I do what I must to keep you from being banned.

 

Example is this.. Factory Effex Universal All Grip Seat Cover. About 30 dollars, install it with a staple gun a little blood sweat and beer.

 

Buy anti slip matting from the cheapest place you can find (ebay, budget shops). In the UK you can get a roll in poundland for... unsurprisingly, £1.

Also Amazon:

Staple it to the underside of your seat and your chica will stay put.

 

Donny, you beat me to it! I should have posted last night, but thought, naaaaa, I'll do it at work tomorrow, and there you were stealing my thunder! Nice work and Thank You! Although I came to the same conclusion yesterday after finding a product from your own country called Triboseat. <--- click it to see their site, but here is a pic of what it woudld look like, not too bad...



So at first I was pretty stoked, because since I posted this I had researched everything from a Corbin rear Seat ($300ish), professional re-upholstering ($100+), home re-upholstering (cheaper, but would look it!), to using the grippy motocross seat covers (have to fashion one myself, same effect as home re-upholstering)...

So this solution looked relatively great by comparison! And semi permenant so I don't have to damage my existing seat. But after reading a review saying it could wear out or tear kind of easily I thought, man, it's 20 bucks, a long wait for it to ship from England, and if it tears then what? Another 20 bucks and long wait?

So in researching it further I was looking at videos and pictures and I felt like I recognized the material... here is a close up of it...



Then it hit me... and I rush down to my garage, look in the bottom drawer of my tool box and find the left over tool drawer liner that I had in there... and sure enough...



It looks almost exactly the same... I lay a piece on my rear seat, put pressure on it with just my hand and tried to slide it... and just as Donny put it... it stayed put!

So I already own enough to make about 5 of these covers and if I run out I can just go to sears and buy another 18 inch by 12 ft roll for a whopping 15 bucks! Whoo hoo!

So it may not have the label, and it may not have the fancy edging (that is hidden under the seat anyways), but it will definitely do the trick!

I will post pictures of my acutal installation and a note on how well it worked...

So I had to still post my spiel becuase I was excited about it... but again, thanks Donny... you may have stole my thunder, but if I hadn't found the same thing 12 hours earlier you would have totally saved me! So you still get the credit

 

So I took a shot at this...

There is no picture, but first I cut the mat in the shape of the back seat but large enough so that it would fold about a half inch or more under the seat...

Second I used the "shoelace" method to secure the mat to the seat. Although I didn't use a shoelace I used a piece of Sewing elastic. That way there would be some "give" and less chance of tearing the material where it's laced through.



Lastly I had overlapped the strap on the seat by about half the width of the strap, so I could tuck the edge of the material under the strap to give it a clean finished look... Here are the results:





Haven't tested it out yet... hoping for a ride tonight after work... weather permitting

 

Looks Awesome!

 

That actually looks really cool. Here's an interesting thing to think about, though. I think providing too much grip for rider or passenger can be detrimental. I personally use a cleaner/ polish on my seat just to keep it clean and conditioned (minimize sun damage etc) and I like the way it feels after I use it, kind of slippery but not so much that I'm sliding in to the tank all the time. I need to move around on the bike when I ride, I think some people plant it and forget about it but for whatever reason I move around a lot. I've had sticky seats in the past and to be honest I felt they were really uncomfortable, I had to raise my butt completely off the seat to reposition which is fine on the highway but not in corners so much. I know we're talking about a passenger here (so a lot of what I'm saying is negated) but just thought I'd share an idea. Maybe she will just get used to the slippery feeling? Anyway, good job on the seat! Let us know how it functions!

 

Hey Matt,

I do think for the rider you are totally right... but it's my impression (from reading and from actually doing it) that the more the passenger is "one with the bike" the easier it is... Maybe that is just for my girlfriend and I as newbies to two up riding. It's possible that people with more experience could benefit from the passenger playing a more active role. I honestly don't know. For now I do better when she isn't moving around trying to adjust her seating position after sliding a little. Fingers are crossed this helps solve that!

Thanks to both you and JeffJones for the compliments though, I will definitley update if it works as good as it looks

 

It looks good. I hope it works out for her.

My gut tells me that it will stretch and tear when you ride on it. You have to let us know how it works out.

I used to ride with a girlfriend of mine quite a bit. She wore jeans on the stock seat and never mentioned it being too slippery. We used to do some really aggressive riding too...

 

I know what you mean, I had that thought too... but the more I considered it, there are two things that are helping me be hopeful that won't happen.

One, the material itself is not as stretchy as it would appear in the photos... it's actually like its a web of something relatively strong that is just dipped in whatever the antislip coating is.

Two, since it's not just sticking to one surface... it will be gripping the passenger AND also the seat itself on the other side, it shouldn't really slide or move at all... and if it doesn't slide or move, then I'm hopeful it won't be stressed enough to tear... I believe I could even just lay a loose piece of this stuff on the seat and have her just sit on it and we'd get the same results. This way it just looks better.

Either way I am excited to find out... it's like an experiement! And honestly, even if it lasted 20 rides and I had to make another one, that would be completly acceptable. I honestly don't see us getting too "aggressive" two up... we'll save the aggressive rides for when she has her own bike one day

Thanks for the kudos on appearance! Apparently I can always fall back on "at least it didn't look like crap!"