Description
The Captain’s Chair lets big kids and adults ride on the back of a GSD or HSD in comfort and style. Pair with the Sidekick Joyride Bars to create a complete passenger’s cabin for your favorite backseat driver. Use the same setup to carry crates and boxes—just remove the seat cushion.
The Captain’s Chair is a seating component of the Passenger System. Other accessories are required in order to safely carry passengers.
- Designed to fit one big kid* on the HSD when paired with the Sidekick Joyride Bars
- Designed to fit one older kid** or one adult passenger on the GSD when paired with the Sidekick Joyride Bars or the Sidekick Bars
- Extra-thick seat-cushion and reclined backrest for a comfortable ride
- Extended side rails for hand protection
- Offers space for crates and boxes, when paired with the Sidekick Joyride Bars
- Two bottle mounts for water bottles, coffee mugs, and locks
- Allows vertical parking of bike while installed
*Recommended age: 8 or above. Recommended height: 130 cm or above. The HSD’s rear rack load limit still applies. Check the Passenger System page for more information.
**Recommended age: 10 or above. Recommended height: 140 cm or above. Check the Passenger System page for more information.
Brand
Tern
In the fall of 2010, we established a team of people who knew a thing or two about how to make bikes. We saw an opportunity to form a new company and walk the hard path of starting anew.
Once committed, the first step was finding the right name and identity for our fledgling brand. There were about a dozen of us, brainstorming poolside, in the backyard of a Las Vegas rental after Interbike.
Our Art Director swung us back to a particularly inspiring quote of Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, from the film 180° South: “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. The solution, may be, for a lot of the world’s problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work.” The idea of turning around and moving forward to face the challenges head-on was compelling.
It meant retracing some steps, but we would know where to expect the bumps in the road. The discussion kept coming back to the word, turn and all of its connotations, but the word itself lacked personality.
With the beer and creativity flowing, a tangential discussion led us to names of migratory animals. After all, we wanted to change how people get around, so that category seemed a fitting source of inspiration. Serendipitously, an internet search found the world-champion of migratory animals to be the Arctic Tern.
Being a homophone was already a huge plus, but the nature of the bird is what helped solidify the choice. The Artic Tern has innate characteristics that embody the company we envision.
