Update to my lowering situation.
After many months of pondering the issue, a couple of days ago I took the bull by the horns. I removed the seat took off the cover and the foam (all one piece) by removing the many staples holding it together. Then I used a heat gun and a piece of 2x4 and heated up the plastic seat base at the front where the big hump is, and flattened out the hump a bit. I also heated the sides of the front hump and narrowed it a little bit. Re-stapled the cover back on , and reinstalled the seat. When looking at the bike you can not tell anything has been done to it. But when you sit on it you really can tell the difference. The flattening out of the hump allows the seat foam to compress more at the front. My wife took the People S250 around the block, this is her first time riding it as she finally felt she could come close enough to flat footing it. I thought that my procedure might have stopped me from being able to put a helmet in the under seat storage but the helmet still fits. All you see from the inside is the top of the hump is flattened in a little. The whole thing was completed in under an hour and a half, including going to Home Depot to buy a new staple gun.
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