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Nick_Giles
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PostPosted: 18:18 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Fitted a new seat cover. Reply with quote
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Boss is away this week so I took the opportunity of spending some of his time today fitting a new seat cover. Wink

I do need to make a few alterations to it here and there, most noticeably at the front where is splays out a bit when pushed into its locked position against the tank and causes it to wrinkle. I got one of the seams out by about 1/4" But I know what the problem is so easily sorted. Smile

I will probably leave it as it is for a few weeks though before I re tighten it all up again as the material may stretch a bit anyway.!

Quite please with the look. - What do you all think.?


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PostPosted: 18:31 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like it, where did you get it from if you don't mind me asking?

I'd quite like something similar!
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PostPosted: 18:35 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
AnPhonEh wrote:
I like it, where did you get it from if you don't mind me asking?

I'd quite like something similar!



Here you go.!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Hornet-cb-600-pc-34-1998-2001-SEAT-COVER-/290886091227?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item43ba2981db

Takes a couple of weeks to arrive as I think he must only make them when he gets an order in.

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PostPosted: 23:23 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gorgeous! I've resorted to sheepskin covers when seats are bad haha
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PostPosted: 23:37 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks great Thumbs Up
Nice job
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 28 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think that looks like a very clean and tidy bike. Thumbs Up

I really need to clean mine.
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PostPosted: 08:08 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice bike, looks great!
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PostPosted: 08:32 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lovely looking bike that. How did you find fitting the cover to the base of your seat? I think I would cock that up royally!
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PostPosted: 08:42 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
It would be nicer if it didn't say 'Hornet' on it. I've never understood the need to keep repeating what kind of bike something is, it already says it on the side.
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PostPosted: 08:49 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks great - you've done a good job Thumbs Up

Before your final stretch of the cover, are you going to warm it up a bit with a hair dryer or something similar? Only questioning as it's pretty cold at the moment and it may expand slightly in the summer when it gets warmer and end up looking like it's "sagging" a bit?
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PostPosted: 08:55 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Davenaylor wrote:
Lovely looking bike that. How did you find fitting the cover to the base of your seat? I think I would cock that up royally!


Remove the original and take your time. Don't use a million and one staples straight off as you will probably need to remove them and replace as the fitting starts to take shape. Once its nearly right you can then put loads in. ( As I said I still need to make a few adjustments.)

I did have a fair idea to start with though due to me being a photographer and spending many hours years ago stretching canvass prints onto frames.

You could I suppose chuck a few quid at a local upholsterer who would no doubt fit it quicker than you could make a cup of tea in.


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PostPosted: 08:59 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bendy wrote:
It would be nicer if it didn't say 'Hornet' on it



Fair point. Possibly. Smile



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PostPosted: 09:04 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
dannymassive wrote:


Before your final stretch of the cover, are you going to warm it up a bit with a hair dryer or something similar? Only questioning as it's pretty cold at the moment and it may expand slightly in the summer when it gets warmer and end up looking like it's "sagging" a bit?


This thought has occurred to me. Or wait for the one and only hot day of the year. Wink


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PostPosted: 09:14 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
jnw010 wrote:
I think that looks like a very clean and tidy bike. Thumbs Up

I really need to clean mine.



Thanks. Very Happy Very Happy

Even though it's an oldish bike I wash and tinker with it regularly.

I also have quite a nice car but I really cannot remember the last time I washed that.! Rolling Eyes

A bike somehow seems more personal and part of you than a car, you hear and feel every noise from it and the road, sense any little feedback it tells you in a way you are detached from in a car. - Or am I just being 'sad'.? Shocked Laughing


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PostPosted: 09:21 - 29 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.............in a way you are detached from in a car. - Or am I just being 'sad'.? Shocked Laughing Nick


No, not sad. You say it as it is and how it should be. I'm exactly the same.
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you hear and feel every noise from it and the road, sense any little feedback it tells you


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FUUUUUURRRCCK.!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked


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That's a nice looking Fazer!














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That's a nice looking Fazer!


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Dick-wad.! Rolling Eyes

Everybody (other than you it seems) knows it's a Harley. Shocked



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