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Hi folks, I'm rather delighted with myself! A tear in Tinkers seat has been getting worse with the passage of time, and buying a new seat is a bit pricey. I looked into re-covering the seat, but realized it was probably a bit too skilled for a DIY job. So, whilst dutifully following my nearest and dearest around the drapery dept. of a large local store I spied a pair of leather elbow patches, as worn by scholarly pipe smokers way back when. I stuck one over the rip with UHU contact adhesive, more in hope than with any real confidence, thinking I couldn't make it look much worse. However,you have to look hard to see the repair,which cost less than a fiver for glue and patches. (I'd send a pic but haven't fathomed how to get them from phone to new computer yet.) (That could be a winter project.)

Getting a motorcycle seat recovered professionally does not cost much money.

That's a surprise, I imagined it would be quite expensive. In the meantime, I've still got the other patch to get my fivers worth out of.

Reg bear in mind they have all the kit to do the job. Somewhere between £25 and £50.

I got my own design of seat base professionally upholstered for £25.

Blimey papa, that is cheap. Don't know why, but I have this vision of elves happily working away covering motorbike seats in some fairy tale woodland workshop! (Going to take my pills now.)

Reg you CAN pay a lot to get a motorcycle recovered, tooled leather and artwork but a basic recover because of a split here and there is cheap.

Tornado's seat Says 'ENFIELD' on the back of it...






Would it be cheap to have it changed to 'TORNADO' ?