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If you're actually asking if it's to the letter allowed, then no. Loose items must be secured. There's no allowance to add additional structures for securing anything. Passengers and Drivers are required to be helmeted and Seat-Belted. someone laying down in the back is not seat belted.
Whether you're gonna get protested? Depends on the guys you run with, whether they care, whether they know to protest, or whether they feel like dealing with protesting *you*.
Run with a passenger laying down in the backseat? now you're also risking pissing off the Solo Safety Steward who *can* boot you. No need for formal protests at all.
Can a passenger be sitting upright in the back seat? in a Twin, yes. In an old car without seat belts in the rear? no. Also, at a local yes, at an actual tour no.
whether this whole thing makes sense in theory, in practice, or matters, dunno. It would be very hard to quantify results. But you're supposed to have fun, if this makes you have more fun, go for it. Within the rules. Maybe just start with running more gas, easy peasy. Or running with the spare in.
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