Getting your leg over

[Count Steer]

I'd like to help... but not being a midget means I have no relatable experience.

Maybe you could transfer some knowledge from standing up inside vans or sitting in a convertible without getting wind in your eyes.

There was that one time I thought about buying an MX5...

MX5? All a tallish chap needs are goggles and a decent moustache wax on the ol' handlebar and chocks away!

[Supermofo]

On mine the top box is behind the back of the seat so doesn't impact getting on the bike at all.

[demographic]

The only real time bike height has been an issue for me has been kickstarting my KX500, just could do with having more height above the lickstart lever.
I reckon I'm about at average height at 5'10" though and I've never had a topbox yet.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'm 5ft 8, never had a problem with dirt bikes, even MX bikes that don't have stands, I haven't started a KX500, but I never had any problems with my KTM 250 which had the same chassis as the 500, and was left hand kick. I can't remember having any problems with CR500s either.

Though I doubt if I'm as flexible as I was 30 years ago.

[Couchy]

If you goose step towards the bike at a ninety degree angle and time it to perfection you should glide onto the seat

[DefTrap]

Should be in the LBQTShortArse thread.

[demographic]

I'm 5ft 8, never had a problem with dirt bikes, even MX bikes that don't have stands, I haven't started a KX500, but I never had any problems with my KTM 250 which had the same chassis as the 500, and was left hand kick. I can't remember having any problems with CR500s either.

Though I doubt if I'm as flexible as I was 30 years ago.

Never kicked a left side KTM 250 over but always found 250s to be almost hand startable and 125s were deffo startable with a hand on the lever while working on the bike.
Not kicked a CR500 over and always assumed it would have been much the same as ny KX.
Me assuming don't mean shit though, its just a guess based on something else being kind of close ish.

[JackyJoll]

If the goose step doesn’t work, try the cancan.

[wheelnut]

I suffer from a shortish legs and a long back. Not freakishly so, but it’s there all the same.

When I’m camping with the GSA I have a rolltop bag bungeed to the back seat. This makes getting off and on the thing quite comical. Getting on, I lift my right leg up and throw it over the seat and pretty much fall on to the seat. Getting off, I put my left leg down, take the weight and hop away until my right leg can rejoin the rest of my body.

[Horse]

If the goose step doesn’t work, try the cancan.

Tall bike, bag strapped on the pillion seat, short legs ...

... I've had to start from a yard or so away, right leg up - and hop towards the bike

I've had the sidestand on a bike collapse, so was wary of using them as a step.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'm 5ft 8, never had a problem with dirt bikes, even MX bikes that don't have stands, I haven't started a KX500, but I never had any problems with my KTM 250 which had the same chassis as the 500, and was left hand kick. I can't remember having any problems with CR500s either.

Though I doubt if I'm as flexible as I was 30 years ago.

Never kicked a left side KTM 250 over but always found 250s to be almost hand startable and 125s were deffo startable with a hand on the lever while working on the bike.
Not kicked a CR500 over and always assumed it would have been much the same as ny KX.
Me assuming don't mean shit though, its just a guess based on something else being kind of close ish.

The KTM was harder to kick than a Japanese 250 of the same age (1986), the CR500 was an 85, but could have been shagged as it wasn't much quicker than a 250, so probably a bit Roger Irrelevant

[MrLongbeard]

I'm 5ft 8,

Titch

[Yorick]

When I have luggage on I lead with my knee and leg bent.
If Penny is already on, I do a sort of straight karate kick just above my seat. Voila, I'm on.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'm 5ft 8,

Titch

Twat

[ChrisW]

[Scotsrich]

On the GS I just mount it as you woulda horse.

Left foot on the peg and right leg over when you lift yourself up.

Admittedly the dealer had to show me how to do that in my test ride as there was no way I was getting on it the way I did lower bikes.

I’m not sure I’d try that on a non adventure bike but for a tall bike it’s the easiest way.

[Scotsrich]

On the GS I just mount it as you woulda horse.

Left foot on the peg and right leg over when you lift yourself up.

Admittedly the dealer had to show me how to do that in my test ride as there was no way I was getting on it the way I did lower bikes.

I’m not sure I’d try that on a non adventure bike but for a tall bike it’s the easiest way.