Finally got the balls to just go for it, cut the patterns, and start sewing the seat. I marked the seat along the centerline, marked, and measured to get dimensions for the patterns. I took the largest dimensions and them made all of the patterns symmetrical. As I laid the vinyl over the foam I looked for how it draped. My goal was to make the seams as straight as possible.
I must have practiced a couple hundred times walking the needle slowly along the curved seams. Getting it to yield a clean product was impossible with my current skillset. So I did two things:
1. I simplified the pattern removing as many curves as possible,
2. I ended up hand sewing the finishing seam in the curved sections by hand.
Pics
Not perfect, a lot of time, but pretty good for my first upholstery job. You can see that I ended up pinching the middle of the seat panel in order to get the material to conform to the curvature of the seat.
I struggled for a long time trying to find a clean solution for securing the seat cover. I've seen the spike strips on Ebay, but I didn't want to have to attach another thing to my already beaten seat pan. I also wanted something removable. A couple of allen button head screws, lock washers and nuts seemed to do the trick.
Pics fastened.
Pics on the bike
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