Sunday 23 December 2012

CBD Monogram Flite



Tired old Flite saddle recovered for City Bike Depot in Sydney featuring their monogram style logo in place of the Selle Italia logos. Raised de-boss with perforations to reveal the orange underneath.
 
 

Velo Bontranger MTB Saddle - Cordura




Velo x Bontrager mountain bike saddle recovered in a combination of red Cordura (strong polyamide / nylon stuff) and black kangaroo leather. Cut on the bias the woven Cordura is surprisingly easy to stretch and mould to shape.
  

Thursday 20 December 2012

SLR Flash Gordon

 

Black and Pink Flite



Marc's modern Flite with a variation of the speedy dots tapering towards the front end. Black kangaroo with pink backed perforations for Marc's TT bike.

 

Kangaroo Wrapped Bars



Wrapping Steve's track drops with perforated kangaroo leather. Stitched in black using a baseball style stitch pattern. Getting the leather to the correct width was not easy because of the variations in bar diameter throughout. Grey the cat hangs out with me in the studio on top of his step ladder.
 
 
 

Sunday 16 December 2012

Arione Italian Champ



Italian national champion stripes perforated into this Fizik Arione.

 
 

Arione Lugged Detail



MP's second Arione CX Tri saddle recover also to compliment the paintwork on his second Llewellyn bike. The burgundy coloured kid leather is perforated to reveal silver highlights.


 
 

Wednesday 12 December 2012

White and Red Tape: Creux



New bar tape for Van at Creux Cycling.
 
 
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Hot Pink Pinarello Mantra



Another Mantra for Hong Kong, this time for Stu's Pinarello. Black kangaroo with hot pink behind perforations.



Gel Flow: Black and Pale Blue



Selle Italia Gel Flow saddle in black kangaroo with 'duck egg blue' backed perforations. For DJ's new Baum.
 

Black and Red Bartape



Double stitched bar tape with contrast backed perforations for CJ in Hobart.

Yellow Mantra



Selle San Marco Mantra for Isaac is Singapore.

Sunday 9 December 2012

Subtle SMP: Black and Blue



Mitch's SMP recovered in Kangaroo with pale blue punched pattern in Casino style.

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Benson Caymano: Black Patent



Gayle's black patent leather recover on a San Marco Caymano. For her custom steel gloss black Benson. David Benson builds beautiful lugless steel frames in Auckland, NZ. There one or two gracing the roads and velodromes of Melbourne.