Riding with a Pillion?

**bugjuice** · 12th December 2006, 10:21

*ordering a bigger flash card for camera now...*

to take photos of PF and Sam on their first pillion ride, for all those dirty minds...

**placidfemme** · 12th December 2006, 10:36

Originally Posted by bugjuice

*ordering a bigger flash card for camera now...*

to take photos of PF and Sam on their first pillion ride, for all those dirty minds...

lol yay piccies!

**Stroker Girl** · 12th December 2006, 11:48

Also, another good point is for the rider to check the pillion is securely in place before moving off! Not a good feeling when a bike accelerate off whilst only one leg is over.........

**Hellraiser** · 12th December 2006, 12:02

Don't forget those wise words form Ronald .......

**bugjuice** · 12th December 2006, 12:02

Originally Posted by Hellraiser

Don't forget those wise words form Ronald .......

what? try our cheese burger for a $1.99?

**Hotchefnz** · 12th December 2006, 12:04

All the above advise is great - and is the advise I used when taking my son for his first couple of spins.
The only problem I have now is on a hot day he decides to doze off - LOL...
Start off on small trips and get longer - it works a treat.
Best of lck

**Hellraiser** · 12th December 2006, 12:14

Originally Posted by bugjuice

what? try our cheese burger for a $1.99?

NO

MAKE IT CLICK

**placidfemme** · 12th December 2006, 12:19

*wonders how I can make my bike click... it makes all sorts of other funny noises... but not clicking*

**Whynot** · 12th December 2006, 12:49

Originally Posted by placidfemme

*wonders how I can make my bike click... it makes all sorts of other funny noises... but not clicking*

let me guess .... rattles mostly

**placidfemme** · 12th December 2006, 12:50

Originally Posted by Whynot

let me guess .... rattles mostly

Rattles... squeaks... sometimes a clonking... but mostly she just purs

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 12th December 2006, 17:12

Originally Posted by Hotchefnz

All the above advise is great - and is the advise I used when taking my son for his first couple of spins.
The only problem I have now is on a hot day he decides to doze off - LOL...
Start off on small trips and get longer - it works a treat.
Best of lck

My Ex use to doze off as a pillion, but she was secure as... she use to tuck her hands int the handles of the side panniers and with the back rest on the top box she said she just use to doze off...

I heard her snoring over the intercom once... twas funny.... But she was so lite a and tiny that I didn't even notice when she was there...

**Waylander** · 12th December 2006, 17:16

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

My Ex use to doze off as a pillion, but she was secure as... she use to tuck her hands int the handles of the side panniers and with the back rest on the top box she said she just use to doze off...

I heard her snoring over the intercom once... twas funny.... But she was so lite a and tiny that I didn't even notice when she was there...

My last GF would put her hands in my pockets and take naps on long straightish rides. Fuck I miss that.

**NotaGoth** · 12th December 2006, 17:40

Originally Posted by placidfemme

That was you on Glens bike? Now I feel rude cause I didn't say hello

*sez hello*

*cough* yup... Hi..

**Hillbilly** · 13th December 2006, 02:19

I don't know if anyone's mention that your pillion needs to trust you implicitly.
Had a mate take a guy for a ride home from work. All the way home the guy kept screaming " you're gonna kill me! you're gonna kill me!"

My first ride a pillion with that mate was a quick "blast" along the NW Motorway on his VF1000FF, where he got to 195km/hr just past Pt Chev. It was "payback" for taking the Wellerley St offramp lefthand corner (from the southern motorway) at 70 mph (112km/hr) in a long wheelbase left hand drive Dodge Monaco. It took months to get the clawmarks out of the front passenger's seat.

Been pillion with the same mate in a two-up race to Piha as well, averaging 170km/hr into the corners on that VF. On the left handers, all I could see was the long grass hitting the visor from the banks. The bike was shod with Metzler's and the rear tyre wasn't holding on too well, so we were also drfting. He changed to Michelin Hi-Sports after that ride. Got spotted coming into Piha by a work mate, leant right over sparks off the centerstand and pegs. No worries!

Those Michelins proved a little too sticky . Imagine being pillion, facing up Queen St at the lights opposite Meyer's Park. Mate goes to ride off, and drops a wheelie by accident, TWICE! That's It was really hillarious 'cos it gave the boy racers next to us the shits something terrible. I've also been pillion with this person weaving though traffic in Downtown Auckland and along the waterfront at speeds around 200km/hr including blasting between a bus and a car.

Only crashed once when I was with him. He made the mistake of slowing down on a unsealed country road near Taupiri. It was in interesting experience sliding down a slope for 30 meters pinned under 250kg of bike. It had a full tank of gas. Now that will tell you whether you'll ever get on a bike again!! His was pissed off because he bent the clutch and gear levers. Nevertheless, we picked up the bike, got on and rode home.

That's what I mean about a pillion totally trusting you as a person and your skills as a rider.