Getting Seat Back On.

The 790/865s have a front tab and two hooks about 60% of the way back plus the bolt tabs.

With mine I would put the front tab just shy of its tank slot then apply slight downward pressure on the forward seat portion and slap the tail forward. It sounds like the midway hooks are not depressed enough to engage and preventing the front tab from engaging.

 

What Callumity said. But there is a knack to it, the more you do it the easier it gets

 

As Arkwrght said, ju ju ju ju ju jiggle it

Alffie

 

Best of both worlds, easier to handle, and can be nipped up with an allen key, so not so easy to initially undo by hand...

 

Crap design, full stop.
Penny pinching by Triumph, no other logical explanation for it that I can see.
Not helpful I know, just an observation.

 

I definitely find that there is a “right” and “wrong” way to do it. I start by fitting the left-side bolt using an Allen key socket on an extension bar. It’s then fairly simple to press down lightly on the other side and fit THAT bolt.

Tighten the right bolt, then the left.