Motorcycle seat repair $5 plus glue

I finally got round to repairing my seat which I had cut and shut to improve the lines. I took about 25mm off the top and about 75mm off the length. This allowed me to retain the old seat cover, I simply cut the damaged corner off and replaced it with my $5 seat cover which came from a Honda XR250RG. It looks very used, but that was what I wanted and cheap too. Just stuck it all back together with contact adhesive. I was thinking about sticking something else over the join for aesthetics and for additional reinforcement. maybe a natural brown leather belt?

Cafe Racer influences

I thought it would be interesting to see how crispy-one would look with a cafe racer style seat and a classic exhaust in under and over configurations. Is it too cafe? Perhaps.....

I also deleted the side covers altogether and added a foam pod filter in the first two concepts.

Vintage Supermoto LowRider Version!

What do you think of this concept?

Vinatge Supermoto is FINISHED :-]

Well not really, this is my latest concept in photoshop. Still not really happy with it. Will keep going till I am H A P P Y with it…

More concepts and my need to be creative

Some of us need to be creative on a daily basis, it’s a like oxygen, without it I feel I would suffocate. So here are four more ideas exploring the use of leather belts, diagonal lines through the tank/sidecovers, some more wood and a red seat patch.

Motorcycle Seat Repair & Modify 101

The right rear corner of the seat was ripped anyway, so I thought I might as well do a cut and shut job on the seat to improve the ‘lines’. The local wrecker was in a generous mood and gave me an old seat for just $5 (probably all its worth) so I could salvage it to repair my seat. I don’t want the seat to look brand new, but still want a custom look. See if you can figure out what I am going to do using the two images as a reference

What’s going on here then?

Apart from the fact that I’m almost out of Scotch....