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Go big and go broke
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- Rocket 3 Storm GT 2025
So, I decided to take a risk on Italian craftsmanship, you know, Italian suits, etc.. see how it applies to Rocket 3 seat cover replacement.
So, it is basically a cover that you get, 3 pieces, and you undo staples on the stock seat, remove the manufacture's cover, put the new one in, stretch and staple all around. Way less $ that of Corbin solution, let us say.
The product: RIVESTIMENTO RICOPERTURA SELLA TRIUMPH ROCKET 3 III 2019 2024 | eBay
Also on their website: Seat Cover per Triumph ROCKET III (2019 - 2022)
Well, received it today, took like a month. I am frankly appalled at the quality. The stitching looks amateurish. Everything was done with a single stitch, in a few places it was run a few times in parallel, still, the most basic stitch.
Number one, ZERO waterproofing. Every stitch should have an iron-on waterproof ribbon or spray-on, or glue-on solution, you get the idea. Otherwise, in rainy conditions, water enters in, water can't escape. Things start to grow. Threads start to get soft. Things deteriorate.
The next is more extreme, now bordering on carelessness about their own product and the investment into the product by the customers. It is the stitch that connects a specialized ribbon where staples would go and the side paneling of the seat. It is a single most basic stitch. If this one thread breaks, it will create a visible hole, because the seat skin is under stretch, who does it? Name is "running stitch" and it is the most basic, it is not used much because when it breaks, results in an ever expanding hole.
Yeah, if say they didn't know what they are doing, like, say I would ask some grandma to make me a seat cover, she has never seen one, maybe she would just do something to her imagination. But this is a company that specializes in making seat covers. They do it for, like all bikes out there, not their first rodeo, so to speak..
Pics of Volcano stitching: imgur.com/a/lIaWjwJ
Pics of Triumph stitching: imgur.com/a/YdZw9ps
Thoughts? Am I being taken advantage of?
So, it is basically a cover that you get, 3 pieces, and you undo staples on the stock seat, remove the manufacture's cover, put the new one in, stretch and staple all around. Way less $ that of Corbin solution, let us say.
The product: RIVESTIMENTO RICOPERTURA SELLA TRIUMPH ROCKET 3 III 2019 2024 | eBay
Also on their website: Seat Cover per Triumph ROCKET III (2019 - 2022)
Well, received it today, took like a month. I am frankly appalled at the quality. The stitching looks amateurish. Everything was done with a single stitch, in a few places it was run a few times in parallel, still, the most basic stitch.
Number one, ZERO waterproofing. Every stitch should have an iron-on waterproof ribbon or spray-on, or glue-on solution, you get the idea. Otherwise, in rainy conditions, water enters in, water can't escape. Things start to grow. Threads start to get soft. Things deteriorate.
The next is more extreme, now bordering on carelessness about their own product and the investment into the product by the customers. It is the stitch that connects a specialized ribbon where staples would go and the side paneling of the seat. It is a single most basic stitch. If this one thread breaks, it will create a visible hole, because the seat skin is under stretch, who does it? Name is "running stitch" and it is the most basic, it is not used much because when it breaks, results in an ever expanding hole.
Yeah, if say they didn't know what they are doing, like, say I would ask some grandma to make me a seat cover, she has never seen one, maybe she would just do something to her imagination. But this is a company that specializes in making seat covers. They do it for, like all bikes out there, not their first rodeo, so to speak..
Pics of Volcano stitching: imgur.com/a/lIaWjwJ
Pics of Triumph stitching: imgur.com/a/YdZw9ps
Thoughts? Am I being taken advantage of?
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