Reahupolstered my seats for the first time

I am quite proud of myself, I have done a number of things to my bike this last 24 hours, and now I can chalk reahupolstery on my things I have done. It took me about 3 hours to reahupolster both front and back, I fineshed right around midnight last night.

I was about ready to pay someone to do it for me, but everyone I spoke to wanted about $200-250.00, and as we know, necessity is the mother of invention... I did it for a tenth of the cost... $25!

My seats were a lot worse than they look in some of these pictures.

BEFORE:



AFTER:

 

Nice, how's the slip on it? I noticed that when I'm on mine that it's good to stick w/ jeans... b/c any synthetic has me ride'n the tail light.

 

Looks NICE!!!

skillet

 

Thanks! I sat on it (with jeans) and it has a nice firm grip, but I have not ridden it yet, I will be leaving for work in a few minutes here, so I will have a post ride report tonight.

 

Thank you!

 

now scuff and spray that tank...nice work!

 

What kind of material is that? Looks great!

 

I just got back from work and as promised a post ride report!

My commute is about 20 miles round trip, I took a different route to and from work, I had hills and turns, and some nice tight turns, now, I love leaning the bike into turns as far as she'll go (I will ocasionally touch foot pegs to the ground) and this is the most comfortable I have ever felt on the bike, from the moment I sat down.

I can now say that I actually felt one with the bike.

 

but I like the way my high end paint job faids from black edges to a silver center... 8)

 

It is a vinyl with a leather look pattern and the backing is a woven polyester.

 

Is that a stock "700" seat setup, with the split main seat and pillion setup?? I love the way that seat looks, Im wondering if it is adaptable to the 750 (1982 specifically) Anyone know??

Also your recovering job is tits my friend, excellent job!

Jay

P.S. What holds it on, staples? How/what did you use to attach them?

 

Thanks Jay!

Yes, this is a stock 700 seat front and rear.

I used a heavy duty staple gun with adjustable spring tension, and the staples I used were 7/16" to attach it to the plastic seat pan, Probably a little overkill since the original staples I pulled out were about half the size of the ones I put in.

 

VERY nice!! Looks awesome!

 

Hi The Ross Rocket? Nice seat job to say the least but how did you get that tufted effect with the seat???? It looks more like one of those custom seats a guy would have to pay between $200-400-AMAZING! grunt007, 81'XJ750SecaR, Mi.

 

I tried to make everything as flat as possible, I pulled more left and right than I did forward and back, so the top and the sides are nice tight; I actually tried to make the edges a little smoother than they ended up but those corners were kind of a pain! They wanted to bunch and leave giant folds :? .



Thanks everyone for your support!

 

Looks good.

You can eliminate the folds by cutting a slit, or v notch in the excess fabric. Then overlap and smooth the resulting flaps.

Ghost

 

VERY nicely done!!

 

Thanks, I did do that a little before the pictures. I just did not want to over do it and have a cut coming around the corner.

But if I get a wild hair I may remove the seats and re-staple them.

 

Thank you!

 

Great job! I just finished my first attempt at a solo seat for another project. Not as easy as some make it look but not too difficult either. I like your saddlebags too, I have the same set.

 

Great job!

 

Yeah, I thought it was going to be a real P.I.T.A. but it was acctually pretty simple and well worth the time.

I was at a military surplus store when I found the bags, they were cheap at the time so I "had" to purchase them.

 

Thank you!