled and couldn't be repaired. Then I realized that my old trim was not damaged on the forward parts. I got out a small cut-off wheel and cut off the parts of the trim that ran in front of the grab strap. Using electric heat shrink tubing, I mated the old forward trim to the new back part. (The heat shrink keeps them aligned.) The seat strap covers up the splice and heat shrink tube. Viola! I now have, what appears to be, correct trim on a good looking, new seat.
Seat, with incorrect trim.
Splice with heat shrink tubing.
Seat with "correct" trim.
Seat, with incorrect trim.
Splice with heat shrink tubing.
Seat with "correct" trim.