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sookie
17-05-09, 07:07 PM
Just took my daughter out for a wee bimble on the back of my bike and she loves it!!! ( not far, just around and home again) hmmm next comes the daddy daddy daddy when can we go again?, still the smile was worth it :)

Jillyburd
17-05-09, 07:09 PM
Just took my daughter out for a wee bimble on the back of my bike and she loves it!!! ( not far, just around and home again) hmmm next comes the daddy daddy daddy when can we go again?, still the smile was worth it :)

Aww thats fab! How old is the wee one? :D

sookie
17-05-09, 07:11 PM
She's actually 13 but I was always way too cautious, maturity and that. Its funny cos I was thinking about asking people in the know thought what age a child was ok on a bike cos I wasn't very sure. but its done now and it was cool.(thank god)

Bibio
17-05-09, 07:12 PM
great.. another biker in the making...

i have the opposite my 2 teenage boys are not interested whatsoever...

Jillyburd
17-05-09, 07:16 PM
great.. another biker in the making...

i have the opposite my 2 teenage boys are not interested whatsoever...

My daughter is almost 9 and way scared of the bikes. The wee guy at 4 would happily ride pillion if his feet reached the pegs! :)

fenjer
17-05-09, 09:25 PM
my 4 yo daughter is desperate for a shoot on the bikes... she's too short though. :(

haggis
17-05-09, 10:06 PM
I'd say it's not the age you need to consider, it's more down to their ability to do as you tell them. It's not a game after all.


But if they're sensible about it, then let them on now and again. :D

fenjer
17-05-09, 10:11 PM
There's no way I'd take my small person on my bike just now - never taken a pillion before for one thing, I think she'd be grand though, OH could take her on my bike. Course that might all change when the new race 'zorst goes on my bike.

Jamiebridges123
17-05-09, 10:14 PM
I'd find it really hard to consider taking my hypothetical child out on the back of my bike. Personally it'd be a risk not worth taking in my eyes until they're around the age of 12 or 13, where they actually start to listen to what you say.

Bibio
17-05-09, 10:16 PM
I'd find it really hard to consider taking my hypothetical child out on the back of my bike. Personally it'd be a risk not worth taking in my eyes until they're around the age of 12 or 13, where they actually start to listen to what you say.

i was out at the age of 9 on the back of my dads

sookie
17-05-09, 11:19 PM
I know exactly what you mean when it comes to when and what age but I agree that it really comes down to maturity and understanding the possible danger involved. I have a son aged 12 and he's just too immature just now and another daughter aged 10 which I consider to be too young. Its just at the age of 12 onwards I was flying up and down the side of a bing with my friends, oh how times have changed, lol.

Tiger 55
18-05-09, 06:39 AM
my hypothetical child...until they're around the age of 12 or 13, where they actually start to listen to what you say.
If you think children start to listen to what you say at any age, you can leave out the 'hypothetical' bit. You obviously don't have children. :)

dirtydog
18-05-09, 07:26 AM
If you think children start to listen to what you say at any age, you can leave out the 'hypothetical' bit. You obviously don't have children. :)

Aint that the truth!!!!!

My daughter is 6 but she isn't sure if she wants to go on the bike. She's a bit of a wuss and says it's too loud :rolleyes:

as if a stubbied akra system is that loud ;)

Cumfy
18-05-09, 08:32 AM
My boy is not 2 yet and I can't get him away from bikes!!He is always tring to get on to them, mine and his uncle's and his grand-dad's. He goes round the house on a mini ride on ducati monster - I didn't buy him it - making all the right noises VROOOM, cough, splutter, vroom. Must be a ducati thing.

**runs and hides **

Must get him a SV ride on. lol. Do you think he will always like bikes?? Guess time will tell.

I thought the legal side of things was that the child must be able to reach the pegs and it was a recommendation of 9 years young minimum.??


Cheers:smt026

fenjer
18-05-09, 08:36 AM
If I were to take my small person out now it'd not be much further than round the estate at a slow bimble...
She'd not be going out on to the "main roads" til she's a bit bigger and older. I dont know that she could hold on for *that* long tbh.

