Rhode Gear / Co Pilot Bike Seat

[Tartanmam]

Hello, not sure if this is the best place to ask this but does anyone have one of these bike seats? I've bought one from ebay but can't seem to fit it properly. I've tried to follow all the instructions but it seems to wobble a bit from side to side and there is a black rubber tube at the back which i can't work out what to do with, can anyone help please?

(in my defence if i had the box or a picture of the seat attached to a bike i might be able to work it out, my mum had a go as well and we both couldn't figure it out)

Thanks

We have this seat. It does wobble a bit, maybe, but not much.

1. it must be attached to a particular sort of bike rack

2. the tongue bit at the front slides through and locks onto the rack.

3. The strap goes around your bike post

4. The black rubber tube locks into a white thing ... hard to explain, and I haven't done it for ages, but it also helps lock it on.

Sorry, I am very tired and too tired to go downstairs and fiddle with our seat. If nobody comes on with useful information by tomorrow, I will fill in #1 and #4 more usefully.

We have a co-pilot - is really solid if you attach properly.

I echo NQC but to expand on the last point - the rubbertubey thing on the back.....

Push the grey flap down so you can slot the tube in so that it is jammed upwards between the seat and the flappy thing.

Just read that back - how crap am I at describing this...!

Does this help in anyway, shape or form????

Oh by the way, we bought ours from a local bike shop and they fitted the rack to our bikes (mine and DH') so we can both take our daughter out. May be worth trying if you can't figure it out... It has to be a specific rack to slide seat onto.

We have the proper bike rack (blackburn something or other), the front is totally fine, locked onto the rack and strapped around the post. The seat doesn't move at all forwards and backwards just side to side.

I think i've definitly missed something with the black rubber tube, the plastic bit of the seat is 'clicked' onto the rach but the black rubber bit is just hanging about. If you could have a look tomorrow that would be brilliant i know i'm probably missing something really simple.

Thanks

sorry x posts,

i think i know what you mean, your description makes sense to me.

Our local bike shop doesn't stock this make so i was a bit reluctant to take it there but if all else fails i will they are usually pretty good.

Just asked DH for the name of the bike rack and he pointed me in the direction of this website.

The link below is the seat that we have and it tells you which rack to use.

www.cyclestore.co.uk/productDetails.asp?productID=4475&categoryID=76

If this isn't your seat, then you could search for yours too, it may give you some info....

Munchkinmum

Ok, I can't get you a pic of the seat on the bike, as the only bike this seat goes on isn't home. But here are pictures of the black thing in use. First shot from the side, second from the back. The last raised side-to-side bar on the rack goes right after the black thing, I think, so this locks it into place at the back.

Ooooh, I forgot the bit of the fitting I always flub - there are two bits of the seat that you slide up the rack, and they go around the side front-to-back edge bars of the rack. Without this, the seat is risibly wobbly, more like falling off. You're probably already doing this?

Thanks NQC, thats what i had missed, the bits that slide up either side of the rack (once you know it seems so obvious).

Thanks again for all your help, now just got to hope it stays dry enough to get out on it.