After much deliberation, i decided my seats needed a make over, as im planning on changing my bike to Black, white and red, I decided the seats needed to match. My old seats were ripped in the front, and were in terrible condition. When I took my bike in to be valued for trade in, i was told, R16 000, and the torn seats were pointed out, I was told that they would cost a fortune to fix....:roll: LIARS
So, here was my very first experience at covering seats :)
Well :) Went to buy the leather, and bought enough, just incase i messed up.
I spent a grand total of R50 on seating leather, and the first day I drew what i wanted, then I got busy cutting out a pattern on newspaper, and covering my seats with that, just to be sure. Then i turned the leather over, and drew with a pencil, outlining the paper cut-outs, leaving quite a large boarder for stitching.
Then i cut the R logo a few times, so its all flat, so nothing is stitched on like layers. Then i pinned everything together, having a wicked looking cover with a blank R hole in it.
Then I places all the R logos into each other, and ironed on this weird material on the back, to hold everything in place.
Then the stitching. I had help with this, as i would have definitely broken the machine :) After it was all stitched, the stretching started, pushing in foam where the plastic in the seat had ripped through. Pulling and stapling did the job :)
After all this, I rushed back to my bike to fit them, and biy, was i proud of my work......now i cant wait for the next thing :D
