Pregnancy (and bikes)

**Skunk** · 16th July 2006, 22:35

I knew a woman who rode to hospital to give birth.
Yes, she knew it was coming. That's why she rode.

**oldrider** · 16th July 2006, 23:15

I had an old BSA that I reckon was pregnant.
Not guilty myself, it was fucked long before I got it!

**Nicksta** · 16th July 2006, 23:29

I think if I get pregnant, i'll ride till my specialist tells me i shouldnt.....
thanks for the thread Quartida.... interesting thoughts...

**Quartida** · 16th July 2006, 23:47

Originally Posted by Skunk

I knew a woman who rode to hospital to give birth.
Yes, she knew it was coming. That's why she rode.

Wow. You'd think she'd have enough on her mind without having to worry about cages not indicating, blind spots etc. etc. That's pretty impressive. Not sure that I'd want to have contractions on the back of a bike though.

Bloody hell...if I was going into labour everyone around me would be at my beck and call until they got me safe and sound to the hospital.
"I'm having the baby. YOU can drive."

**Beemer** · 17th July 2006, 10:10

Originally Posted by MrPeanut

Bad idea.

If you're talking about getting pregnant in the first place, I totally agree with you - I hate kids!

I know a woman from WIMA who rode all through her pregnancies. Used to unlace her leather pants so she could still wear them! As she said, it's not an illness.

I personally can't imagine anything worse than trying to ride the Goose while pregnant - you'd need a cruiser or something. After all, look at all the fat guys who ride Harleys - must be the same as being pregnant!

**Quartida** · 17th July 2006, 11:10

Originally Posted by Beemer

I personally can't imagine anything worse than trying to ride the Goose while pregnant - you'd need a cruiser or something. After all, look at all the fat guys who ride Harleys - must be the same as being pregnant!

Haha, I never thought of that.

It's true though...you'd be hard pressed to find a sportbike that you could ride to full term.

**kickingzebra** · 17th July 2006, 18:45

When I asked our doctor about riding with her preggers, he said the old remedy to induce birth was get the woman to take a tablespoon of castor oil, have sex, then take the motorbike down a bumpy road....

So I'm practicing to be ready for the day....
Mmmm oil.

**Biohazard** · 17th July 2006, 18:48

Originally Posted by kickingzebra

Mmmm oil.

**sunhuntin** · 17th July 2006, 22:01

Originally Posted by KATWYN

Pregnacy/ babies versus bikes - I always thought its one or the other.

They are both worlds apart in my own veiw.

thats my view as well... thing is [goes on tangent] is that im 100% certain i dont want kids, yet im too young to be steralised by my own wishes.
i wish i could be though. surely it comes down to personal choice? everyone says, well, what if you change your mind? yeh right, bring an innocent into a world where we have 3 murders in a weekend, and kids dont know the meaning of respect? nup, dont think so doc!
id never considered riding while pregnant....my biggest fear is having the man in blue knock on my door to tell my kids to arrange my funeral. i do not ever want that to happen.

but, in short, if i did get pregnant, i would ride as long as i could, and then rig a carseat on to the pillion seat and bungy cord the sprat. lol.

**Patch** · 17th July 2006, 22:19

Originally Posted by aff-man

fuck.... I almost had a heart attack...

Fark that is some funny shite.

Well, you know how it goes bro,
1. They start thinking about then

Originally Posted by Quartida

This is a rather bizarre question . .
How many of you have ridden while you were pregnant? What about as a pillion? And were you nervous?

2. they start talking about

An then you know what comes next Aff

3. Practice

Good luck mate

**aff-man** · 17th July 2006, 22:38

Originally Posted by Patch

Fark that is some funny shite.

Well, you know how it goes bro,
1. They start thinking about then

2. they start talking about

An then you know what comes next Aff
3. Practice

Good luck mate

*goes and cries in the corner*

*then goes and practices some more*

**beyond** · 18th July 2006, 08:45

This thread also reminds me of the time when my wife was preggies with our first and two weeks overdue. She was getting really pissed off and wanted that sprog to come. This was a long time back and I had a Suzi T350 back then.

Threw her on the back and shot out to Marietai and back from Papakura.
Back then the roads weren't too hot so I figured if we stayed around 85mph we were bound to go airborn on the lumpy bits and if that didn't do it what would.

Hell you do some dum things when you are young.

Airborn we went, quite a bit actually, over and over again. My missus loved every minute of it and it was good to blow the cobwebs out of the bike and me as well.

Didn't work though. (Just as well ) Sprog popped out a few days later though and funny thing is, he always loved bikes, while he was alive.

**Finn** · 18th July 2006, 08:51

Quartida, why don't you PM Inlinefour for his experience. He's been due for quite some time and continues riding. He's fine, just suffers from mood swings and cravings for raw meat.

**msm** · 19th July 2006, 22:02

Just to reiterate the point already made about pregnancy not being a disability, here's a purely anecdotal story about a childhood friend's mother who was quite possibly batshit insane. Granted, it doesn't involve motorbikes, but keep reading...

My friend's mother rode her pushbike more or less every day of her pregnancy, as she had no other transportation. She was a tiny lady, and was big as a house with her 2nd baby, and while mounting and dismounting her pushbike was no graceful affair she managed to keep at it. The end of her 9th month came around, and she started feeling contractions and other signs of labour. So she got on her pushbike and rode the 3-4km to the hospital. Delivered her baby girl a few hours later. Baby had some health issues and had to stay behind at the hospital for a few days for a minor operation. Mother was discharged after a few hours as she was suffering no complications and they shove you out of the maternity ward as quickly as possible if you clearly don't need to be there.

So. A few hours after squeezing something the size of a watermelon out of something the size of a plum, SHE RODE HOME ON HER PUSHBIKE.

Gah. Every time I think of that, I have to cross my legs in sympathy.