SMP F30c: Black on Black

 A third saddle I recently finished for Tara with some matching handlebar tape. SMP F30c with a flowing grid pattern of perforations which follow the contour of the centre cut out.

Two Aliantes: Versus Evo Pull Up & Open Bison

 Tara sent a few saddles and some thick leathers to recover them. The first is a Fizik Versus Evo in waxed tan bovine leather which has a strong pull-up effect, my guess is that this leather should age very nicely. Through the centre channel panel is a fine perforated arrow. The second is a Fizik Aliante Open covered in a beautiful chocolate coloured shrunken bison leather. Both leathers were approximately 2.4mm thick, so the first step was to split them back to 1mm to be suitable for the purpose.

FiftyOne: Fizik Aliante: Signature Cycles

 For David's FiftyOne bike I custom recovered this Fizik Aliante saddle in black leather with a two colour perforated design picking up the two shades of orange on the frame. The saddle design features the outline of the FiftyOne Bikes logo in light orange perforations surrounded by concentric rows of darker orange perforations to fill the entire saddle surface. The grid perforated bar tape matches with the same colours. Thanks to David, Signature Cycles and FiftyOne Bikes.

Vanilla Classic: Fizik Aliante

 For Stan's Vanilla Classic I recovered this Aliante saddle with grid stripe perforations picking up the colours of the frame: cream, cyan, vanilla blue and racing red. The matching bar tape features the five petal vanilla flower-multi colour perforated design.

Burnished Tan Floral: SLR Superflow

 For Scott's new bike I have taken the Vanilla flower which features in Speedvagen's graphics and applied it in a multiple concentric pattern. The perforations on the saddle fade through three shades of pink. On the bar tape the perforations represent a repeat five petal flower in two shades of pink with accents of cyan in between.

Burnished Tan Romin: Passoni Rolling Wheels

 I recovered this S-Works Romin saddle for Rolling Wheels Cycles in China. It's in a vegetable tanned burnished tan colour leather with an adaptation of the Passoni Cycles wheel logo in a repeat perforated design across the whole saddle surface.

Hot Pink Romin

A saddle and bar tape for Anthony with his signature perforated design in hot pink referencing the light reflection from a carbon fibre weave. 

Baum: Blue Sky Aliante

Half perforated Fizik Aliante and matching grid perforated bar tape for this Blue Sky Baum Orbis.

Marbled Black Magic Enve

For Black Magic Paint in Portland I recently completed this Fizik Vento Argo saddle to finish off their marbled Enve MOG bicycle.

Dark Green Regal

 For Alexei's 80s vintage Italian Simoncini I refinished this Selle San Marco Regal in a very dark green leather with red highlights, chrome rivets and some matching custom bar tape.

Serk: Tan Power Mimic

 For Serk Cycles I recovered this Power Mimic saddle in tan kangaroo leather with perforations in a gentle green to match the bike's paint scheme, and made some coordinating bar tape. The bike is on schedule to show at the Handmade Bicycle Show in Melbourne next weekend.

About the Mimic feature on Specialized saddles: consisting of some very soft foam through the centre on the nose and within the middle recessed section. This soft foam is covered with a super thin and elastic membrane which allows the foam to retain its softness. The leather I use on the new cover does not have the same stretchy characteristic which means the soft bits are no longer so soft. Essentially it becomes a Power saddle with the middle recessed instead of 'cut-out'.

The last photo is a late addition to the bike. A two piece saddle bag with perforated detailing to match the saddle.

Giant Fleet SLR Whiskey

 For Allan's Giant TRC road bike I just finished this leather set in whiskey colour Kangaroo to compliment the tan wall tyres he's planning to install. The saddle is a Giant Fleet SLR and the perforated detail features the rich plum colour of the frame. We are still developing a compact saddle bag for Allan's bike. 

Tessellation: SMP Dynamic

 Happy birthday to Ian from Deb! Deb sent to me Ian's old worn out SMP Dynamic saddle and a few photos of his very special Italian Officina Battaglin road bike. I replaced the tired padding with some fresh EVA foam and developed a perforated pattern based on the graphic detailing of the frame's seat tube. Thanks Ian and Deb.

Selle Italia Lady

For Baum Cycles the Lady Gel Flow saddle has several seamed panels and features perforated diagonal stripes in titanium silver and Champagne gold. I always enjoy the wonderful challenge of figuring out the nicest panel configuration, taking into consideration; form, function, economy and aesthetics.

Fizik Aliante Fans

For Spider I recently refinished an old saddle I had previously custom covered for him. The old version had a black widow spider in the design, this one has a perforated design in the iconic Japanese fan pattern.

Fizik Aliante Bishop

For Sean's classic rim brake Bishop road bike. Black leather with dark purple and citrus yellow perforated detail and Bishop's logo raised at the centre back. 

Fizik Arione Bull

A fresh saddle and bar tape for Jurjen's Baum with Blue Sky detailing and a raised motif inspired by some of Picasso's bull fighting sketches. 

Vanilla Classic Fabrics

Here are two Fabric Scoop saddles with some flowery bar tape I recently completed for a couple of Speedvagen's cream and white Vanilla Classic road bikes. The flowery bar tape is a reference to the Vanilla flower logo featured on the saddles.

Orange Power: Baum Orbis

 Black leather with Orange Crush detailing for this Baum Orbis on the S-Works Power saddle and bar tape with twin row offset perforations.

Power Arc: Bear Claw Bastion

 The paint Scheme on John's Bastion was inspired by the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights), painted by Velocraft with an array of colour shift paints. Responding to this I picked up on some of the paint colours behind the perforations which were in a kind of graded grid pattern. Included on the S-Works Power Arc saddle and 2-piece saddle bag are some of the motifs from the frame.