How old were you when you first rode pillion?

[CBallman]

I never have ridden on the back but I got on my first dirt bike when I was 4 and have been riding ever since!! Cant imagine what my life would be like without motorcycles....id be pretty damn boring thats for sure! :rockon:

 

[Nelly]

Concur - and it's a great disinhibitor for the ladies, as they've already had their legs around you! Plus the adrenaline of being on the bike, powerless, with the guy in front, enjoying the ride. (worked for me!)



Absolutely - AND, they can't counter-lean when they hold on to you. (or worse still, counter-lean and then remember to lean, halfway around the corner!)



Same - but if he starts breathing heavy and rubbing up against me, we're gonna stop and have words!

LOL!

To be fair, I've only had chicks, wife, my son and male friends on the back - not some random guy. (I did pick up a couple of female hitch-hikers in my pre-married life though!)

Cheers,
Rick

The most unlikely person I have ever ridden pillion with ,was a priest all leathers and dog collar.
I fouled the plug on my 50cc bike when I was 16. I was 20 miles from home (pre mobile phone).
He stopped, we chatted. He knew my pop from drag racing and took me the round 40mile trip on his GS550 to get a plug spanner. Probably my best interaction with the Church ever.
Nelly

 

[Smersh]

Story of how I got into motorcycles. Up until I was 19, I was not interested in bikes, thought they were too dangerous, blah-blah...

... and then I rode pillion (or the "b*** seat", as it was referred to by the rider)...:shakehead:
... on a back of Honda Magna cruiser...
... with my girlfriend at the time as the rider.

Try to beat that in the area of self-confidence for a 19 year old!!!

Being 6'3, 200 lbs sitting above the rider's seat did not help balance issues (I and only I controlled the lean in the corners), but did help answering the howling coming from the Jeep filled with guys that stopped parallel to us at a traffic light.

My girlfriend and I didn't last, but the love of freedom and wind in the face stayed. Few years later, I took motorcycle course, and here I am now. :Sport:

 

[Nelly]

I did pick up a couple of female hitch-hikers in my pre-married life though!)

Cheers,
Rick

Sounds like a whole new thread:spank:

 

[CHEMIKER]

The most unlikely person I have ever ridden pillion with ,was a priest all leathers and dog collar.
I fouled the plug on my 50cc bike when I was 16. I was 20 miles from home (pre mobile phone).
He stopped, we chatted. He knew my pop from drag racing and took me the round 40mile trip on his GS550 to get a plug spanner. Probably my best interaction with the Church ever.
Nelly

When you were 16 it was pre any type of phone, right? :BLAA:

 

[lomax]

Cool stuff.

 

[Lefty]

I've been riding since I was 15, first in the (then) wide open spaces of SoCal and then on the street from 16 on.
I know this will sound bad but I've never had the nerve to trust anyone else to be in control of a bike with me on the back.. :ban:

 

[agf]

on home made minibikes in Melbourne at about 10 or 11, on the road at about 17 with a mate on his learners( bit naughty) then he moved to LA and I visited and we rode from LAX to Hollywood and beyond on freeways him on his new Yam 250 me in light travel cotton pants a leather jacket just bought in SOHO London, (and not a bike jacket) and best of all NO helmet. I look back on all those experiences and think how damn lucky I have been

 

[Darth Fazer]

I was 5 when my Dad first took me for a ride on his '78 Kawasaki KZ1000. I also remember a few years later, a car full of smart-assed teenagers pulled up beside us in a Mustang GT, revving their engine. My Dad turned around, told me to hang on & proceded to blow their doors off! They were much tamer at the next stop light!

 

[Nelly]

When you were 16 it was pre any type of phone, right? :BLAA:

Not entirely true, we had Megaphones lol.

 

[greg]

when i was 21 and had gone travelling. Was in brazil and needed to get a moto-taxi.

Got on the back fully loaded with 20kg of backback, crapped myself when we first went around a corner...

Did it again a couple of months later in bolivia (no helmet that time!)

 

[lytehouse]

I must have been around 12 or so on a mini bike my folks bought for my brothers
I wasn't supposed to ride it cause according to my Daddy, "girls don't ride motorcycles" LOL, if he could see me now.....
And I dug up this picture of my son Steve on John's Honda Sabre (he was 3). Too cute not to share

 

[Have2BeFree]

I didn't vote cause you stopped at 12. I was 15 and I don't think that qualifies as "adult".

My dad and my uncle went out one day an each of them bought a Honda Goldwing. My mother was not happy but was good enough to "go along" with it. So my mom rode with my dad and I got to ride with my uncle. The bike didn't last long cause my mom kept leaning against my dad :spank: which caused many........uh............disagreements. However, my love for riding was born and continues to this day.

My daughter was 10 when she started riding pillion - first with my b/f at the time cause I was a new rider. I spent a year riding alone before I put her on the back. She loved it so much that even as a junior in high school she was having me ride her to school. Unfortunately she got too big for me to ride but when she can she gets a ride with a friend. :thumbup:

 

[mave2911]

I didn't vote cause you stopped at 12. I was 15 and I don't think that qualifies as "adult".

My dad and my uncle went out one day an each of them bought a Honda Goldwing.

Not an adult, but not a bike either!

It's a couch (sofa) with wheels!

LOL!

Cheers,
Rick

 

[keira]

18 - freshman year of college had a friend who used to ride me to class. I vowed on one of those trips that I was going to get a bike someday. I love being a pillion, but there is nothing like piloting a bike yourself.

 

[rino60]

When I was about three or four on my dads CBR. Loved it, but didn't fall in love with bikes until I was about 18.

 

[CBRF3RIDER]

When I was about three or four on my dads CBR. Loved it, but didn't fall in love with bikes until I was about 18.

Your dad had a CBR? Nice!


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[RJ2112]

Somewhere in a field in England (near Denham?), on the back of a Vespa scooter my Dad had acquired. That would have been when I was between 7 and 9 years old... call it 1969. Seeing the grass whipping by my feet was something I found utterly amazing.

 

[Nelly]

I didn't vote cause you stopped at 12. I was 15 and I don't think that qualifies as "adult".
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Sorry about that, in my job size wise adults start at <12 year-old. It's just they way I think.

Nelly

 

[Randomchaos]

Either 3 or 4, don't remember which. Took a quick trip around the neighborhood on the back of my dads old Kawasaki 750.