Make a custom seat for $50

[tjdudeman]

Take some sheet metal and cut it to size of old seat but with 1''-ish of overhang. Put on bike and take a ball peen hammer and pound the seat into shape while on the bike. Find an old leather jacket or something of the sort for an outer layer. Find some foamy stuff, I used 8 layers of the foam pad you put on top of a bed. Cut the foamy stuff to fit over seat with a little overhang. Rough cut the leather so it fits over foam and metal sheet. Tape leather to seat for general view. Use rivets to attach the top side of the leather to the seat. Cut excess leather off from bottom of seat. Attach bottom side of leather to seat with rivets. Boom got a nice custom seat. Took me about 2 hours while I was also smoking hookah. Not very difficult if you plan ahead and think things through!

My bike is a single seater which helped make this redo easier.




One of the rivets has popped out of its place on the seat, but I'm not really worried about it. The seat is really comfy and I think it looks pretty badass.

[DGXSER]

Very cool idea, and nice looking seat.

If you like the look of the exposed rivets, that is cool. I think it goes with the look of your bike. If you or others prefer to not see the rivets, then you can try this. Put the foam padding out to the edge of the metal with some thickness. Then take a piece of small round plastic tubing, about 1/8" diameter and cut it open, lay it around the perimeter of the metal, the metal inside the tubing through the cut, so the metal edge will not cut the material. Then you can pull and stretch the material over the pan, and pop rivet from below only.

[CatatonicBug]

Rather than using leather, which will require considerable up-keep, I strongly suggest using marine vinyl. It can take the abuses of rain and weather a lot better than leather without the headaches of having to constantly oil it to keep it soft.

[Yard Dogg]

You can find sporty seats for cheap. I got mine for $30.
This is one that I made myself. Metal pan, bent up at the back, I used kneel board foam for it. This seat was great, I could ride all day without my butt hurting.