I've added the rear side guards and a rear rack to the bike. Is there a way to just remove a couple of bolts on each side to just remove the seat without removing all the added accessories and the rear rack, plus the side panels? The owners manual isn't specific enough for me. A pic is worth a 1000 words. I have a seat cover and pad I want to experiment with to see how they will fit, TIA.

 

There's only two bolts on the rear sides that hold the seat on.

The seat lifts up about an inch and slides back a couple inches to unlatch from the gas tank.

Depending on the rack it could block the seat from sliding back enough I guess.

Here's the service manual page on it: https://i.imgur.com/GqsKonO.png

 

I have full racks
and still only 2 bolts to remove and seat comes right off

 

Those are the racks I have, which 2 bolts do you remove?

 

the ones where the rear rsck ties into the side racks

or if you look at the seat
the back 2 bolts on the side of the seat that the racks connect together with

 

Ahh, I got it now. Thanks for the replies. Mike with the way those racks are mounted is there a simple way to access the batt on the left side w/o taking both side covers off and the racks? Only shortcut I have tried is to take out all 3 bolts on the left side, remove the left side rack, but when sneaking the plastic panel out from the left side rear rack mount the plastic gets scratched.

 

I do it the same as you
live with the scratches

 

Somehow I thought that would be the answer, some times people who've owned a bike for awhile know shortcuts a new bike owner doesn't. Thanks for the posts, until my next ?s arise................................