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General Category => Classified / Wanted to Buy => Topic started by: SuSpence on April 13, 2016, 01:18:09 PM

Title: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: SuSpence on April 13, 2016, 01:18:09 PM

Looking to see if anyone here has a bimini top for a 1975 Sportster they are looking to get rid of.

Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: Hyperacme on April 13, 2016, 01:32:42 PM

Not sure if you'll find one ... Most are ripped up and shrunken ...
Canvas shop should be able to make one, modify bow's to fit. 
Measurements of one ...

Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: SuSpence on April 13, 2016, 01:52:25 PM

Thanks for the sketch.  I figured it would be difficult to find one but I should be able to make something based on that.

Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: Hyperacme on April 13, 2016, 01:56:51 PM

 Try making one with an old bedsheet .
 Then bring it to a canvas shop and have them make it out of Sunbrella .
 I think a better design would be not to come down with canvas in the back ,  use one of those nylon straps ,  to keep tension on the top .

Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: not2worried on April 14, 2016, 03:01:09 PM

Not sure if my top off my 85 ssv would fit..anyone know?

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Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: Neutron68 on June 13, 2016, 11:30:00 PM

I've got an original set like this.  The sections are shrunken so they are REALLY tight, and mice have chewed holes in them.

If I take the sections to a canvas shop, and they use the originals as a pattern, will they know how much to expand the new cover so it actually fits (without taking them the boat)?

Eric

Title: Re: WANTED: Bimini Top for '75 Sportster
Post by: CVX Fever on June 14, 2016, 07:22:43 PM

Eric a canvas shop will want you to leave the boat there while they make a new top.