Kids as pillions. Who does it?

[sunhuntin]

dont have kids, but dad used to drag us kids around on his bikes. i cant remember what he had...all suzukis i think. me on the tank, brother on the back. just around the backyard. great fun!
cant remember how old i was my first open road pillion, but got told off for turning around all the time. lol. learned after that to sit still.

[Fat Tony]

I've been taking our (now 11yr old) daughter out pillion occasionally since she was about 6. She loves it... especially the sparky knee slider shows.. don't tell my wife!!

At first, I really changed the way that I rode, riding much slower and far more cautiously than I normally would... it got me in to situations that I didn't feel comfortable with, and I found myself concentrating on the wrong things.

I now ride 'normally' with her on the back. Not the weekend thrash pace, but a happy medium and I find it far safer that way. I try to forget that she's there and just concentrate 100% on the riding, the road and the traffic around us.

The other thing I do, which as far as I'm concerned is the important thing, is insist that we both wear hi-viz jackets... not often seen on a gixer

[megageoff76]

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No bloody way would I let my Girls go out with a motorcyclist! Vicious dangerous scumbags the lot of them. What's involved in getting a gun licence?QUOTE]

Totally agree, although my daughter is only one. By the time shes wanting to go out with boys, ill have a big ass mean ZZ Top beard, ride a big loud harley and be wearing a 30 year old megadeth t shirt. They'll be too afraid to ask her out. Well thats my plan so far anyway