BestRest Products LLC is located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, about 15 miles north of Seattle. The business was started in 2000. Our first product was a BackRest designed for the BMW R1100GS. It was the "best" backrest on the market, so we named the company BestRest. From those humble beginnings we're grown leaps and bounds, and now have more than 100 products in our lineup.

Hi, we’re David and Judy Petersen, and we own and operate BestRest. We're happily, wonderfully, joyfully married, and we're also Best Friends. Marriage doesn't get any better than this.

When we're not busy with our duties at BestRest we own and operate a commercial cabinet shop that produces fixtures and casework for many of Seattle’s high-tech businesses.

David - I'm a member of the American Motorcycle Association, BMW Motorcycle Owners of America, and the Washington State BMW Riders.  I participate in several internet motorcycle mailing and news lists.

Judy - I'm not active in any motorcycle organizations, but I still love to ride. When the weather turns nice I'm pestering David to skip work and take me out on the bike. I love nothing more than spending the day on the back of the GS, seeing the wonderful country here in the Pacific Northwest.

Our most important affiliation is with the family of God. We're both dedicated Christians who willingly share the good news of Jesus Christ. God has changed our lives and He continues to smooth out the rough edges. We're not preachers, but we share the Gospel whenever we can, using gentle words and living out our faith in practical ways. If you notice something different about us, and the way we do business, it's because of the godly principles we embrace.

David - Standing beside my '96 BMW R1100GS, loaded up and ready to head out on one of our many adventures. I’m a life-long motorcyclist who started out riding a Honda 50 when I was five years old. From there I graduated to a series of small trail bikes, then full sized Kawasaki, Honda, and Suzuki street bikes.

My first BMW was a '89 R100RT, which Judy and I used to explore the roads of the Pacific Northwest.  We soon discovered we needed a bike that could better handle the two-up off-road adventures Judy and I enjoyed, so in '96 we got the BMW R1100GS. We found the GS to be an incredibly versatile motorcycle which has carried us wherever we dared to go (and some places we shouldn't have been!)

In 2002 we got a BMW F650GS. It was a great bike for solo riding and I took it on many great trips around the West. I used this bike to develop the F650GS CargoRest and FitKit.

I usually name every bike I own. We tried several names but none of them seemed to fit, so now we just call the bike "The 650". So far nobody's complained.
 

In April 2005 we got a R1200GS. We immediately went to work developing new products, and it's been the focus of our production efforts since then.

 

The R12GS is a wonderful machine that eclipses the performance and handling of the R1100GS and R1150GS. If you're thinking about getting an R1200GS, we support your decision. You'll fall in love with bike as soon as you "swing a leg."

 

That’s Judy aboard one of her trail bikes. Judy's been riding as a passenger aboard a BMW since 1993, when we first met. She’d never been on a motorcycle before, but now she loves it. She even comes up with excuses for us to get off on a two-wheeled adventure. Judy rides a Kawasaki Super Sherpa 250, a Suzuki DR200 trail bike, and a Suzuki DR250 trail bike. She's been eyeing my Suzuki DR350, but that's another story...