14/3 New seat cover... Haze Blog
Sometimes you have to give up and just make something happen. I can't tell you how many, in a polite way, asked me if it's not time to repair the seat cover as their eyes it looks a bit ripped up compared to their well polished bikes. I don't see It the same way, if it does not make the bike faster, better or stronger, I don't give a shit how it looks. So that's not the reason.
Its the other stuff called rain who made me do this. Normally we don't have that crap here in spain, but this year it has moved in to stay as far as I can see. And as we have moved some kilometers away from the garage, the bike now often are parked outside the office, so either I have to fix the seat, or start using diapers for my wet ass.
However, This is a minor work, takes an hour or two to get the material, and do the work.
Total cost: 14 Euros as we added extra foam.
A minor scratch in the seat makes it wet in rain.
A lot of staples hold the cover in place..
A screwdriver open them up...
and You can take them away...
..to your collection.
With the cover half way off you can see marks..
from the water and missing parts of the foam.
I will put an extra layer of foam rubber to get..
..the seat softer so I use dublesided tape to hold..
..it in place when I'm working.
Used the scissor to bevel all edges..
Looks nice, so on with the cover..
Draw my stapler and started shooting....this could be tricky as the seat bends up....and you don't
want any wrinkles..
...so start shooting from the middle, just a few,
then the back side, and last stretch the cover over the front.. then fill up with staples all the way..
