Asking For Help Recovering Motorcycle Seat

[Langston]

Covering a stock looking cruiser seat can be a bear. Looks like you got the seat cut out. Making the pattern is the tuff part. On the couple seats I've made I use veg tanned for the top where I do my tooling and had a thick deer hide for the bottom since it stretchs easily.. and I'm a fan of the Mexican round braid.. takes forever but looks awesome

[Evo160K]

Depending upon your construction choices, here are a couple of points to consider: 1. If you do much long distance riding, put the seams/stitches where they will not irritate your legs, and where your legs will not wear out the seams. 2. lap the pieces like roofing shingles, so the rain runs off of the seam rather than into the seam. 3. put a piece of polyfilm under the cover to keep water from getting into the foam and padding. I do iron butt type riding, so I've run into these issues.