Back rest

[NM ROCKET]

Arrived and installed today. Try to post pics tomorrow.

 

[Indyrocket3]

Let us know how you like it.

 

[Mike Sands]

+1 for the Utopia. Here's a tip. If you are average height, like me, then you need to adjust the backrest so the stem angles forward quite a lot. This makes removing the single seat a real struggle, unless you back off the knurled adjuster nut, then you can flip the stem almost back over and the seat pops out easy. So that you can get the seat back adjusted exactly right each time, wrap some self-amalgamating tape round the exposed threads when you have got it set right. Then you can wind it down til it bites and you know it's spot on .
Tip 2 about the seat .... my key has been modified for the remote alarm, and it feels like it's going to twist apart when I use it to undo the seat. So I got a length of strimmer line, put a loop in one end and tied the other end tot the underseat catch. The loop sticks out by the right suspension, and is easy to pull.
General point about the Utopia - really reduces wrist ache from hanging on against the wind blast (flyscreen only). And when you open the throttle you get a shove in the back rather than a tug on the wrists.
Love it
Mike

 

[Navigator]

I am missing something on the Utophia back rest. How does it attach?

I have a Mustang seat w/backrest on my Electra Glide and a Corbin seat/backrest. Both have a mounting bracket to support the back rest.

I am not seeing how you can mount one of these without a proper bracket.

 

[Mike Sands]

if you have the standard rocket, the seat is in two parts (rider and pillion). The pillion seat fastens via a 'tongue' to 3 bolts in the fender under the riders seat. The Utopia uses the same bolts and sits on top of the pillion mounting tongue .... or if you don't want the pillion seat in place, it simply uses the same bolt holes in the fender. You can use it with the dual classic seat but you have to strip off the leather cover and modify the seat base I think.
Mike

 

[Navigator]

if you have the standard rocket, the seat is in two parts (rider and pillion). The pillion seat fastens via a 'tongue' to 3 bolts in the fender under the riders seat. The Utopia uses the same bolts and sits on top of the pillion mounting tongue .... or if you don't want the pillion seat in place, it simply uses the same bolt holes in the fender. You can use it with the dual classic seat but you have to strip off the leather cover and modify the seat base I think.
Mike

Got it. I was thinking it had some innovative way to attache it to the base. Now I understand what G-Man did.

 

[NM ROCKET]

Heres some pics