Well that wasn't hard. Though I may need to give my fingers an ice-bath now.

A couple hints for others trying to do this. The black leather made it extremely difficult to see the holes that were punched so I stretched each piece in order to open them up some. I also ran the needle through the holes several times to help open them up some:


And after breaking a needle I figured out that if I turned the leather to the outside edge (especially when doing the second pass of the stitching) I could get a much straighter line and avoid stressing the needle:


Done!


I have to admit that the honey brown looks much better than the black- but It wouldn't have gone with the color scheme of the bike, plus black won't show the tons of road grime that I encounter daily.