Backrest Info Help
 

Legally the only way my children can ride with me is if I have a backrest. I really do not want to buy a Corbin or Givi, so is there anything like the Stealth Backrest for the K1200RS?

http://piratesk12site.net/Stealth.htm

Thanks for any help
Hoots

Haven't seen one. Don't see much of an option, as far as something legal goes, other than the Corbin.

I was at the Detroit bike show Sunday and I saw the coolest thing on a Buell no less. It was a rotatable backrest that would fold flat forward when not in use and when rotated backward it formed a luggage rack for a tail bag! It was mde out of some type of rubber with probably a metal inner structure.

A question I was going to post is I have a Top of the Rack rack for my RT and wondered if there's any way to attatch it to an S tail section, that way a backrest could be attatched to it.

I built a homebrew for my wife's comfort (to no avail, her idea of a streetbike that she'll put her cute little tush on is a barcalounger, oops, goldwing..ain't happening).
It turned out OK..I built it uot of 6061 1/4"X1 al-you-minium bar stock, stainless screwed-together and powdercoated.
I DID have to drill the little grabrail thingie under the cowling and the tubing that supports it to install some 1/4X20 stainless allthread, but you couldn't see it when the rest was installed.
I JUST was about to cut it up for another project last night. If you're interested, I'll see if all the pieces are there and bolt it up for a picture....

Yes shoot us a pic!

Pics, pics, pics!!!! We need pics!!!

Maybe the BuddyBelt will help?

http://www.buddybelt.com/images/Action/Bill_Dad2_a.jpg

http://www.buddybelt.com/

That buddy belt seems kind of stupid. if the passanger slips or falls off for any reason they yank you off the bike too or make you crash. not to mention if you crash and go rolling youd probably crush the poor kid. Without it youd just feel a wobble and wonder what you hit until you look in your mirrors. I dont like the idea of being tied to anything on my bike.

I've been trying to figure out a way to make my cowl flip up into a backrest when I have a passanger and back down when I dont. I'm having trouble finding a place to mount any kind of hinge.