Passenger seat help

[DropOfDios]

Grace and love to my Trail 125 family

I’ve reached out to the seller but in the meanwhile asking my Trail125 family for extra insight while I wait since it didn’t come with instructions

I’m installing a rear seat to a rear rack but I don’t know if I’m missing something? How do I get the seat to stay?

My first time ever doing something like this, all help is appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[dmonkey]

The bolt spacing on the bottom of that seat looks to match the pattern of the M6 holes in the OEM carrier, so the intent may have been for you to set the pillion seat on the carrier, feed the studs through from under the carrier, and then put a nut on the end. Something that doesn't add up is that it looks like they only provided two studs, when four bolts would have made more sense, so I could be wrong about that.

What brand is the seat?

Since you have an aftermarket rear rack, I think you could use those two metal brackets they provided, on the underside of the rear carrier, and then feed bolts up through them to end up with a stack of seat, carrier, bracket. That's a common way to attach seats to a rear carrier on motorcycles and bicycles. I have a Yamaha Omaha Trail moped where the pillion seat is attached that way, and here's a photo of the one from my Lectric XP 3.0 ebike. You can see how the brackets are used to brace the seat against a rack from underneath.

 

[DropOfDios]

I got it done Mr. Dmonkey! I screwed the “screw” into the seat holes than put a nut, the bracket goes side ways to grip into the underside tubes of the rack than another nut to lock it in!

The seats are from the Masaru Hamaguchi x Ganesha collab. You were right in that the rear seat is also compatible with the stock rear carrier, as per their website

 

[dmonkey]

Very nice! One thing you may want to consider is putting some material, old inner tube or electrical tape, between the rack and bracket so the metal on metal doesn't rub through paint.

 

[stickthefigure]

I try and tell myself not to look at aftermarket racks because it won't make that much of a difference but man...it sure does look good....

 

[DropOfDios]

I try and tell myself not to look at aftermarket racks because it won't make that much of a difference but man...it sure does look good....

According to Ganesha these are lighter and longer and so far it’s true. It’s also thinner on the side so it’ll be good for a passenger, my opinion… Do it!