Seat is Done

Finished up the seat cover this weekend. Super happy with it, especially for my first time sewing. The seat pan is painted with epoxy paint for rust prevention, there's a whole ton of steel rivets with washers, and has the hardware through for mounting to the tail section.

Seat Work

It's been a while and I kinda forgot to update on the wiring harness, but that's done. I'll get some pics later before the bike is together. Anyway, here's where I'm at now. I made the seat cushion pan to match the seat tail pan. The front end of it was also boxed in to go over the tank mount.

Yesterday I did most of the seat cover in marine vinyl. Took a bunch of test runs making sure that I could get the pleats straight and parallel, then I made a small test piece to see what the final product will turn out to.

I was pretty happy with how this turned out for a first try, so I did a ton more practicing for the pleats then went for it. The foam is 2 layers of 1/4" scrim foam (fabric backed so the thread doesn't pull through). The 3 layers are spray glued together to make the whole process easier.

This last picture has the cover just taped to the pan to get a good idea of how its coming along. Still have to finish the front section, it just got too late to do it (and I was getting a little frustrated with it).