New Saddle

My 91 CB Nighthawk 250 is 6" and 500cc too small a bike for me.  I have had it for coming on 8 years and 8k miles, and it is the bike both b and I learned on.  Although I would like to upgrade, financial pressure and lack of a second motorcycle parking spot  (dollars and sense) preclude that happening this year.  To tide myself over I upgraded my seat.  Above is the original stock seat, which I reupholstered two years ago.

Last weekend I used my upholstery knowledge to make my own custom seat, more suited to my 6'2" frame than the stock one.  To do so I bought a used beat up seat on Ebay, ripped of the vinyl, and then cut the underlying foam into a bucket shape.  I then stretched a new layer of vinyl, resulting in a custom bucket or "Gunfighter and Lady" style seat (second picture).  To cut the foam, I used a drywall saw.  This was not ideal, and left significant roughness in the foam.  If I were to do it again I would use an electric carving knife to get a smoother cut.  Another tip for the enthusiastic seat artist, don't try to make your seat very curvy, as this will require custom cut and sewn vinyl (certainly past my skill level and at least requires a sewing machine).  Mathletic riders:  If the seat is close to locally solving Laplace's equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions then you can cover it nicely with a single rectangular piece of vinyl, without air pockets of creases.