Pillion wanted in Tauranga...

**CookMySock** · 30th May 2009, 06:00

Originally Posted by vindy500

just get some one on the back already, i was taking my girlfriend as pillion on my learners

Yup. It's not hard.

Keep your feet firmly planted and hands on the bars when loading and unloading. Always load from the left. Move your weight to your right-side foot and gesture to them to stand on the footpeg and swing a leg over. Be ready for the weight to move to your left foot, and then your right foot again. Don't load on slippery surfaces, ie gravel.

Explain that you are just learning to pillion people, so help me out a bit.

Ask them to sit really really still while you are doing slow speed roundabouts and corners and stuff, as it's, um, complex.

Invite them to wriggle a bit and get comfy on straight pieces of road. The bike will weave about about, somewhat like strong wind, and just a little bar pressure is all thats needed to regulate it.

Please sit still in corners, and look past my helmet around the inside of the corner. Don't lean out, just move your helmet so you can see the road ahead, but on the inside of the corner, not the outside.. or else stare at the back of my head.. (not very interesting!)

Slow down so you are well inside your comfort zone. That way you have plenty in reserve if they decide to pull out their puck in the middle of a corner, or do up their shoelaces or something.

Remember, you are both learning, so be patient with each other.

Steve

**hedgier1** · 30th May 2009, 07:13

Just tell the pillion to act like a backpack. Where ever you go they go. And thats all. You will get used to it pretty quickly. My wife does that and she loves the bike. Mind you she falls asleep on the way to auckland as a pillion.