Had some time today

[kwebbel]

Being in need off a saddle I did some research on the costs for a new saddle made by some professional firm.
Prices offered were all around a solid 300-350 euro.(about 375$-440$), so I decided to make it myself.
I bought some polyurethane, a meter off purfoam, a meter off strong skai-"leather" and a sheet off allumunium 3mm thick for about 40 euro (50 buck)

the victim.


made a template out off cardboard.


made the saddlebase using the aluminium and polyurethane


cut the foam


attached the skaileather with a staplegun.




And here you are.


took me about 4 hours to fab the whole thing....

[soccerlawn]

nice job

[suzukisportrider2004]

looks great!

[chinto]

Re: Had some time today

looks good. I have an extra seat for my bike so I'm going to attempt to make my own gel seat with it. know of any gel pad suppliers?

[Waltari]

Nice...looks great Roger!

[Spedee]

Looks great.

[The CyberPoet]

You have so much skill that I wouldn't be surprised if I sent you to your room for a month, you'd turn out a new bike that would put the big-4 to shame...

Really nice!

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

[KatanaSoldier]

Amazing.

[kwebbel]

You have so much skill that I wouldn't be surprised if I sent you to your room for a month, you'd turn out a new bike that would put the big-4 to shame...

Really nice!

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

Thanks Dad , thought I had dealt with my youth-traumas , but after reading this I feel I need to contact my shrink again

[kwebbel]

Re: Had some time today

looks good. I have an extra seat for my bike so I'm going to attempt to make my own gel seat with it. know of any gel pad suppliers?

Yes I do know some, but they are overhere in Belgium, guess that's no option for you....

[gsxrluver]

looks really good

[tzortn]

Re: Had some time today

looks good. I have an extra seat for my bike so I'm going to attempt to make my own gel seat with it. know of any gel pad suppliers?

http://www.saddlemen.com/gelpads.html

[kwebbel]

A little update...

During the last week I've been busy making a complete new (custommized) harness for the bike, since the CDI, fusebox, regulator aso will be housed in the tail.
It's got extra cables for alarm, pro-oiler, temp-sensors, dash aso integrated, so no ugly possibly_trouble_causing connectors anymore

The bike is completely stripped down to the frame now, allmost forgot to weld a new batterybox, so I made that "on the fly" will bring the frame in tomorrow for PC-ing (gun-metal grey)
Next step will be repairing some minor "fairing-damages", welding the tank-indents and after that a new paintjob for the bike (still playing with some ideas, however the colorscheme will be the same anyway, still got plenty off those paints sitting on the shelf)
Guess I will find myself rebuilding the bike by the end off March, just in time for the new ridingseason overhere.