Minimum age for pillion

[Goblin]

As long as they can reach the pegs comfortably it's perfectly legal. When my daughter was four I used to take her to kindy on my ZX4....until the bike was written off after a head on.(I was riding solo that day) I didnt take her on my next bike for fear of it happening again. I started taking my middle son for short rides when he was about seven and my tiny six year old has been for a few rides since he was five.

I have found that taking my kids pillion really wears me down because I am so scared of dopey car drivers not seeing us. A short ride to Tauranga and back with a child on board can wear me out more than a long solo ride to Whangamomona and back or a coro loop.

[KATWYN]

Yes, I have to say in my experience its been a very rare occurance to see a child pillioned on the back of a motorcycle on the road.....I may have only seen it once or twice in all my years of riding. Or I just may not have noticed before

[rwh]

also, i used to go around with dad sitting on the tank, but only within our property.

He's quite a small bloke then, I take it?

Richard

[scott411]

i can remeber about age 8, my dad taking me around the old baypark circuit, on some mid eighties Suzuki GSX, i remember him telling me we did 100 mph down the back straight,

i can remember then telling mum what we did and her going off the deep end at my father, ;(

[thehollowmen]

Pity the license plate "RU16YET" is already taken...

[BASS-TREBLE]

My dad told me how he used to take me when i was 4-5 on a 100 Beemer around through Germany on 2-300km trips. Squashed between him and the tank and feet on the carbs =D.
When my sister had a turn she bent the carb.
Then again that was over 10 years ago and in Europe.