I initially made up these seat support gussets in which the rear “speed hole” would double as the top shock mount, with some additional thickness around it for reinforcement.
Then, a couple of the no-nonsense curmudgeons on the Caferacer.net web forum, said that my gussets were crap, for a number of reasons. And they were 100% right. They don’t suffer fools gladly over there, but I cannot tell you how many times that crowd has forced me to recognize the shortcomings of my work, and do (re-do) things the right way. When criticism is accurate and constructive, it’s worth more than gold.
As a result, here is my much more robust, revised upper shock mount design:
