Topic: Seat vinyl softener (update)

[HondaMan]

You don't have to worry about becoming a 'hard a#s' Mark,you never sit down long enough    No offense intended 

You may be right!

[HondaMan]

Update, all seats I've used it on still look good, including the sandcast bike. The one 400 seat was already toast so I bought a cover for it. My chassis shop partner was here working on a funny car and he asked if I was wearing some new cheap ass cologne. I realized he was smelling the skin so soft I had put on the Yamaha 850 seat. Smells way better than dog poop on the lawn tractor tire though.
 I'm using the bath oil and it's not pink.

I was about to try this on the 750F seat. Does the [stench] go away after a while?

[grcamna2]

How often do you need to re-apply it Don R ?
 I put it on my cycle seat that I use the most and it's still very supple,even in the cold;it's that blue Sargent cover that I got when I bought a used seat & those Sargent blue seatcovers stay good for a while anyway.I think next I'll put it on an old severely weathered oem seatcover to see if it'll take away the 'white' from it 

[Don R]

Yes the smell does dissipate, We were working on a funny car chassis and my welder kept giving me the stink eye, he finally asked, are you wearing some nasty cologne or something?  HA! No it's just the stuff I put on the yamaha seat.
 I've applied it to the sandfcast's seat 3 times maybe. I don't think it needs any more, it feels like new and no cracks so far. I've used it on a couple more bikes since, it seems to dry in the seam areas first so I reapplied it there.

[Harsh]

Don...Is this the stuff you are using?

[Restoration Fan]

That's it, Harsh. 

Just found this thread but my brother-in-law and I have been using it on our saddles for more than 10 years.  It actually seems to work better than the expensive leather conditioner does on leather so I would expect it would do the same for vinyl.  And whoever posted that about mosquitos is right.  If you are willing to smell like a French cathouse, put that stuff on you if you're going to be in a wet area that has a lot of mosquitos and you can walk through them with impunity.  They won't mess with you at all.