Tips for riding with an inexperienced pillion?

peckerhead

Excellent. Reading through the thread, I was nodding assent to various comments, but those 12 bullet-points explain really well a whole range of little details that I hadn't thought of but which instantly ring a bell. Worth a sticky, mods, under the Learner/Newbie Sticky? Or a link maybe?

It's great bringing a mate/OH out for a nice spin, but I always kind of dread it as well, and I drive like I was doing my test all over again (...holy shít, I just calculated how many years ago that was! :eek:).

And I've never liked riding pillion myself, even with drivers I knew I could trust. At best, it's pretty boring, especially on longer trips.

Being stuck on the back with a fool that you don't trust and/or who is likely to start showing off is just plain horrible.

Pugzilla

galwaytt wrote: »

If you can't figure out where to get it, that's no right to condescend to those of us who have figured out where to buy it. And use it.

And who belongs on the back of a bike - in your opinion, that is.

The moral High Ground is thataway. --->>>>>>>>

It's the internetz, not my problem if you got sand in your vagina.

Castro street is thataway. --->>>>>>>>

Esel

^ Sand?man: 'zilla, you have just compromised your traction witth that post.

Apolog/explan street is thataway. --->>

DLMA23

Nice post Roadskill, thanks for sharing

Alanooh

I got one of them pillion hold on straps it helped a lot.

Check Morrisonbhp.net (Cork online store) thats were I got mine, well wort it if carrying a pillion a lot.

Esel

Alanooh wrote: »

I got one of them pillion hold on straps it helped a lot.

Check Morrisonbhp.net (Cork online store) thats were I got mine, well wort it if carrying a pillion a lot.

Yeah, every little helps. A strap that could trap a hand could be a deathtrap though... No experience of the one you mentioned, BTW.

The content of Roadskill's post #30 above is worth a read, then a reread or three.