Posted by Fin 676...
After a couple of hours riding i get a bit of pain in the tail bone so i finally decided to do something about it.
I do like the look of my stock seat and didn't like the idea of using a seat pad that goes over the seat, so i bought a suitable gel pad for fitting internally in my seat.
First thing i did was strip the seat cover off ensuring all remnants of the original staples were removed and stripped the smoothing foam off the main foam pad.
I sat the gel pad on the seat foam and marked around it...
I then cut slits in the marked area at the approximate depth of the pad...
It was then easy to remove the slits of foam until the pad fitted correctly...
I then used a spray on glue to hold the pad in place more glue and re fitted the smoothing foam...
I then put the seat cover over the foam and using a thin length of old coat hanger looped the string for the buttons over the end of the metal and held in place with a wee bit of tape and pushed it through in the appropriate place...
Fitted the loop of string into the new seat buttons and secured with new parts on the underside of the seat foam...
Fitted the foam with attached cover back on to the seat base making sure I was using the original line for the staples...
Finished seat.
A wet and windy Sunday afternoon taken care of and only time will tell if it was time well spent.
After a couple of hours riding i get a bit of pain in the tail bone so i finally decided to do something about it.
I do like the look of my stock seat and didn't like the idea of using a seat pad that goes over the seat, so i bought a suitable gel pad for fitting internally in my seat.
First thing i did was strip the seat cover off ensuring all remnants of the original staples were removed and stripped the smoothing foam off the main foam pad.
I sat the gel pad on the seat foam and marked around it...
I then cut slits in the marked area at the approximate depth of the pad...
It was then easy to remove the slits of foam until the pad fitted correctly...
I then used a spray on glue to hold the pad in place more glue and re fitted the smoothing foam...
I then put the seat cover over the foam and using a thin length of old coat hanger looped the string for the buttons over the end of the metal and held in place with a wee bit of tape and pushed it through in the appropriate place...
Fitted the loop of string into the new seat buttons and secured with new parts on the underside of the seat foam...
Fitted the foam with attached cover back on to the seat base making sure I was using the original line for the staples...
Finished seat.
A wet and windy Sunday afternoon taken care of and only time will tell if it was time well spent.