My friends son is four and they have just bought him a mini moto - but he's a big jesse and is scared of it.

-Ralph-
18-05-09, 11:41 AM
My 7 year old niece loves a wee joy ride up and down the street, but last time got a swift stop, off the bike and severe bollocking for doing a "look no hands" as she rode past her wee friends playing in their front garden.

Now shes a very big 7 yr old, head and shoulders above her class mates and wearing age 10 clothes, so easily big enough physically, but just proves that whilst she can reach the pegs and be bought all the necessary gear, she just can't be trusted not to do anything silly out on the open road.

I think I was about 11 for the first pillion ride on the road, it was a classic Norton Commando 750S and not a fast run, but I remember begging and being refused a run on a new GSXR1100 when they first came out (had the poster on my bedroom wall, quick google back in a minute...) that was 1986, so I would have been 10.

It'll be different for each kid's level of maturity, but I think 11 onwards is about right.

Having said that I was in Spain and watched in amazement as a Woman climbed on Burgman 400 followed by a kid of 4 or 5yr old and they zipped off, with the kids arms wrapped round the womans back (I say back not waist cos he couldn't reach that far!) and his feet just reaching the pegs. This kid just hung on like a limpet as she zipped off down the street at 40-50mph and it was obviously this womans main form of transport and that this kid was very confident and comfortable and was on the back every day.

Jamiebridges123
18-05-09, 04:02 PM
If you think children start to listen to what you say at any age, you can leave out the 'hypothetical' bit. You obviously don't have children. :)

I don't no, and I'm so glad. Honestly I hate kids. :smt094

Kilted Ginger
18-05-09, 04:34 PM
Blah Blah Blah.

Didnt we get rid of him:smt042
Kick him out, sent him over the border etc

-Ralph-
18-05-09, 06:35 PM
Didnt we get rid of him:smt042
Kick him out, sent him over the border etc

Ha ha, it aint that easy :smt098

appollo1
18-05-09, 10:01 PM
my kids daughter 6, son 4 always have to have a sit on my bike and give it a few revs when i am about to go out on it. Maggie keeps asking when she is allowed to go for a ride out with me but knows it wont be til she's at least 20!!!!

Kilted Ginger
18-05-09, 10:03 PM
my kids daughter 6, son 4 always have to have a sit on my bike and give it a few revs when i am about to go out on it. Maggie keeps asking when she is allowed to go for a ride out with me but knows it wont be til she's at least 20!!!!

Which is a good 12 months before she'll be allowed to start dating:rolleyes:

kitkat
18-05-09, 10:11 PM
my 2 both went pillion from about 10. I wear love handles so they can hang on. Doesnt really help along the wibbly wobbly road though. Only problem I found was they leave their rucksack behind at the regular fag breaks and dont realise until we are 20 miles down the road. Bex now has her own bike - scary - Im getting old

appollo1
18-05-09, 10:19 PM
Which is a good 12 months before she'll be allowed to start dating:rolleyes:


Dating !!! Dating !!!! I don't think so!!!

Blue Flame
19-05-09, 10:43 AM
I think Harry was about ten when I first let him on the back.

I use the love handles with him but as he was so light the only way i knew he was there was when I braked hard as he did a garfield impression on my back.

I can see his gloves on the love handles but i keep having nightmares about stopping after a while and finding just a pair of gloves :p

Scooby Drew
22-05-09, 07:37 AM
My dad was taking me on his bike from about age 8 - nothing cooler than having your dad drop you off at school on his bike 8-)

Dicky Ticker
22-05-09, 09:21 AM
Just imagine if you lived in India------not just a pillion but the whole family and not a crash hemet or leathers to be seen
I didn't ride pillion at 12 or 13,I was the rider,tractor driver,driver,admittedley on the farm fields.
Motorbikes were well about when kids had to go to work at 14.so only being a decade or so later it did not seem odd to our generation.