Unfortunately missed the opportunity to write up the Bandit's front brake and clutch line replacement, and master cylinder rebuilds. I'll be doing the rear brake line and master cylinder soon so I'll be sure to write that up.
The Yamaha developed a rip in the seat a year or more ago. It was near the front at the seam, and it continually got worse as time went on. Well, there's nothing to make a bike look more shabby than a ripped seat so I decided to get it fixed, or replace the seat. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the rip. I didn't like to look at it.
Not knowing where to go I googled up motorcycle seat repair and found Motorcycle Scooter Upholstery on yelp. It's not a storefront, just a guy who does seat work out of his garage. So I gave a call to the number on the yelp page, and a guy in a heavy accent told me to drop by with the seat at noon on Saturday.
The address he gave me was way out in the outer Sunset in SF, almost a 90-minute ride from where I live. So I strapped the seat to the Bandit and rode over the Golden Gate Bridge ($6.25) to the City.
To make a long story short, Tony worked on it while I waited to save me a 2nd trip. It was not cheap ($85, cash only), and took 2 hours. He replaced everything forward of the front seam, a small piece of leather sewn in. The rest of the seat is still the original vinyl material. But it looks completely OEM, you'd have to know it was repaired. So I'm happy with the work, and I guess for 2 hours and materials $85 is reasonable. Some photos of the repair. The new leather is at the front of the seat, the rest is original.
urfa oto teyp
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