recovered seats

just to throw it out there, my old man runs an upolhstery business here from home, 36+ years experience so if anyone wants some seats recovered i can hook up a cash job.
just done mine, nothing flash, just glued down a piece of vinyl over steel haha, but if anyone wants something a little more complex give him a call , 416 6144 just say ben said to give him a ring about a cash job on a bike.

That's cool. We need a good local ulpholsterer. Cam is doing some very cool tooled leather seats as well.

yeah Ben I'd like to find out what sorta budget I'd need if I custom make a cafe race style seat, for him to cover it. It would have a long shape, rounded at the end & I guess would need patterns made from it & some sewing etc. I would shape it outta closed cell foam. bout 600mm long & 260mm wide

Yep, whats the base made of? as you need to staple it down, i have a steel seat and my cover is glued down, but to look nice it would be cool to wrap it around and staple it down, you could spend around $200 for a custom made cover, drop down and check out some sample colors, vinyl or leather? give us a ring 416 6144, ask for my old man brett, were just by west gate.

Is that you exhaust plan too Brett? be real careful changing the shape and length of the exhaust on 2 smokers, if you get it wrong you will lose all power

Slaytanica wrote:

Is that you exhaust plan too Brett? be real careful changing the shape and length of the exhaust on 2 smokers, if you get it wrong you will lose all power

yeah Shaun Im gonna try chucking a retro muffler on there. A couple of other people mentioned the same thing that you've just said. I asked a guy at the KTL workshop bout it. He said with the more modern jap 2 strokes it's really important, but with an old 197cc villiers copy he thought it wouldn't make much difference.
I dunno much bout the concept - is it something to do with the gases having some room to expand? Is having back pressure quite important?
Hey Ben thanks for the details, I think it's gonna be real simple now - a rectangular slab of closed cell foam - as Im thinkin I'll use one of the invercargill guy's glass csm seat bases/humps, and just plonk a 30mm foam pad on the base.

Yeah expansion and back pressure are a part of it. if you have a short system you get more HP at higher rpm, a longer system gives more torque. but like you say it is an old engine and might not have a big impact but ya never know

Slaytanica wrote:

Yeah expansion and back pressure are a part of it. if you have a short system you get more HP at higher rpm, a longer system gives more torque. but like you say it is an old engine and might not have a big impact but ya never know

will know next week when the pipe arrives

ok if you wanna drop by with it when your finished im sure we'll pull something off much cheaper

my seat was a cup of coffee, i didnt even have to pay for it i just made it

west end rotangs wrote:

my seat was a cup of coffee

what is it like to sit on a cup of coffee

brett7777 wrote:

west end rotangs wrote:

my seat was a cup of coffee

what is it like to sit on a cup of coffee

well ide imagine warm at first then cold and sticky but im no expert

haha edit 'payment for my seat...'

we'll leave it at that