When was the last time you rode pillion?

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

When was the last time you rode pillion? Mine was a few months ago after I binned it - I was lying in a hedge trying to break free of some brambles and wondering why my right arm wouldn't work, and weeping tears of grief and anguish over how trashed my bikes was.

Not long after, a guy came round the bend on a really knackered old klx650 and nearly fell off when he saw me and the bike. Great guy btw - an ex-miner and literally poacher turned gamekeeper. Checked me over, got me lid off (cos me right arm wasn't working at all), stashed me bike down a public footpath and then ran me home. Don't think we did more than about 30 all the way. I told him to come in for a cuppa but he said he had to go, and would call back another day.

Before that it was probably about 1987 - my mate's rd350lc or other mate's tzr250. I loved it!
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[notbike]

First time pillion was on the back of an R125 about 8-9 months ago. I was picked up by a seller from outside a train station and taken to where the bike I wanted to have a look at was located.

Scariest 5 minutes of my life. I'll happily go speedy with a pillion on the back but if the controls aren't in my hands I fucking hate it, probably got trust issues

I dunno how people who ride pillion can enjoy not having controls in their hands.

[mentalboy]

About 1991 for me, memorable because the chain came off the scabby old CB250 'wetdream' and dumped us unceremoniously in the gutter when pulling away from the lights. (Not even sure how I came to be a pillion that day as I had 4 working bikes on the road the time)
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[arry]

About 4 months ago, in Wales on a long weekend away. 4 of us went, on 4 bikes. Only 2 of us came home. Lost one bike through a hedge just as we entered Wales, luckily with rider uninjured. This meant that there were 3 bikes and 4 guys for the rest of the weekend so we took it in turns at being pillion. Weird someone else riding my bike in front of me whilst I'm on the back of someone else's.

Then on the Sunday before the Monday we were due to come home, rider number 2 binned his R1 down a ravine. Broken ribs n shizzle. All good fun....

[stevo as b4]

2011 on the back of my dad's DRZ400SM. Was loud and bumpy but great fun down quiet back lanes all under 70mph. It was a reasonably cool bike, and probably cooler than any bike I've owned since 2008 too!

I don't mind pillion, have no issue's with it generally, but did have the feeling once I was falling off the back of a VTR1000 during a fast 2car overtake, and It might sound like bollocks to everyone, but I reckon it was only the very strong engine braking when the throttle is shut on a litre V-twin, that threw me back onto the pillion seat.

A very crap bike for tall pillion's though, and probably crap for all pillions due to no seat padding to speak of.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

G gave me a lift back to the field at the last BBQ. I spilt liquid on him.

Does it count if your pillion reaches around and takes control?
If so, then also at IOM last year.
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[temeluchus]

2003 ish.
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[Shaft]

NYE, 1986, S London to St Albans on the back of my mate's K100.

I'm not the best passenger anyway, but this guy took the piss, three figure speeds, cranked over with frost on the road.

I vowed I would never go on the back of a bike again and I never have.
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[Commuter_Tim]

[Shaft]

Funnily enough, no, but not because of that.
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[Fladdem]

Last Monday, I was racing a Merc down the A46 and snapped the chain on my CRM 250, when I smashed it up unto 5th, I thought I'd blown the gearbox I gradually coasted to a halt at the side of the road, my chain was about half a mile away from me in rush hour traffic. I rang my dad, he turned up about an hour and a half later, god knows what he was messing about at, on the Varadero 125. I asked him to get the chain off my TTR 250, so I could at least get home under my own steam.

He towed me back towards Warwick, I held onto the rack, we took some shortcuts down little footpaths and bits, we made it to Warwick and I couldn't be bothered anymore, I dumped it at my mates house, and got a lift back on the back of my dad.

We bottomed out the suspension with over 30 stone on her, still got her up to 55! I really enjoyed it, it could have just been that I was knackered, but I loved the feeling of being on a motorbike, without having to think about anything, just sit and relax and enjoy the ride. Couldn't do it for long though as my gangly legs and his frame, meant my hips were cramped up within a few minutes.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

July 1999, when I bought the R100RT.
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[Tungtvann]

2 and a bit years ago getting a lift to do my CBT. Was on the back of the instructors bike so wasn't too bad!

[J4mes]

About 8 years ago on the back of my brother's TL1000R. He (8 stone) popped a massive wheelie and me (17 stone) was trying to work out if I jumped off the back or waited until I fell off.

I chose life, and he put it back down. I was relieved.

[LongJohn22]

Mid sixties or thereabouts on the back of my mates Triumph Thunderbird(which I later bought off him). He was showing me the ease with which he could scrape the pegs on the road going round the bend by the Gaumont cinema in Pompey. Great fun(in them days), you had more of the road to yourselves then.

[The Tot]

2006. On the back of my mate's CBR600F-S from Donnington park down to Gloucester to fetch my ZX6R that I had just sniped on ebay! I won't admit to the speed he was doing down the M5 near Tewksbury, but let's just say we did the M42 junction to Quedgeley in about 20 minutes or less.

Or could it be 3 up in Thailand in 2007? Can't remember... going back from patpong back to my cousin's residence after the BTS metro had shut down!
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[RedPanda]

Doing threes up on a scooter pissed in Sumatra in 2011.
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[MC]

Never
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[Iain.]

When I was 17 on the back of a Marauder 125 because I couldnt be arsed to walk all the way home pissed up. No gear, no lid. Never again.

[recman]

My one and only time was back in the '70s on my brother's Puch Maxi.
Shat myself.

[mattyfattyboo...]

Last year on the back of my brothers GSXR600 K7. I was very impressed I even fitted on the pillion seat tbh, 24 stone, I'm also impressed we didnt wheelie everywhere.

[pdg]

I think my first/last time pillion was in about 1991 or thereabouts.

I remember 3 things about it:

1. It was fun.

2. Overtaking a coach on the m6, doing nearly double the speed limit.

3. I wore a waterproof jacket which had a hood - the hood untucked itself and acted like a windbrake, doing nearly double the speed limit...
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[FlightRisk]

Quick lift on back of instructors bike at city speeds.
Different bike school, back of instructors bike at proper road speeds.
nonononononononono

Never again.
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[barrkel]

On my last birthday, my GF gave me a lift to work on her scooter, so that I could safely drink at the restaurant we went to in the evening.

Filtering through rush hour London. It wasn't too bad.
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[Wonko The Sane]

about 2005/2006 a friend had a yam divvy 600, I only had pushbikes for transport and didn't know the city well enough at that point to take the shorter routes.

gave me a lift places / picked me up to go somewhere together a few times, only once did I feel like I was about to come off the back when he accelerated quickly up a slipway onto the ring road to get away from someone being a muppet.

I didn't get a bike until 2012
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