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20 dollar seat recovering

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ScreamingLiL2stroke

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I recovered my seat today cost me a lil under 20 bucks and a few hours of my time,i bought a piece of vinyl from the fabric store it was 14.99 and theres enough of it to do 2 seats 1 can of spray adheasive and a small box of self tapping screws and washers from home depot.

Since the tabs on the bottom of my seat were shot i used the screws to secure it down but the spray adheasive holds it really strong to. i also shaved down the foam in the front cause im a short guy lol and reshaped it with a sanding disc on a drill

Im no seat upolster but i have recovered alot of atv seats with this method and it holds up good,u can also see my progess on the bike thus far,the tank is in stages of being wetsanded i just put it on to see how the seat looked

seat before
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after
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I used a cheap grill cover to cover my seat once. It was real durable vinyl with a thick padding on the inside so it worked nice.

Backyard mechanics at it's best. Nice looking machine!
 
Bikes coming along,i had it running for about 15 secs today lol
 
second that motion

second that motion

Upon inspiration from this post I also redid my seat. The fun part is I started with a stepped seat, chopped it flat with a bread knife, and added some extra padding befor using vinyl to recover it.
 
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