Pillions

[Skub]

Girls with big tits make good pillions

And short arms. Don't forget the short arms.

[slowsider]

Girls with big tits make good pillions

And short arms. Don't forget the short arms.

Are you thinking small hands??

[Dodgy69]

Don't mind pillions, as long as I'm on the front seat.

[Dickyboy]

Bought the GS with the sole purpose in mind of going two up touring with Mrs db, I don't mind it but journeys tend to take a while as she likes to stop & rest, not quite sure why we don't get her a bike again but she hasn't ridden for 30yrs or so.

[Dickyboy]

As an idiot youth I rode my mates bike stoned with him on the back as he was too stoned to ride, got convinced we had a puncture but knew I couldn't stop and check because if it wasn't flat my mate would know just how stoned I was too

[Trinity765]

As an idiot youth I rode my mates bike stoned with him on the back as he was too stoned to ride, got convinced we had a puncture but knew I couldn't stop and check because if it wasn't flat my mate would know just how stoned I was too

Well, did ya? Have a puncture?

[Scotsrich]

That’s tricky.

I don’t like pillions generally but I’m not one for riding on my own so I like my OH being there as well so she quite often rides pillion.

She’s a good passenger with no concerns about speed and in spite of 2 incidents, one of which could have ended very badly she just jumped back on again.

In fact she thinks I’ve slowed down over the years, which is probably true.

[Noggin]

I used to love going pillion. Still would with the right person. When I passed my test people told me I'd hate being pillion but I didn't. If I went pillion, I basically switched off the brain, got on and chilled out and enjoyed!!!

I did almost get put off forever. I wouldn't go on a rideout from a Blackbird meet (too tired and maybe hungover to risk it) and someone offered to take me pillion. As he'd travelled all over with his wife pillion, I made the stupid mistake of thinking it would be fine. It wasn't. First time I've ever nearly been sick on a bike. The absolute worst was country roads with bits of gravel and the guy would brake on the apex of the corners Every flipping time!! Was a few years before I tried again!!

One of the big things I remember from pillion is my helmet tapping the riders helmet on gear changes and getting the comment - stop head butting me all the time, from the rider. When I started riding and then taking pillion, I realised that the answer to that should have been - stop being shit at gear changes then!

I am totally happy taking pillion, I do prefer the pillion to be smaller than me because it's easier! I fully expect to take pillion over here, just need to wait a while till I'm more confident with the shoulder strength

Girls with big tits make good pillions

And short arms. Don't forget the short arms.

Funny that! One Blackbird meet a mate took me pillion to do a shopping run. He was a good rider (he'd dome some police training I think but lots of experience and I'd ridden with him a lot, so lots of trust). So, it was a bit weird that he was accelerating quite hard and then braking much harder than he needed to. Didn't want to question him whilst shopping (didn't want to walk back to the site!) and when we got back someone said how was it. I replied, ok. He replied with a comment similar to FG's - to which I went 'ooooooh, I understand now'

[Trinity765]

Funny that! One Blackbird meet a mate took me pillion to do a shopping run. He was a good rider (he'd dome some police training I think but lots of experience and I'd ridden with him a lot, so lots of trust). So, it was a bit weird that he was accelerating quite hard and then braking much harder than he needed to. Didn't want to question him whilst shopping (didn't want to walk back to the site!) and when we got back someone said how was it. I replied, ok. He replied with a comment similar to FG's - to which I went 'ooooooh, I understand now'

On the trip to the Pyrenees that I mentioned there were three women and ten men - all with our own bikes and some pillion riding due to hangovers. The term "fun bags" was used quite a lot when talking about pillion riding

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Bloody hell, a stupid comment of mine has spawned something, I'm not sure what.

The last bike my wife went pillion on was my DRZ400, she was not impressed with the narrow hard seat, last bike she went any distance on was my first FZ750, she was not impressed with the narrow hard seat, the last bike she liked going on the back of was my first 350YPVS, which had a proper seat, if she wanted to go on the back of a bike again I'd buy a CB1100, it's the only modern bike that I like with a seat she'd be willing to go on.

[Rockburner]

Doing a lot of pillion riding at the moment (well - when I get out for a ride ), but she's only a small person so doesn't really affect the handling much. In fact, when I bought the new Nitron shocks I had them pre-set for both of us, but her given weight was off the bottom end of their 'pillion-weights' scale.

The only minor niggle is that you're always waiting for them to get ready...

[Deadpool2]

I hate being a pillion but that partially because the times I had been one, its been with the rider bent on trying to prove something.

I don't enjoy taking pillions either, mainly because I don't want to be responsible for someone else.

I did however take my kids out in the garden, a long time ago. They were small and the bike was a msx 125 ideally suited to us all!

[The Spin Doctor]

I ran out of petrol (borrowed a mate's bike and he'd put the vacuum tap pipes on the wrong way round, so when I switched to reserve, it had already drained the tank) on the M40 and was slowly pushing up the hill to the Beaconsfield exit (there's a petrol station out the other side of the town) when a kid on a Bros 400 stopped and offered me a lift.

There was absolutely NOTHING to hang onto, and ride to the petrol station was bad enough with him pulling off the slip road straight in front of a car, then bouncing round the roundabout (shagged rear suspension) with the centre stand hitting the deck at every bounce, levering the rear end sideways a couple of times. The ride back, with a gallon of two star balanced on one knee and only one hand available to hang on to nothing was even more terrifying.