Patent ID: 7604292

Claim:
A comfort system for an open air vehicle having at least two wheels, a front and a rear, the comfort system comprising: a seat with a lumbar support mounted proximate a rear portion of the seat, the lumbar support comprising a padded lumbar frame for supporting a rider's back, means for adjusting a position of the lumbar support selectively upward and downward, wherein the means for adjusting comprises: i) a mounting bracket attached at one end to the seat and having another end; ii) a body connected to the other end of the mounting bracket, the body having a base section and two arms extending from the base section, and having a rod extending between the two arms; iii) a series of parallel members fixed to a back of the padded lumbar frame and having aligned sets of notches therein, each set of notches being vertically spaced from a first lowest set to a last topmost set; and iv) a pair of parallel rails fixed to the back of the padded lumbar frame, and the two arms having engagement means proximate their free ends for being movably engaged with the rails to thereby move with respect to the rails, and whereby a height of the padded lumbar support above the seat may be adjusted by moving the engagement means up and down with respect to the rails and thereby moving the rod into and out of engagement with selective ones of the sets of notches.