pillion virgin

when i first took my kids on the bike, I used love handles and told them to sit still and only to move into different position when bike was going in a straight line. I also told them to close their eyes when going round first few corners and relax, seems to help with the leaning with the bike. saying that kids are lighter and you dont really notice them on the back. good luck dont know if a wet night in november is the best time to try it though

Originally Posted by hovis

ive never had a pillion

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The bike wont be as quicv to flick around ,but you will find that it feels much more planted on the road ,and not as twitchy.I prefer to ride two up for those reasons.

Originally Posted by gid

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Originally Posted by hovis

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Big hairy men dont count.

Once your moving you wont really notice she is there if you're being gentle and smooth with everything.

Progressive is the main thing, no sudden actions.

I took my bird out after about 2 weeks from passing my test and all was fine.

[Drew Carey]

I haven't done no where near as many miles as Pete & Lissa 2 up, but a large majority of my fun riding has been 2 up.

First off, as peeps have said, the slow speed light feeling is scary at first, but just be smooth and use the back brake only and its fine. But, once at speed, if I'm honest I can hardly tell. If anything, the additional weight makes the rear of the bike feel more planted. I found that I rarely use the front brakes, as easy to just lightly adjust speed with the rear.

As others have said, the main thing.......have a good chat to your lady, make sure she understands she can't move, unless your ready. Also, she must must must must lean with you, not against you. Finally, if she can, get her to watch where you are going over your shoulder......it means she will brace before brakeing and will be ready when you accelerate. Nothing worse than the head / lid banging.

My first ride on the back of YC was on the Isle of Man, one of the short TT circuits, he broke me in gently....NOT! I loved it though, didn't scare me off, much to his disappointment

It depends very much on the person too, if someone hasn't been on the back before and is just too nervous before they've even got anywhere then don't risk it. As someone mentioned, try get a mate or experienced pillion to practice with beforehand. Although a lot of folk might think the pillion doesn't have to do much, they couldn't be more wrong, both rider and pillion should be anticipating everything going on so they can act accordingly. Admittedly the pillion can get away with a fair bit before owt goes tooooo wrong but there ain't no point testing how much they can get away with!

YC wouldn't take me on the back until he'd done 1000 miles (that was the condition of me going on the back), then, having had that time to adjust to the bike and his own riding style could he then consider being responsible for someone else.

And make sure your lady goes with the bike round corners as opposed to leaning the opposite way. I was told that before I got on and that was all I pretty much thought about the whole time that first ride I was paranoid for ages about doing something wrong and putting him off, he had to keep reassuring me I was doing fine and he didn't notice anything amiss!

Probably only a problem with my gf as I've not noticed it with anyone else, but if she like "looking at the scenery" tell her not to do it over your right shoulder. I turned to check my blindspot to see 50% of my view obscured by her lid.

How did the ride go? Hope we didn't put you off too much.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

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Apart from that, I'd listen to what PeteVTwin says for sure. Those two live on a bike!!

Only cos I can never get rid of her Stretchie. No matter how hard I try.

Wheelies mate.. Be careful what you wish for. You'd get cold without that sheep behind you...







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