Re-upholster a seat / Custom seats

[phucyall]

I am looking to upgrade the passenger seat on my '09 CBR600.
Are there any places that do custom seats around GTA? I've seen lots of tutorials about ordering gel online and doing it yourself, but I'd rather get it done at least somewhat professionally.
I am also considering some sort of cover for the seat with extra padding, but have not found anything nice so far so again might as well have something like that custom made.

Any suggestions regarding making passenger's seat on an SS more comfortable are greatly appreciated.

 

[JZ67]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167156499965105

 

[jeffjones]

I got these seat covers for $50 off ebay.
They fit awesome and were super easy to put on and come in any colour you want.
He has the carbon look like I got and the normal vinylif you want the smooth look.

 

[phucyall]

Does this cover actually make the seat softer? I've seen the no-slip covers, but nothing with any real gel padding or anything like that. I've been thinking of making my own too.

 

[jeffjones]

Does this cover actually make the seat softer? I've seen the no-slip covers, but nothing with any real gel padding or anything like that. I've been thinking of making my own too.

Mine are just a cover no extra padding but one guy took a bicycle gel seat and shaved his padding out and put that in?
It was cheap and comfortable but a bit of extra work.

 

[strictlye]

You can easily buy custom seat covers online and then bring the cover and your seat to an uphosterer. They can replace and change the foam it you like before they wrap it with the new cover.

 

[skapan]

http://saddleshoppe.com/ This guy is good.

 

[phucyall]

Thanks for all the replies. After getting some quotes and ideas I figured that it's going to be too expensive to get the entire seat done (even the tiny passenger seat). I am now considering either replacing the foam myself or creating a cover, but I am running into some difficulties finding good foam locally.

I figured that Fabricland would have something, but no. Any ideas where I can find stores that just sell foam that I can pick through?

 

[Rocco916]

I picked up an office chair memory foam/gel pad at Costco for $16 and just cut the stitching of the fabric cover to get to the foam. I then simply removed the staples from the under side of the bike seat (not all of them....) just enough to peel back the vinyl. I trimmed the new memory foam to size, put it on the bike seat and then used a staple gun to put the vinyl cover back into place. It worked well with the short time I had prior to departing for a week long trip however now that I'm back i will remove some of the existing factory foam on the bike's original seat as simply adding more foam did raise the seat height slightly.....wasn't a bad thing but i think it will be better once i trim it down to the point that the new memory foam follows the original countour of the factory seat.

I've seen others also mention you can get another memory foam seat cushion for around $10 from Canadian Tire......this may work also.

Good luck with it if you try it. Costco still has those cushions in the office section as recent as yesterday when I was there last.
Cheers.