Fibreglass Cafe Seat Build

I then moved on to putting the foam on the seat pan. For the foam I'm using a large kneeling pad I picked up at Princess Auto. It seems dense enough and is comfortable, but I won't really know how it is until I actually ride the bike. If it's not suitable I'll find something else.

I decided to cut two separate pieces; one for the horizontal part of the seat and one for the seat back. I used 3M Hi-Strength 90 Spray Adhesive to stick the foam to the pan and it worked great. I don't have many pics of the process but here is one where I have the foam glued to the pan.

In the pic above is my tool of choice to shape the foam after it's all glued on: an angle grinder with a sanding disc.

Here are a couple more showing the two pieces glued on and a rough shape cut out.

After a lot sanding with the grinder (and a HUGE mess of black dust in the garage) I got a final shape that I was happy with. Here's a pic of the uncovered pan on the bike.

Since I had the cushion part of the seat straightened away and wouldn't have to be doing any more test fittings I moved on to painting. I started by laying a base coat of Dupli-Color Dark Shadow Gray (T299). This is my first time using Dupli-Color for finish type work. I've used their high temp stuff for some of the exhaust pipes on my car before but never where a good finish was required. I normally like using Tremclad but I couldn't get the colours that I wanted. I must say, so far I'm please with the Dupli-Color. It sprays on nice and drys pretty fast. Here are a couple of pics of the base colour:

Next up was stripes. This being my first time with stripes I wasn't sure how they would turn out. I got some good advise from some of you on getting them straight and symmetrical, thanks for the tips. They came out pretty decent, not perfect, but I'm please especially for my first time. These pics show the stripes but I still need to wetsand and apply the clear coat. I should get this done sometime this week. I also put the tail light lens on to see how it looked.

Last night I wet sanded the seat and applied a few coats of clear coat. Tonight I'll wet sand that and buff it out. Just need to cover the cushion and I should be done. I'll post some pics of the finished product then. Hopefully the rest of the bike will be complete soon too so I can get a pic of the complete bike.

Nice work! Commin along nicely.