Solo Seat?

Planned on removing the passenger seat and doing the solo thing?  Not so fast.  The designers at Kawasaki clearly didn't have solo riders in mind when they designed the seat bracket system on the 1700 Classic.  It would be one thing if they offered a solo seat, but here we are, three years later, and there's no solo seat available.

Not only is there a large bracket left exposed (in addition to the extensions of the fender rails) if you remove the passenger seat, but it's actually the passenger seat being locked into place that keeps the driver seat locked (held, really) in place.

I wonder if it'd be possible to fit the Vaquero seat...

Went and had a look at some Vaquero images and microfiche online.  The Vaquero seat wouldn't be a direct bolt-on, but I think it'd be possible to fashion it to work.  The Vaquero seat's rear bracket appears to be further forward than that of the Classic (and accordingly the bracket on the bike, itself, is further forward than that of the Classic).  Getting the Vaquero seat to fit would involve either (1) moving my bike's rear seat latch assembly forward or; (2) moving the bracket on the Vaquero seat further back.