Welcome to the forum and congrats on your new bike! Good luck with everything, sounds like everyone else pretty much covered all your questions.

 

I really prefixed all yalls help seriously. I have a 2006

 

Yes just a pic of it opened would be nice

 

Ok I didnt get to take one before i left so I will have to take one when I get home tomorrow

 

Sorry about the wait. it has been a long day. anyway i snapped a few pictures. hopefully they are good enough. ignore the yellow wire over the latch btw. the previous owner wired led tail lights and ran the wires weird.

well that is what i was going to submit but photobucket messed up and it is stuck half way through upload and now wont load for me at all..

 

Oh ok thank u very much I will patiently be waiting

 

Sorry about the lighting. I didnt feel like opening the garage door. hope this helps some. let me know if I can help

EDIT: Ignore that nasty crack in my seat cowel

 

Hey Karl urs looks like it's a different seat than mine. I got the banana seat. Should it open the same way?

 

oops must have skipped over that part. my bad. it should still open back side up first. But the latch is in the middle of the seat i believe. Try having someone press down as hard as they can in the middle of the seat and while they are pushing unlock the seat and hold the key in the unlock position. Thats how most people I have seen get it unstuck

 

Nana seats I think pull up and back at the same time...not really sure as I have a split tail. A friend of mine has a nana tail, but I've never personally opened it...I know it has hooks in the middle that make it take a little more effort to remove than the split tail. Granted, once it's open the whole trunk area is available for use...while a split has the tail fairing to contend with.