I almost khatfull'd a saddle. I've got an old Ross womens 10-speed with cool blue-to-white fade in the bar wraps that I thought would look more awesome than Crockett & Tubbs while sporting a white saddle.



The test subject came from a dept. store bike that had been stored outside for many years. The foam was water-logged and when I attempted to remove the cover from the foam, the foam seperated from the plastic of the saddle base.



the first thing I did was completly remove the foam and stomp on it to remove the water trapped within. Then I placed it on the dehumidifier in my basement for a couple of days to dry it out. I tried to remove the old cover from the foam, but it was tearing all apart, so I decided to try to attach the vinyl over the existing old cover since it was mainly smooth except for the rather large tear in the back.



cut a piece of vinyl to fit



sprayed on the glue and let it sit to get tacky



The end result looks kinda ok from the top, but my choice of vinyl was bad. This was felt-backed or backed with something similar, the only cloth vinyl I saw at the store was marine cloth backed, so I thought I'd try this one. A mistake, the grain was shallow and I scuffed it up a bit when I attached the saddle mounting hardware



Here's the underside compaired to the finish of another saddle. I didn't like the look of white on a black plastic base. Kinda ok from the topside, not so much from below.

Over all, it didn't work, whether it was trying to put a new cover over the old one, or a bad choice of cheap vinyl, inexperience trying to do this, or a combination of all three. For an unbiased opinion I placed this saddle on the bike I had intended it for along with an old blue plastic saddle and asked my wife which one she liked best. She said to go with the old blue one, and that the white looked like cheap nasty old golf shoes.

What can I say, he makes it look easy.