Topic: painting fenders + new question "seat covers!"

[SKTP]

Any pics of painted fenders? I have a 78 cb750K anf I think I will black it out....front and rear...thoughts?

[ProTeal55]

Either black them out or ditch them all together.
Sometimes Chrome is a good contrast on a darker bike.
It could work both ways...

[heffay]

^ you asked 

notice: no fender stays on the front and fender is trimmed on the front and re-rolled.  also, no rear fender... just too fugly and not cafe enuf.

[SKTP]

sick! thanks...the black front looks rad

[SKTP]

Thought I'd keep it in one thread....OEM or similar seat covers/skins...I have a 78 cb750K every seat cover I have seen has no "texture"/lines ...are they availible anywhere? I bought an ebay seat...it split in a couple of months...there must be good original looking covers out there?

[javahut]

My wife is a seamstress, with a heavy duty machine for sewing heavy fabrics.  She has made several seat covers with all the sticth lines for several guys here in Michigan, she uses a heavy thread such as used by the outdoor boat cover people, so it holds up to weather and the seat material itself is the polar vinyl/ leather like texture such as used on original and other aftermarket seats.  A couple of guys are on the 2nd season and they are holding up well, she just started doing them last year, so we haven't anything longer is testing.

If you want to carefully remove your cover, and ship it, she will make a duplicate and you can re-install it.  SH needs yours to make a pattern, she hasn't got patterns yet from everything, but when she does that won't be needed any longer.

Time and material adds up to $150, plus any shipping fees.
think we have some pictures someplace.

[SKTP]

sounds awesome...I'd love to see some pics!

[shoemanII]

mr. heffay,
wondering how you "rolled" the front fender.  i've got a spare front fender that i'm gonna bob for my "F".  if it doesn't work out, will toss it, but the rolling part has me baffled.  didn't want to leave it sharp-edged, thought of a trim piece or something until this post came around.  thanks very much,
bobp   

[heffay]

shoe... i hate to admit that i did not cafe the 350f but will offer the consolation that i AM building the 400f race project that came w/ the 350f as parts.  i can tell you all about my little 350 though!   

right now, i'm considering swing arm and front end conversions to make the 400f more suitable for the track.   

[SKTP]

this message board moves crazy fast...I'm bumping for more seat cover help...

I can't put a ginat lump of vinyl back there...there must be covers with line on them somewhere?

[SKTP]

pushed back to page ten...time to bump!

Seat cover leads...someone must have them? 78 original-stlye cover with those melted lines in them...they have to be somewhere?

[heffay]

you'll be lucky to find an NOS on ebay, just have to keep watching... that would be my only suggestion unless someone on here has one they want to give up... most of the time people don't give up things like that unless they have more than one.

melted lines?

[super pasty white guy]

you might try
http://www.saddlemen.com/skinsfirst.html

I think that there's also someone on Ebay that makes covers with the embossed stitching lines, but I didn't find any in a quick look.

spwg

[SKTP]

haha...yes melted lines aka fake stitching...I have found tons without the "stitching" but I can't stand that look...I think I may have found soundthing on the ebay...thanks for all your comments/help