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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 18:11:46 GMT
Going out for a ride with my wife later on. She’s started to show a bit of an interest in bikes of late. Maybe it’s a midlife thing.
Anyway, I’ll take some pics whilst we’re out and will share. Going to take her up Mulholland.
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Post by davefirestorm on Oct 11, 2020 19:08:28 GMT
Good luck with that 😁 First time I took my present wife pillion she fell off when I paddled bike out of parking space only realising when a car sounded horn,she displaced her hips bless her 😂😂 My first wife was pillion on my rigid framed Velocette it had a pad on the mudguard as a seat I hit a deep pothole outside a cemetery in Coventry displacing her from the pad luckily no damage done to bike 😂😂.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 19:20:28 GMT
Good luck with that 😁 First time I took my present wife pillion she fell off when I paddled bike out of parking space only realising when a car sounded horn,she displaced her hips bless her 😂😂 My first wife was pillion on my rigid framed Velocette it had a pad on the mudguard as a seat I hit a deep pothole outside a cemetery in Coventry displacing her from the pad luckily no damage done to bike 😂😂. Might have to get a side car. (Will be like Oilve from on the buses).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 19:24:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 5:10:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 5:17:55 GMT
Fantastic ride out......but we had a bit of a problem coming home.
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Post by marktrower on Oct 12, 2020 12:51:16 GMT
Looking very quiet at mullholland what was the problem upset you got the knee down or you did not.all the time I have known my wife she went on the back.the sports bikes not so much the reason I got the Harley was for here well thats my reason. Nobody seems to want to go on the back nowadays I do not understand why
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Post by BruceB on Oct 12, 2020 15:21:40 GMT
I was on the back of a Superdream when I was 15, the first time I was ever on a bike. I swore I would never be a pillion ever again and 40 years later I never have been and have no intention of ever doing it again. However my missus doesn't mind it at all and I have happily rode from Inverness to the IOM several times and back with her on the back. She prefers this to actually driving even though she has a full licence. I do remember the first time I had her on the back many moons ago and I turned out of a side street going uphill and gave it a bit to much of the loud pedal, ended up wheelying up the hill due to the slope and the extra weight on the back I wasn't used to.......... Take advantage of her keen ness while it lasts
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Post by marktrower on Oct 12, 2020 18:37:42 GMT
on one ride out we pulled into a lay-by one of us was having an issue,i felt the wife get off to stretch her legs i felt here get back on i thought my mate waved to say i am fine and we all started to set off .i got about two mile down the road when one of the group over took me and waved me down .his words were i think you have forgot someone.i got back to the lay-by were she was waiting i got vision no sound for most of the day so some good came out of it
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Post by JonnyHonda on Oct 12, 2020 18:54:18 GMT
I remember when I was courting the wife. I had a 350LC and we pulled into a garage for fuel and I filled the bike while we were still sat on it.
Then got off to go to pay thinking she had her feet down and forgetting she's only 5'2".
I remember looking back across the forecourt. She hasn't let me forget that 30 years later
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Post by BruceB on Oct 12, 2020 21:08:22 GMT
My missus took one of my old 600's to work some years ago, came in and told me she had dropped it but there was no damage. Took a while for the full story to come out, she had a habit of riding at the gutter like a bicycle and when she came to a set of traffic lights she was quite close to a metal barrier. She forgot to put her feet down and slowly keeled over till she was jammed between the bike and the barrier, apparently it took a couple of blokes coming over to get the bike off her but at least she protected the bike from any damage Can't complain though, a few years ago leaning going round a junction the bike stalled and locked the back wheel leaned over at very slow speed, she got her foot down with mine and we stopped the bike falling over, quite a feat when it was a Honda Varadero with full luggage and it weighed a ton.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 2:44:37 GMT
In a nutshell the rear brake system suffered a total failure after coming down some steep hills near Mulholland. Been on line and it seems quite evident it was my own fault, the brake fluid boiled. Luckily I realised something was wrong and pulled over before the potential for a nasty incident kicked in. For all I know, that brake fluid is probably the original....so a wake up call for me.
Guess what I'll be doing this week?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 3:00:38 GMT
Just read through the responses and I am so glad to hear member's experiences of having a pillion rider. In the late nineties my GF at the time loved being a pillion rider and I can report no issues or incidents during that time, all went well. But back around 1987, I was a pillion myself on my dad's 1980 GSX250. One Sunday morning we went to a car boot sale on the bike and I bought a box of 00 gauge model railway stuff. As we got to the bike to head home, I hopped on the back, not realising that my dad had yet got his stability and footing correct on the ground........so crash, down we went...
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Post by davefirestorm on Oct 13, 2020 7:29:31 GMT
I’ve had quite a lot of “pillion” incidents over the years come to think of it 😂😂😂 Borrowed my mates 250 Honda to take a young lady for a spin,it rained heavily and I braked hard using a lot of back brake the bike was on original Yokohama tyres lethal in wet we ended up facing wrong way outside Woolworths in Leamington Spa😂😂😂
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Post by stevegbr on Oct 13, 2020 7:53:57 GMT
one i do remember is i had to give my brothers girlfriend a lift to work, which went ok, but when i got back i noticed black goo on my exhaust pipe,
the high heels she was wearing had melted, took me ages to get it off, we did laugh about it later though.
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