Utopia Products, Inc.
Custom Bar Installation
Instructions
Shown here on Shadow 1100 A.C.E.
(The following installation procedure, applies to all models below. After studying installation procedure, scroll down and click on your model to see bar installed on your seat base.)
General Custom Installation Instructions (applies to all models listed below)
- Remove rear seat from cycle, or entire seat if you have a one piece seat.
- Remove any seat brackets.
- Remove all staples holding on seat cover.
- Remove seat cover and foam, being careful not to tear cover or foam.
11. Install our Custom Backrest
Bar. Lay in place as shown in picture 1 or as shown in
link below for your model cycle. Mark through holes in bar
and drill 9/32" holes in seat base to line up with the holes in
Custom Bar. Install bolts through lock washer, flat washer,
seat base and screw tightly into Custom Bar.
2.
Mark center of foam in appropriate area, by lining up foam along
side seat base with bar now installed. Cut slit in foam about 1 1/2"
wide, all the way through the bottom of foam, as shown in picture 2.
3. Slide foam over installed
bar, as shown in picture 3. Tube should be close to level
with the surface of foam. 
4. Install cover completely.
Do not cut slit in cover till completely installed.
Feel for tube,
under cover, as shown in picture 4. 
.5.
Carefully make a slit to allow it to come through the now installed cover,
as shown in picture 5. "DO NOT CUT ANY THREADS WHERE COVER IS SEWN
TOGETHER." Cut no wider than necessary.
6. Bend and shape the
Peel and Stick Boot and install, as shown in picture 6.
- Install backrest to tube with bolt provided.
- Install seats, adjust backrest for comfort, and "Take a Ride!"
