Replacing a motorcycle seat cover?

Maico 440, that's an oldie but a goodie! My brother had one and I had a Greeves 360, we switched bikes all the time, the Maico had more grunt but the Greeves handled better, such fond memories 8Q.

I've redone a few old seats, they came out okay but I've found that the pros do a much better job, so taking it to an upholstery shop or an auto-detailing shop that does their own in-house work would be my suggestion.

Good luck, roost 'em if you got 'em.

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Replacing a motorcycle seat cover?

I'm replacing the seat cover on my vintage race bike, a 1980 Maico 440. The seat cover did not come with any instructions.

What type of glue to you use to secure the new seat cover to the base?

One site I went on advised using 1/8" staples. I checked my local hardware stores and...

Any upholstery shop or Car stereo guy would likely have the 1/8" staples, Thats where i got mine done. A friend of mine runs an auto body/car stereo store and seems to believe they are the only way to go for the fact that longer ones run the chance of piercing through to the foam in the thinner area's of the seat and also won't always go all the way into the hard plastic and you have to pull them out and retry several times leaving yourself with a mess of holes. Someone who does interior work on cars such as stereos, or seats would likely do a great job.

When shaving down the foam on my Kx125's seat, I just used regular sized staples to put the cover back on. It looks and functions just fine. Even though it's advised that you use 1/8", I don't think it would hurt to use bigger ones.

The last time I did a seat John, I was told to use " tin tacs " But sadly I dont know what the proper name for them.

I guess you could use any staples or tacs that simply work.

I also used a glue Bostik Multi use. It worked good but my advice is to spread the glue really thin, then allow that to go tacky, then apply more glue to that. Leave that for 5 mins then apply the leather. It worked really well.

You don't want to glue as then it has no movement which it does need to a certain extent. We always use 6mm staples but I suggest you just use the smallest that you can buy and it should do the job fine.