A backrest from a chopping board

A very simple project that took less than 1 hour/2 beers to complete. (including going to Tesco for the board!)

The idea is adaptable to suit most buggy types, and it has saved me having to develop stomach muscles!

 

backrest.jpg (99587 bytes) The backrest is made from a plastic chopping board from the local supermarket.  This pic shows the original whole chopping board; the pic below shows it after it has been cut down to a more useful size with a hacksaw.  I drilled holes at the base, making them longer by 'waggling' the drill bit about, and on both sides near the top.  A length of 25mm webbing is tied off on one side rail.  It is then fed up, through one of the side slots near the top of the board, across the back of the board then back through the other slot and down to the other side rail.
Wideaxle1.jpg (80514 bytes) A piece of 25mm webbing is looped through each of the slots at the base, leaving enough slack so that they can be slid along the back bar.  This pic shows the backrest folded down and the 2 loops around the back bar can be seen clearly.
backfix1.jpg (134492 bytes) I used the pieces of pipe foam to hold the backrest up and make it easier to get into the buggy.  They got in the way when I needed to fold the rest down to transport the buggy, so I took them off and made the loops around the frame tighter so the rest stays up on its own.
underbug.jpg (132317 bytes) I found that when leaning against the back rest, the webbing tied to the side rails was pulling on the seat webbing straps and was starting to damage the seat stitching.  I put another piece of webbing (green) from the loop around the side rail, around the front fork (via a piece of yellow rope) and back to the loop on the other side rail.  By tensioning the green webbing, I can now adjust the angle of the backrest.
harness4.jpg (65917 bytes) This is it in use, before it was cut down to the smaller size seen above.