A Deep Dive into the Workshop: The True Craftsmanship of a BKS Cover
Behind the Scenes: How We Handcraft Your Motorcycle Seat Cover ✂️
On Bike Sellier's social media, you admire the final result: taut, aggressive seats with perfect grip and striking colors. But before a cover reaches your motorcycle, a lot happens in the Workshop.
Today, for the sake of transparency with the community, we open the doors to our noble craft of saddlery.
Step 1: Pattern Making, The Art of Silhouette
It all starts with a pattern. A motorcycle seat is a three-dimensional structure, often very complex. If you just lay a flat piece of fabric on it, it will look terrible: it will gap and wrinkle.
The secret to a perfectly fitted Bike Sellier cover lies at the very beginning: we work on our templates for hours, down to the millimeter, for each specific model (Rieju, KTM, Beta, Derbi, etc.). A cover is often composed of 5 to 8 distinct pieces that will need to be assembled.
Step 2: Inspection and Cutting of Premium Materials
Poor quality leather will crack in the first winter, and fake grip will crumble with the first rub of your jeans. It took time, but we sourced extremely expensive premium materials from specialized suppliers.
Once the roll of material is on the long workshop table (grained synthetic leather, technical grip, Alcantara), Mickaël and our craftsmen hand-cut or use assisted tools to cut each puzzle piece with goldsmith's precision. There is no margin for error.
Step 3: Custom Digital Embroidery
This is the stage where the cover becomes your cover. The upper parts of the cover pass between the needles of our digital embroidery machine. Whether it's "GASGAS", your team name, or fluorescent ribs: the needles strike the material and inject the high-quality colored threads you selected on our exclusive 3D configurator.
Step 4: Overcasting and Assembly with Industrial Machine
This is the strength stage. For a seat to withstand the pressure when you stretch it to secure it, the stitching must be unbreakable. We insert the material under the presser feet of heavy industrial sewing machines.
Our signature? Double-stitching and the use of unbreakable marine-grade threads. The saddler guides the layers of material (which can be several millimeters thick in total) to assemble the 3D puzzle.
Step 5: Quality Control and Shipping
The cover is ready. We inspect each seam edge to edge, the weave of the lettering, the absolute symmetry. If the cover does not meet our standards, it is disqualified.
Why our pricing has recently changed.
For a very long time, Bike Sellier offered introductory prices that did not account for the exact extent of the handmade work. Faced with severe inflation of quality raw materials in Europe, we had two possible paths:
1. The "Factory" choice: Relocate our production to Asia and use cheap leather to remain less expensive.
2. The "Artisan" choice: Keep the Workshop in France, respect our employees, continue to purchase professional-grade grip, sew with unbreakable marine thread, and therefore align with premium prices, respectful of the human reality of manual labor.
Our satisfaction rating, almost 5/5, firmly pushed us towards the second path. Thank you for your loyalty to craftsmanship!
