This will be the last stupid question (I Hope)

[rsb]

My bike is running sweeter than sweet with the new coils just waiting for the air filters now. I have used T-Cut on the paint work and polished it with turtlewax polish. and she is looking nice (needs a respray but cant afford it right now) the seat is not looking too good I dont really know what to use on it the misses sugested normal Mr Sheen household polish Now I know thats a Bloody STUPID idea as the seat will become slippery. Now the seat is looking kinda gray colour and obviously spending a lot of time making the bike look nice I want the seat to be black again now it does have white writing on it so need to keep that white anyone any ideas??
thanks
rsb

[hampshirehog]

Whatever you use you're gonna end up with a slippery seat, at least to start off with. However, you could use any of the standard silicon sprays eg Back to Black. Let it soak on a while before wiping off.

If you want to remove the slipperiness try wiping the finished job with auto painters cloth wipes (the things for cleaning off between spraying different coats). Try a test piece first as they contain some sort of solvent which might disolve your seat cover

Use Mr Sheen on the white bits (polish with 'gusto') - should do the job and the missus will feel she's contributed

[chuckycheese]

silicone

Yeah, the silicone conditioner is probably about as good as you can do without getting a new cover. Personally, I like the slippery feel and put it on my seats, often, because of that feature.

[Clone]

Go to a fabric store and get yourself 1 meter of marine grade vinyl in whatever color you like and recover your seat. Will cost you all of $20.

[kamelman]

When I used to manage a restaurant we would get a guy to come in and re-dye the vinyl. Looked just like new for about 1/4 the price of recovering.