Repair, rebuild or recover your seat at home!

[cave weta]

Fitting the cover to the foam:
Play with it a little first – get it warm- foreplay will help you and the virgin vinyl get jiggy with each other. Practice getting the seams to sit evenly on each side, ensure that you have enough extra to get underneath and staple it down with. Now get your heat gun/ hairdryer if needed and the stapler and also the aerosol adhesive if you are covering a two tier seat
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Find the center front of the cover and staple it to the centre front of the seat base.
A little adhesive on the seat foam where your bum goes will help it to stay down when all finished.

[cave weta]

1.Now staple the rear down in the centre and check that your seams are sitting in the right place.
2.Now start working down the deepest part of the seat sides. And staple in place here too.


4.Now, I want you to trim the excess material off the bottom. You need enough not to have to stretch the cover any more than to pull out wrinkles. - if you need to pull excessively then that means that the offending area needs stretching with gentle but direct heat From the hairdryer.
5.start to fill in the rest of the sides with staples.
6.
7.Work the pleats flat in any corners and staple them first. Ease any excess looseness from them into the straight sections.


Refit any hardware that you may have removed from the seat and refit it to the bike.

[cave weta]

Road Test and Photo shoot!

[xwhatsit]

Thanks so much for writing that up. That'll come in very handy when I do the C50's seat. Excellent, cheers.

[cave weta]

Thanks so much for writing that up. That'll come in very handy when I do the C50's seat. Excellent, cheers.

Wow I suprised that your C50 needs doing thia early in its life. And pleased that you have the guts to do it yourself.
I recently heard that a seat for a softtail heritage is over $2000!!


Oh and Im sorry that the photos dont all sit in the right place- I had endless trouble formatting the docoment then when I copied and pasted they jumped around and dont all make sense now.
here are a couple of others that ive done recently- all trail cos thats what im into -these were just for myself.

[xwhatsit]

Wow I suprised that your C50 needs doing thia early in its life. And pleased that you have the guts to do it yourself.
I recently heard that a seat for a softtail heritage is over $2000!!

Well, it's 25 years old, then again, that might be considered fairly new for a C50. They age well. It's an OHC though.

[Sully60]

Well, it's 25 years old, then again, that might be considered fairly new for a C50. They age well. It's an OHC though.

Haha, you guys are talking about two completely different C50s.
If only the Suzuki riders called their bike it's proper name this wouldn't happen!

[xwhatsit]

Haha, you guys are talking about two completely different C50s.
If only the Suzuki riders called their bike it's proper name this wouldn't happen!

I was wondering about the relevance of the Softtail.

You know Suzuki called one of their crusiers a C90 as well? Why they would name their bikes after a pair of ancient mopeds... beyond me

[Sully60]

I was wondering about the relevance of the Softtail.

You know Suzuki called one of their crusiers a C90 as well? Why they would name their bikes after a pair of ancient mopeds... beyond me

They're actually VZXXX's?? of various capacity, C50's C90's and just to make it interesting the M and C109R. Summat to do with cubic inches I suspect.

Yours would be a C3

Nice vinyl stretching there Cave Weta, was the crutch shot a deliberate sales pitch?

[cave weta]

interesting the cubic inches, I suspect Yours would be a laugh:

Nice vinyl stretching there Cave Weta, was the crutch shot a deliberate sales pitch?

Sully- youre a wheezer! I just decoded your subliminal hidden insult!

If you know anyone who needs their vinyl stretched - you know where to send em!

[cave weta]

Well, it's 25 years old, then again, that might be considered fairly new for a C50. They age well. It's an OHC though.

Ahhh!- usually the ony C50 that get mentioned on here are are the big shiney ones. never clicked that yours is like Aunty Helens one ( did you know that the Brittin isnt the only bike in Te Papa?- her C50 is in there too!)

[Sully60]

Sully- youre a wheezer! I just decoded your subliminal hidden insult!

If you know anyone who needs their vinyl stretched - you know where to send em!

Sorry it wasn't an insult, I mean who would'nt want to able to stretch vinyl that far with their crutch?

[cave weta]

Sorry it wasn't an insult, I mean who would'nt want to able to stretch vinyl that far with there crutch?

Where did you get that holiday snap of me!? I was told that the establishment was low key and discrete!

[xwhatsit]

Ahhh!- usually the ony C50 that get mentioned on here are are the big shiney ones. never clicked that yours is like Aunty Helens one ( did you know that the Brittin isnt the only bike in Te Papa?- her C50 is in there too!)

It's up in MOTAT actually -- cracked legshield, chipped sidecovers and all!

The seat cover is nicely done though

[Sully60]

The seat cover is nicely done though

Would you touch it though?