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The seat on any correctly restored vintage motorcycle is the MOST FOCAL POINT of any aspect or other parts of the bike. Why? Simply because ANYONE can get a bike painted correctly, assuming you have a descent painter who can either find OEM paint or reproduce colors exactly with state of the art scanning tecniques used by paint suppliers. ANYONE can get parts rechromed to restore their bike. And ANYONE can buy NOS parts, when available, to replace old parts. ANYONE can track down even vintage tires, emblems, reproduction decals and other cosmetic and mechanical parts. Prices vary for all these items, but in the end their is no 'true old world artisanship / old school craftsmanship' going into these parts or services. There are not anywhere NEAR the amount of variables involved in any one of these restoration aspects that there are in seat repair and restoration and seat cover reproduction. Not even CLOSE! However...NOT JUST ANYONE can painstakingly repair a seat or reproduce a seat cover as authentic as we at COOL RETRO BIKES have! We HAVE that OLD WORLD CRAFTSMANSHIP / ARTISAN approach to vintage motorcycle seat covers! We have literally spent countless hours tracking down vinyls that are as close of a match as possible form all over the world. Some of these vinyls end up costing a PREMIUM and are sometimes TEN times the normal price (or MORE!) of readily available vinyls. Sure it would be simpler to take the 'EASY WAY OUT" and offer less accurate seat covers for less money, but that is NOT what COOL RETRO BIKES has ever been about! Check out 'THEIR' seat cover kit and , assuming you are KNOWLEDGABLE , you will realize 'their' details are all wrong! The Vinyl grain is NOT EVEN CLOSE on 'theirs', the welt cord / piping is most likely the wrong size, and the bottom mounting skirt on 'THEIRS' is most likely a NON MATCHING material (unlike OEM HONDA) and the LOGO may just be applied with cheap spray can enamel which is NOT GAS RESISTENT!..go ahead..just ask 'them'! 'Theirs' also offers ONLY a cover and belt THATS ALL?

COOL RETRO BIKES offers the ONLY COMPLETE KIT that includes all the hardware you need to restore your seat to OEM standards like belt reinforcers, new hardwrae to re-install chrome trim strips moldings, or alternately, high polished chrome button rivets that are the closest match available (no longer available from Honda) ..or even better, we offer the ONLY REPLACEMENT CHROME TRIM STRIP MOLDING as an option in our seat cover kits. Have you seen any one else going to these lenghths to offer the BEST , MOST ACCURATE, MOST COMPLETE SEAT COVER KIT ON THE MARKET ...ANYWHERE? Thats what we thought..no you wont find this kind of quality anywhere else but thru COOL RETRO BIKES!

If you spend $50 on one of 'THEIR' seat cover kits for your fine restoration, plan on DEVALUEING the price of your bike by a few hundred dollars AT LEAST, because again, the seat is the most variable item and the focal point of any bike. Most any enthusiast that knows these bikes will recognize IMMEDIATELY a CHEAP INFERIOR reproduction seat cover because it wont look even close to original! Look...You put in hours and hours scouring ebay, the internet, and bone yards to find one single part. TIME = $$$MONEY$$$. You dont have to look far and wide to find the BEST SEAT COVER AVAILABLE ANYWHERE. ITS RIGHT HERE. So dont waste time AND $$$ buying theirs. We have already had customers that went thru this process, oly to end up buying our cover &/or sending us their seat to be restored! Instead of DEVALUING your Bike, make the investment now and your bike will INCREASE IN VALUE to MORE THAN PAY for the price of COOL RETRO BIKES seat cover kit
As you can see, Cool Retro Bikes has the ONLY TOTALLY COMPLETE Seat Cover Kit available on ebay or anywhere else for that matter. We take pride in going the extra mile to give you, the Do-It-Yourself Restoration Enthusiast the ABSOLUTE VERY BEST , HIGHEST QUALITY, MOST HISTORICALLY CORRECT AND ABOVE ALL THE ONLY COMPLETE KIT ON THE MARKET.

Cool Retro Bikes COMPLETE Seat Cover Kit includes:

1) Marine Grade UV Vinyl (closest match available to OEM) w/ Black Faux Suede Pleated Top Panel w/ Correct Sized and Number of Pleats, Correct OEM Style & Sized Logos (both sides) Applied in Silver Gray Custom Matched Vinyl Dye, Correct Top Stitched Rear Tail Panel, Seperate Tank Lip, Correct Mounting Skirt, Shock Cut Out Reinforcements

2) New Belt w/ Our Exclusive Non Rusting Aluminum Belt Reinforcers and New Metric Mounting Hardware
3) New Pan Edge Guard Molding that Exceeds OEM
4) 12 Repro New High Polished Chrome Button Rivets

5) Masters Detailed Instruction Manual w/ 'How To Tips' on old trim and cover removal, pan refinishing and Cover - Belt reinstall, ALL the info to produce great results yourself !

PLEASE READ THE REASONS FOR THE PRICE OF THIS COVER KIT DUE TO SEVERAL FACTORS AS OUTLINED BELOW :

1) Cost Of Materials : including SUEDED VINYL, PREMIUM GRADE UV MARINE VINYL SIDES, FOAM TOP , EXTRA CHROME BUTTON RIVETS (12 total) plus custom made BRIDGESTONE logo masks on TWO sides ( versus the typical single logo on the rear of a HONDA seat )

2) Labor : Additional time involved over ANY OTHER cover kits we offer to measure out pleats correctly in suede, and stitch LONG pleat lines, top stitching on several areas (around top panel and rear tail, lip etc) and additional complicated pieces like the front lip, shock cut out skirts etc. Plus Installing TWO logos / one per side ( versus the typical single logo on the rear of a HONDA seat ) . This cover has TWICE the amount of MATERIAL, 4 TIMES THE COST of our other kits, and 4 TIMES the LABOUR HOURS to fabricate it!

3) Loss Costs: If any aspect of the cover is not constructed / stitched properly, the cover can become a total loss and unsellable. This can easily happen in the stitching process due to the extended length of this particular cover, the extra long pleat seam lines , top stiching etc. If any mistakes are made we SCRAP it and start over , so loss of material costs, labor etc must be figured into final retail pricing.

COOL RETRO BIKES SEAT COVER SUPERIOR PACKING