i've got one opened up in the shop, i'll go out later and shoot a pictue for you.

sluggo wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


Cheers, thats Great, can you get one of the profile too please?

I redid my seat exactly that method you asked about. 2 layers of Ensolite camping pad covered with waterbuffalo leather. Works good.  

As for the inside of the seat, if you are in soggy old England... the cheap vinyl cover is porous. The inside of the upholstered top should be solid mildew. The foam will be either soggy or growing fungus of various neat sizes and colors. The white plastic seat pan should show stress marks, it is pretty flimsy. If you plan to do the rebuild on that pan, reinforce it with some fiberglass, it will be stronger, smoother, and you won't need as much foam. Wish I'd done mine that way, would have let the foam go on smoother, with less leather bunching to fight with. Too late now.
-WD
Look on the poster's map, the seat is on my scoot in all 3 photos.

New new seat, or new to you seat? If it is a used seat, just new to you, wear a dust mask when you take it apart... New new, just strip and go from there. Sorry.

Diaper.  

That plastic over the foam has holes in it...

The fungus/mold/mildew spores get in it during the manufacturing process. The seat cover leaks anytime the bike gets wet, even from washing. The inside if my stock cover was solid black mildew, the seat foam had pink, green, black, orange, and yellow mushrooms and shelf fungi growing on it. Cool, disgusting, quite a stench, but very cool.  8)

The seat rebuild took roughly 3 square feet of 3/8" foam, by the time I got everything pieced together. Pan shape makes for some odd cutting. I think the rough piece of hide was 18"X24". Again, some funky cutting involved. I wish I'd done a better job on mine, it has two highly annoying (visible) stitch lines on the back of the seat. Oh, use stainles steel sheetmetal screws with flat washers to secure the cover, 1/4-3/8 inchers, I'd post the metric size, but don't remember the conversion formula, at any rate, the screws should be as long as one layer of foam is thick. Takes a lot of screws and washers, but, staple gun staples don't hold up as well.
-WD

LMAO, thanks