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Posted: 19:02 - 26 Jul 2019 Post subject: Motorbike & Sidecar Hire? |
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My granddaughter is always asking when she's gonna get a ride on one of my bikes.
She's only 5 and the thought of pulling some dank wheelies with her hanging off the back... well the wife said no
However, riding in a sidecar would more than make her day so would anyone have any recommendations? (SW London/Surrey area.) ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Lol... she pulls out the pegs and hops up on the bikes when I'm working on them "vvvroooom.... vvvrrooom!!!" and she's already asked for a pit bike for Xmas ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Posted: 22:40 - 26 Jul 2019 Post subject: Re: Motorbike & Sidecar Hire? |
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stinkwheel wrote: | I recommend you don't ride a sidecar. |
They're great! Yes, like trikes they get held up in traffic, but they are excellent fun. One of the most fun vehicles ever in the ice and snow.
stinkwheel wrote: | I further recommend that if you have never ridden a sidecar, you do not put anyone or anything you love in or near it for at least the first month. |
That. They do take some getting used to OFC. Taking care is a very good tip. Hm. "Tip". Oops.
I had a friend, from an ex-Russian satellite state, who wanted a go on an outfit of mine. I wouldn't sit *in* the sidecar, being cowardly and interested in self-preservation, only *on* it, so I wouldn't be trapped. Good thing too, after about 200 yards he turned sharp left over the kerb and into some bushes, with a maniacal twisted grin on his face and a loud burst of Slavic yelling, so I bailed out. OTOH my dad, very trusting (and had driven outfits from a Lambretta to a Sq4), went in the sidecar with a large friend of his accompanying on the pillion. Heading along the embankment by the river we suddenly turned towards a pub, with a hideous screech and rumbling. "Don't turn like that" he said. The pillion didn't say anything. |
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Most I saw was in Malaysia, 5 people and a dog standing in a shopping bag held by one of the passengers. Dad riding
with toddler in front of him, on the back was presumably the mother holding the dog in a bag while a little girl aged
about 7 sat between mum and dad. Oh and she was holding a very small baby, obvs. Not a single crash helmet between them. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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someone wrote: | yestrday i took my kid (8 years old) for a ride , he was wearing a helmet and i was riding below 50 kmh near our home ,an a hole cut me off at the roundabout i manged by a hair while fearing my kid will fell off .
am a large guy so i wont suffer much if anything at all but my kid i dont want to think about it .
moral of the story ,,,,, i wont take my kid on a public road again peroid... |
I sympathise with that feeling. Horrible.
Way back in 1990, I took my then ten year old, eldest son on the back of my Honda CB250RS through France to Italy.
https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-tzC9WRb/0/bbada7eb/XL/Tom%20in%201990%20on%20way%20back%20from%20Italy-XL.jpg
This is him having 'breakfast' out of the saddlebag at five in the morning after a night bedded down on the grass verge at the side of a French motorway.
We had intended to go as far as southern Italy, but in a fierce rainstorm, on the Italian side of the Alps, I was going uphill on a bad road, streaming with water and when I opened the throttle, the back end of the bike stepped out and we almost came off it. I decided then and there that I had risked his life too much already and we stayed there for a few days and then came home. This involved driving all night at times and me tapping his leg behind me and him tapping my back to prove that he was awake and not about to fall off at sixty miles an hour onto a pitch black motorway wearing his black Belstaff jacket.
He still talks about the trip and rides himself these days. He says that none of his mates had an adventure like riding 2500 miles on the back of a motorbike. Looking back, it was bloody irresponsible of me. These days, he might be taken away by social services. ____________________ 2016 Triumph Street Twin; 2000 Honda CG125; 1997 Honda Nighthawk CB250 |
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grr666 wrote: | Most I saw was in Malaysia, 5 people and a dog standing in a shopping bag held by one of the passengers. Dad riding
with toddler in front of him, on the back was presumably the mother holding the dog in a bag while a little girl aged
about 7 sat between mum and dad. Oh and she was holding a very small baby, obvs. Not a single crash helmet between them. |
I've not seen five, but I certainly saw a mum and dad and two kiddies (one barely a toddler) riding a scooter in Naples. Only the dad had a helmet..... Nice guy obviously. Careful of his family. We'd strayed into a bad area, and my gf had her bag stolen a few minutes after by some stinking skank of a moped gangster, who suddenly opened the car door, snatched her bag and was off on the moped down the pavement with his mate who was waiting behind us. Being from the UK, I didn't realise you had to have all your doors locked at all times, especially when you were stuck in a traffic jam.
These days, things have changed here in some cities so people expect to have to lock their doors. ____________________ 2016 Triumph Street Twin; 2000 Honda CG125; 1997 Honda Nighthawk CB250 |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 254 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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