06-12-16, 11:57 AM
I've hated going pillion on bikes since I got my license, and with good reason, as all my mates were nutters on bikes; it was like it was a competition to scare your pillion witless or something. I knew one girl who loved all that, used to always want to have a go on the back (ooh er indeed! :lol ). She was pretty hot actually, tall and leggy, a real rock chick. She insisted on going on the back of my Kwak Turbo one night - that thing was easy to pull wheelies on when you were two up. It just sailed up serenely on power. I forgot to check if there was a damp patch on the pillion seat after that, but she loved it.
I took Steve, from the above story, on the back of my RG500 one time, we had to get to somewhere or other, just a short ride. They were only small and light, those RGs, but I'm 6' 2'' - it was ok though with just me on it, but when he got on the back, that thing just bottomed out on the rear shock, bang! Worse still, his knees were up around my ears, I was just clamped into place, couldn't move. The bike was virtually on the back wheel before we even pulled away. Well, I managed to get us where we were going, but that was the last time I tried taking a pillion on the RG.
Another time my brother let me have a go on his RD350LC. He'd had that bike bored out to whatever it was you could take them out to, and I was itching to have a thrash of it. He said ok, but I had to take him pillion, home from some place we'd gone to, I wasn't on my own bike that day for whatever reason. He warned me to be careful, that the throttle stuck occasionally, he hadn't got around to sorting it... Well, I just gave it loads of welly off the lights, and the front wheel came up - you'd expect it to on those bikes, even in standard trim - but sure enough, the throttle stuck open; the front came up so fast, we both slipped back on the seat and I couldn't grab the clutch. My brother got dragged along on his arse for a few yards before we toppled over. We had to leave the bike there till the morning, but he couldn't sit down in the taxi that got us home that night :lol
As for getting on the back when Steve was the pilot - forget it! I may have been stupid, but even I was never that stupid :lol
I took Steve, from the above story, on the back of my RG500 one time, we had to get to somewhere or other, just a short ride. They were only small and light, those RGs, but I'm 6' 2'' - it was ok though with just me on it, but when he got on the back, that thing just bottomed out on the rear shock, bang! Worse still, his knees were up around my ears, I was just clamped into place, couldn't move. The bike was virtually on the back wheel before we even pulled away. Well, I managed to get us where we were going, but that was the last time I tried taking a pillion on the RG.
Another time my brother let me have a go on his RD350LC. He'd had that bike bored out to whatever it was you could take them out to, and I was itching to have a thrash of it. He said ok, but I had to take him pillion, home from some place we'd gone to, I wasn't on my own bike that day for whatever reason. He warned me to be careful, that the throttle stuck occasionally, he hadn't got around to sorting it... Well, I just gave it loads of welly off the lights, and the front wheel came up - you'd expect it to on those bikes, even in standard trim - but sure enough, the throttle stuck open; the front came up so fast, we both slipped back on the seat and I couldn't grab the clutch. My brother got dragged along on his arse for a few yards before we toppled over. We had to leave the bike there till the morning, but he couldn't sit down in the taxi that got us home that night :lol
As for getting on the back when Steve was the pilot - forget it! I may have been stupid, but even I was never that stupid :lol