Driver's Seat DT 300i

[Syl]

I was told on here that I would have to put on some miles to get used to the leg room. Well, I am getting used to that but one thing I can't get used to is the little bit of back rest on the driver's seat. It is slopped like this \ and I just can't get my butt comfortable to this slope! I am hoping to find out if I can get that slop out of there to a l slope.
Gonna check out the upholstery on it!

[Whisper]

You can probably have a pad fabricated.  But that slope is there so you can LEEEEEEEEAN back and chillax while cruising.  Maybe not on a PA highway, but somewhere smoother, like driving through the woods or in a strip mine.  LOL.

In FL we have access to some primo upholstery guys who specialize in boats - But have no problems with motorcycles. 

If you have a fair imagination, we could prolly find a way to mount a generic backrest between the driver and passenger seats.

[Syl]

Not so much wanting to lean back but to be able to slide all the way back on the seat sitting straight up this \ does not allow one to do so. I have three years apprenticship in upholstery but don't have the equipment to do what I think would be good. I want that bottom off that curve \ to be straightened out. Further this would help not to give one a back ache. You know when you sit on an easy chair and have a pillow or something behind your back and it slip's down. Well it fall's into the area where the bottom of the back rest meet's the back of the seat cushion and create's a curve making a person curve his back end in accordance. Try to sit up straight, forget it, the pillow or such is now in the way!

[jprestonian]

Syl, I feel your pain. My People 250's seat is stepped like that (for rider/passenger), and I'd like the cut to be back about 2". Even at 5'9", I am apparently a little taller than many Taiwanese.  ;)
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[Syl]

Yes J, Thanks, glad to hear I'm not the only one with a seat .... ummm...question! I haven't been out to the garage since I am heading to eliminate that curve\slope. I am 6' 1" but I want the DT 300i so much that am willing to sacrifice some things! I honestly haven't seen a seat with that sort of a curved back. If one wishes to back up a bit, they have to push and hold themselve's up on that curve. What do you think....if the bottom of that curve can be pushed back, one should get 2-3 inches of back-up ability? This would be ideal for me and I see for you also. Maybe some Toe slot's too where the feet go.!! Sound's like someone could get a Kymco customizing going! No wonder I take something for an occassional head-ache, too many crazy thought's and it never turn's off!

[Syl]

Just a short note J to back up the head-ache bit......I am very inquisitive and as a matter of fact was a U.F.O. Investigator with the Group out of Greensburg, PA for a while. To get into that stuff would be almost never ending. I never reported on anything unless I was at it first hand and I had several of them. I was also an investigator in the Army, Military Police and had the honorable duty of being a guard and protector for the late most decorated 2nd world war hero...Audie Murphy when he returned to Germany to make a movie. Just bragging a bit!

[axy]

Syl, I feel your pain. My People 250's seat is stepped like that (for rider/passenger), and I'd like the cut to be back about 2". Even at 5'9", I am apparently a little taller than many Taiwanese. 
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Also, Kymcos are made under assumption that driver=55 kg and passenger=55 kg.
This means that my People is fully loaded when I am alone on it and everything/everyone else is overkill.
This explains my experience with suspension bottoming out on P250S two up (and it seems I am the only one noticing that...)

[Hoolander2]

I can't think of any solution other than complete re-do of the seat.  Will that then leave enough room for a passenger?  Does that matter to you?   

[Syl]

Passenger space was not a priority with me on purchase and still isn't. many auto's today with plenty of leg room in the front don't have much leg room in the back. But, slide a seat forward a bit for those rear passenger's and they can fit and you have less room but manage for a short time. I feel the same about these unit's in discussion. have a seat capable of something similar, I am not taking my family out on it everyday! I looked at the underside of the seat and the way the metal is shaped it would probably be a difficult time in changing the driver seat. That slope is really not needed as it is...too much....my opinion.