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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 07:28 PM
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Any of you guys have experience with a quality shop? Or know of one.

I haven't really looked around my area yet, just wanna see what's out there.

I plan recovering my seat with a light tan colored leather (sort of like a baseball glove color). And then having some diamond stitching put on it.
 

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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Alain
Any of you guys have experience with a quality shop? Or know of one.

I haven't really looked around my area yet, just wanna see what's out there.

I plan recovering my seat with a light tan colored leather (sort of like a baseball glove color). And then having some diamond stitching put on it.

Most of the seat guys offer that service, just have to ship and allow that down time. I'm sure in the NJ area has to someone into it do it without having to send it off.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 08:14 PM
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cant help you on a place to send it but i can tell you that if you do your seat like that it will look BAD ***!! What color stitching
 
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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 08:16 PM
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http://www.meancitycycles.com/

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/vendo...at-mod-23.html

He did my seat and it is great work. His forum name is Badx.

I believe he's a forum sponsor. He does great work and has great reviews on here also.
 

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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 08:24 PM
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I go to a lot of bike rallies and often see at least one guy in vendor row doing seat covers, seat gel inserts etc. Usually done within 2 hrs. I'd try that this summer.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by IrIeSpringer420
cant help you on a place to send it but i can tell you that if you do your seat like that it will look BAD ***!! What color stitching
Thanks dude. im thinking black or blue. Or maybe a combination of both.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2015 | 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Pigbacon
http://www.meancitycycles.com/

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/vendo...at-mod-23.html

He did my seat and it is great work. His forum name is Badx.

I believe he's a forum sponsor. He does great work and has great reviews on here also.
Thanks for those links brah. Gonna check him out. Did he rework your stock seat or an aftermarket seat ?

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I go to a lot of bike rallies and often see at least one guy in vendor row doing seat covers, seat gel inserts etc. Usually done within 2 hrs. I'd try that this summer.
That's very true. I don't go to many of those rallies but if I do I'll keep an eye out. Great suggestion.
 
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Old Apr 18, 2015 | 12:27 AM
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He did my stock seat.
 
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Thanks bacon. I'm gonna go look through their website
 
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When I ran the stock road glide seat, I found a vendor that sells just seat covers that you can install yourself and save a little coin in the process. Perhaps they make other model's seats too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Harley-Road-...0a92b5&vxp=mtr
 
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