Repair, rebuild or recover your seat at home!

[xwhatsit]

Would you touch it though?

That's why it's behind ropes, isn't it?

[smoky]

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!

LMAO
But there are pictures - how could anyone not see the difference

[crashalots]

Thanks cave weta awesome thread you've got here. Just literally as I was giving up hope for DIY'ing my KX seat foam, which has been shredded internally by staples that were too long! yes longer than 6mm (thanks to DIY disaster - Joe Bloggs - who recovered it previously) and I was about to order a hideously priced precut foam from the u s of a.

Down to para rubber I go...

[xwhatsit]

Hihi,

Finally got around to doing my Honda C50's seat. The seat looks like the ones in the attachments. I'm doing it the way of the early models though, with a black top and white sides.

There are two side pieces; front and back. They join about halfway along the seat.

Now I've cut the pieces and begun to sew it together. I've run into a bit of a problem that I'm struggling to fix though; the tight corners (one at the front of the seat, and two at the back, left and right), whilst pinning up nice, refuse to be sewn together without folding and crinkling and generally looking shitty. I'm sewing slightly `inside' the top piece, to allow the seam (which is black and white so very obvious) to sit at the shoulder of the seat when the cover is stretched on. Could this be the reason why?

Does anybody have any clue about how to do corners (along the seam of two pieces joined at about 90 degrees) neatly without having them tuck and fold? I'd accept it if they were just small tucks but these are deep and obvious and distort the shape.