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750 F2 Cafe racer project 2011

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UK Pete:
WOW Thats fast
Pete

Spitfire:
This is very impressive, I've used fibre glass lots of times for all sorts of repairs but it would never have crossed my mind to use it like you have.

Cheers

Den

K2-K6:
Brilliant to watch Pete, and fantastic progress.

The best thing I've ever seen to cut foam into shape was a bandsaw with either very fine blade or one with teeth ground off to give a knife blade effect, they could cut a block of foam into any shape really accurately.

Sometimes it's better to use thin layers and just cut each layer with scissors then lay one on top of each other to build up a composite shape and just glue the layers up when you're happy with the profile. Can also use different density layers if you need to i.e. very soft base to form and stick to seat base, heavier mid layers to hold shape and then soft top to give good even finish under covering.

For the soft stuff it's worth looking at those "space foam" pillows in Ikea as a cheap scource.

UK Pete:
Well i had a go at covering my seat, firstly i found an old tatty F2  seat foam which i tried to cut to shape with an electric knife ,
Then i used a new seat cover i had bought on ebay last year, this cover was totally the wrong pattern to use on my F2 , so it came in handy using it on this bike
I had all sorts of problems with covering the seat, problem 1 was that the foam was really ragged on the edges, usually it tapers off as it rides down the sides but on this seat foam it had broken up a bit, although i did try and pack it out with thin strips of foam,
Next the shape of the cover was not the same, but in yesterdays sun, the warmth allowed the cover to stretch quite well
The biggest problem was that my staple gun would not fire in to the glass fiber , i had underestimated just how hard thIs goes, so i had to stretch and stick it down, which is a very hard thing to do
All in all i am sort of happy with the out come considering how i went about making this seat, although in the back of my mind i was hoping for better
The seat is a copy of the Phil Read 750 replica seat, but i opted for slightly thicker foam for comfort and if you google search images for the phil read rep you will see the seats are pretty awfull anyway
I have only seen one good Phil read seat and i think it was another forum members bike , and it had a custom made seat cover with different colours and piping on the cover
The good thing is i can easily dismantle the seat and start again if i keep looking at it and am  not happy, but at the moment it is staying as is

Yoshi823:
That is coming along nicely Pete. That seat looks very similar to the PRR and the 750SS.

Have you got the rear tank retaining bar that bolted onto the battery box retaining bolt position? I think that I have the one from my F2 Special somewhere.

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