We named the company after the thing that makes it work
Cut one of our cushions open and the name explains itself. Everything Honie does comes out of one shape, and bees got there first.
Six sides, hundreds of times over
The gel inside a Honie cushion is not a slab. It is a grid of hundreds of six-sided cells, open at the top and bottom, each one flexing on its own under load.
There is a reason nature settles on that shape. A hexagonal grid carries more weight with less material than any other arrangement, shares that weight sideways across the whole structure instead of letting it pile up in one spot, and leaves open channels for air to pass straight through.
Every claim we make comes out of that one geometry. Pressure spread instead of concentrated. Air moving instead of trapped. Support that returns instead of collapsing. It is not a feature list. It is one idea, doing four jobs at once.
The market is full of cushions that quit early
Search for a seat cushion and you will find hundreds. Most of them are the same thing under different names, and most of them are finished inside a season.
Foam packs down. It feels right for a fortnight, then compresses under the same three contact points every day until it stops rebounding at all. What you are left with is the hard board that started the problem, with a cover on it.
Air cushions move the problem rather than solving it. They shift the load somewhere else, they need topping up, and one puncture ends them on the roadside.
Cheap gel is worse than either. Thin gel poured into a flat sheet has no structure to hold, so it squashes out to the sides and leaves nothing under the place it was supposed to protect.
We went through all three before landing here. Gel with a honeycomb structure behind it was the only thing still doing its job a year in - and that is the only test that counts.
A cushion that is comfortable on day one is easy. One that is the same on day four hundred is the whole job.
Two cushions, done properly
We do not make a range. We make a small number of things and keep improving them.
The Rider Cushion is the one we are known for: a teardrop gel pad with a relief channel running front to back so the load never settles on your tailbone. It straps to any motorcycle seat in about thirty seconds, and it takes road shock and engine vibration before either reaches your spine.
The Passenger Cushion does the same job on the pillion seat, where the padding is usually thinner and the ride is usually worse.
That is the whole catalogue. We would rather be the best answer to one question than an average answer to ten.
British, and built for British roads
Honie is a British business based in London. Our customers are UK riders on UK roads - A-roads and B-roads, the Dales, the Peaks, the Highlands, the long way home on a Sunday.
That is who everything here is written for, and it is why the fit list, the delivery times and the guarantee are all set up around riders in this country rather than somewhere else.
We answer our own emails. If something is not right, you are talking to the people who made it.