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My HT, winter road bike and fixed all use the same (type of) saddle: Selle Italia Oktavia. The HT saddle is badly scuffed, but works fine. The winter bike and fixed saddles both have tears/worn areas (where the leather is worn away).
I like the shape of the saddles, but want to fix them so the covers don't wear any more holes in my shorts.
Anyone here recovered a saddle? If so
*what material (leather?)
*techniqie
*how'd you ensure it was waterproof?
Cheers
Quite a common topic over on Retrobike - I did it many years ago with some upholstery leather I got from a sofa repair place glued on with araldite. Key is to get the old leather off without damaging the padding.
I used loads of big bulldog clips to hold the leather tight while the glue dried - worked brilliantly for six months but the rails bent so it went in the bin.
recently did an old sdg bel-air.
evo-stik contact adhesive and an old pair of jeans, result - denim saddle. looks very 80's and now it's wearing well. the evo-stik does a pretty good job of waterproofing the denim, so it hasn't been as bad as I thought.
It's pretty easy to do. If/when I did/do another I would find an offcut of leather and do it with that.
Cheers both. Will wander over to retrobike.... 🙂