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Is there a quick release backrest made for our bikes?
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Gary

Well, I never screwed my Cobin backrest in so it just slides out anytime I want.

same here

Check out http://www.fasteddysports.com/ you may find something you can use.

I've got this one , from "Grasshopper" on ebay. I'e had it on since Christmas. Backet mounts under the pillion, slides on & off easily. Couple of guys have them here.

me corbin one is staying right where it is , on me seat, luv that thing.

Fast Eddy sells these: web page ,very comfortable, at least mine is.

I guess I should have mentioned it’s for a passenger, I made the mistake of finally taking the wife for a ride and now she says she loved it I figured that, thats why I kept putting her off. The only complaint that she had was that she needed a backrest. I would prefer a quick release if they make them for our bikes,but if not well see about the other type.
Thanks
Gary

Oh man, if you got your wife into riding, that means you can do lots more riding, in my opinion. My wife doesn't like riding, and after 23 years of marriage, I figure that isn't gonna change. Buy whatever backrest works for her and go have some fun!

What you want is called a sissy bar.

ha,

its a question thats as old as time it's self. Officially no, I did think about trying to modify the OEM Triumph one, but it's $$$ to get wrong.

As far as I know \ thought about there are 2 options -

Fast eddy's http://www.fasteddysports.com/?page_id=3&product_id=413 is for the driver but I reckon if you moved it back a bolt hole or made one your self by doing this.

Buy a backrest only, Get a bit of flat bar and attached it to the two back bolts, then welded a bit of tubing or square bar (like in the fast eddy link), off setting it to fit the backrest and chrome it.

Its subtle enough not to notice. The tubing or square bar would have a bolt or clip that you could slide a sissy bar back rest into and easily slide back out, taking away the backrest and ugley look. I reckon it would take about an hour to make, get your local shop to weld it. The back rest should just slot in and fix in place.

Second option is the kuryakyn plug-n-play-universal-sissy-bar-mount. Another member of this site used this but said that it due to the angle the backrest tilted back to much

https://www.denniskirk.com/kuryakyn/plug-n-play-universal-sissy-bar-mount.p491548.prd

I solved the problem by buying a a Thunderbird Quick Release sissy bar and then buying the Thunderbird to fit it to.

Good luck with it though, I think option 1 making a modified version of fast eddy's is really easy. Buy that one and modify

Thanks for the reply.Will have to see if maybe I can modify one.