Customised seat myself

[eka]

Never done anything like this, but wanted to try. I saw in youtube manual Chinese leather sewing machine and that looked working well enough as about 100 euros rough looking manual tool i ordered it from Aliexpress, some coffee brown leathers, thick sewing thread, gel pads and sewing machine needles. I had some 1cm and 2cm thickfoam in garage. I clued it around gel pads and used corner grinder to make it smooth. Over the foam i put silicone film as thought to make foam waterproof.

I had bought laser encarver earlier and tried it on leather. Works well, so designed some graphics on top and sides i encarved like full of wormholes fading on top.

I put some film ever the seat, covered with masking tape and draw there lines where stiching should ve about. Took film off with tape, cut through lines in pieces and used tgose as sabloon to cut leathers with some extra for sewing.

Sewing was not so easy as first try. I made some mistakes, but got it done somehow.

When cover was finished it looked wrinkled. I soaked it with leather balsam from both sides and put on the seat. Then i put lots of wires under the seat to pull leather tight and left it to stretch pne day. Now and then tightened wires. Then i stabled it around and cut excess off. Buttom of seat is lower, so it needed something to pull it tight. I bought long needles and managed to get some threaths through the hole in bottom and tightened there.

It needs some driving now to break it in, but my bike is at suspension shop as Wilbers shock preload hose broke.

 

[Tripps]

Wow, nice job, I'm impressed

 

[Tripps]

@GPMAZ is going to think I taught you how to type on a phone.
( I only had to make 2 corrections to that sentence)
( And one to the second)

 

[Kevin frazier]

Great job man! Looks awesome

 

[papanorm]

Nice job, hopefully it's as comfortable as it looks.

 

[RugbyRef]

Overachiever! Seriously...looks really good...very professional!

 

[Kevin frazier]

The more i look at it, it just screams, “showoff”

 

[Italianguy069]

Wow ! awesome job ! you got skills !

 

[Idaho Red Rocket 3]

Awesome job @eka. Looks great. Now after a full riding season, how comfortable is it ?

 

[eka]

I did like original R seat. Never got sore butt, but my knees were a bit stiff after long rides. I have aftermarket pegs higher than original and it also makes knee angle a bit tighter. I can't lower pegs as still scratching them. Anyways the seat is couple centimerers higher and wider. Little change helped a lot with knees. The main reason though was, that i wanted to check if i could make it myself from leather and encarve leather with my laser toy. To be honest, i still stare it with great pleasure every time, before hop on.