Companion Bike Seats is a San Francisco-based company, founded by two life-long friends and biking enthusiasts. We believe riding a bike is more fun when you can bring a friend along. And it provides a safe, healthy, and green option for getting you and a friend around town. Now your bike can get you where you want to go, even when there are two of you!

Childhood Friends
Founders Paul O’Leary and Michael Babb have been steadfast friends since their pre-school years.  Both have been riding bikes most of their lives, never competitively, though they’ve served as the primary mode of transportation to school and to work for both Paul and Mike at various times in their lives.

International Inspiration
They founded the company in early 2011 based on a concept Paul had seen while on a study-abroad program in Thailand a couple of years earlier. There it was quite common for people to rig custom seats onto their bikes to allow another passenger to ride along. It seemed like a great idea to bring back to California, and with that, the Companion Bike Seat was born.

Early Beginnings
Soon after the company’s creation, Paul and Michael brought on-board Dan Cook, structural engineer extraordinaire, to aid in the design of the bike seat frame. The team then linked up with well-known manufacturer, Rick Hunter (Hunter Cycles) in order to construct their first working prototype. Companion Bikes Seats continues to work with local manufacturers here in the Bay Area and in Southern California to fulfill all of their prototyping and manufacturing needs.