Aggressive riding with a pillion

Started by El Matador, July 15, 2010, 11:55:51 AM

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bikepilot

Right on.  My wife and I spent a week strafing the Colorado front range twisties.  Riding hard 2-up can be quite fun.  Its also highly entertaining when you go around a purebread sport bike on the outside while 2-up on a Bandit with a week's worth of gear and sparks flying from the peg feelers  [evil]

I find that adding rear preload is generally pretty critical if your pillion is significantly over 100lbs.  Around 100lbs more preload certainly still helps, but seems less necessary on most machines. 
2009 XB12XT
2006 Monster 620 (wife's)
1997 TL1000S
1975 Kawasaki H1 Mach III
2001 CR250R (CO do-it-all bike)
2000 XR650R (dez racer)
2003 KX100 (wife's)
1994 DR250SE (wife's/my city commuter)