So first order to actually fit myself in the freeway is moving the seat down and back.
Seat Relocation
So the freeway, as stock (I believe) had a funky seat mounting system, where the seat front is effectively mounted on a horizontal dowel, and the rear just sits on some adjustable feet. This then sits on top of a funky tube-steel structure, which I believe was designed to clear the extended fuel tank option (the 9 gallon fuel tank option mounted under the seat).
I cut the seat mounting angle-structures off with a grinder, and rebuilt the mounting structure out of 1” x 1/4” flat bar.
This was all done with the worst welder possible. A few years ago, I bought literally the cheapest wire-feed welder I could find on amazon, mostly out of curiosity (I think it was ~$70). It only does flux-core welding. It’s…… surprisingly not /that/ bad?
Anyways, I fixtured the new seat mount by putting it ontop of the old mount, and put bolts through them to keep things aligned. This didn’t work as well as I had hoped, since the holes in the old mount are way oversized, and since the new mount has appropriately sized holes, one side does not line up (gah).
Fortunately, I’ve been planning on improving the seat mounting anyways (switching to grade 8 bolts), so I should be able to fix that issue pretty easily.
