so since Indiana weather decided to shit the bed and go back to freezing and snow for like 2 days I got stuck inside. Basically this week I bolted the cross bar for the seat decided to scrap the springed seat and flush mount it...in a saving grace to my ass I bolted two 1.25" robber stoppers to the cross bar with some simple bolts and locking nuts. Then built my seat, 4 layers of yoga mat foam then shaved it with a knife then a jig saw, the pleather from the stock vt600 seat a shit ton of spray glue and about 40 rivets. Marked center on the nose of the seat and spaced the rivets 1.25" apart and .5" in, drilled through replaced the carriage bolts and then glued the metal and foam and just built it up shaved it marked my pleather cut about 2.5" outside of my line and began on the center rivet then the back and side to side working opposite sides to stretch it properly, it turned out pretty slick for not spending anything on it. That's right for-motherfuckin-free. The rubber washers cost about .60 each and the bolts all together may have been $2.5 at max.