does your wife/gf ride?

[kyles here]

to get things out of the way... yes shes hawt, no I wont post pics :boobies :laughing

mine rides 2 up with me all the time but lately shes been wanting to learn, get her license, get her own and eventually do a trackday with me :wow :ride:teeth Id love to ride with her but damn Im scared, is this how they feel when we go out for a ride?

 

[Joseppi]

my wife is afraid to ride,i took her on a 2 stroke suzuki quad years ago back in the late 80s and she will never get on a bike again,,these are her words,i ruined her of ever wanting to ride,

 

[sckego]

I pretty much dragged her to the MSF and made her get a license, got her a 250 to learn on, took her out for a few rides (maybe ~1k miles total), one trackday... but she never got hooked. It's been probably 3 or 4 years since she's swung a leg over on her own. She just likes to sit on the back of mine and enjoy the ride... ah well, I tried. =P

 

[ScottRNelson]

I've averaged about once every five years getting my wife on a motorcycle. She's fine with me riding.

She doesn't like horses either.

At least she will now ride a bicycle.

 

[i_am_the_koi]

Taught mine to ride last year on my old bike. She loved it until the bike got wrecked in the DMV parking lot as she was waiting to take her test.

Fast Forward a year and I got her a 250, starting over. She takes the test in a few weeks and hopefully will have her license soon. Then a trackday later this year or early next year.


She's hooked. :laughing

 

[MikeyRocks]

Mine wanted to learn, she enjoyed riding on the back of my bike. Then we had a kid, so she no longer has a desire to learn. Too bad because now I have two bikes. :laughing:ride

 

[Biker&wheeler]

Just on the back. But she always wants to ride, never complains about speed or distance. Been over 700 miles two up on the multistrada. I feel safer with her on the back than riding.

 

[Wicked4Racin]

Wife rides, got her license because she was too "fearfull" to ride on the Busa with me. While at work one day she pulls up solo on the Busa, takes her helmet off and says, "dam this thing is fast". She's about 120lbs with her winter coat and 5'7". Now she rides a brand new victory Vegas. Definitely makes my insides tickle watching her ride and enjoy it as much as I do. ...she also likes dirt biking more than me and I love it! 7 years of moto happiness and hope for many more with her!

 

[westie]

Wife hasn't ridden since I picked her up for a date on the ZX-7R. Daughter has feared 2 things since birth, snakes and motorcycles. So naw.

 

[ocoas]

My wife rides.
She took the class and when she passed we went to the dealer and she got the bike she felt comfortable on. Honda 250 rebel.
She rode it for a year got a couple thousand miles, sold it and got a bigger bike.

The smartest think she could have done, started on a smaller bike.

We also got a set of radios so we could talk bike to bike.
Which mostly consisted of me saying SLOW DOWN. You need to slow down coming into the corner, you can speed up on the exit!:laughing

 

[angelsndevils]

Only in the dirt. If she masters the dirt then maybe some street.

 

[corndog67]

My wife rode a scooter in Suriname, her native country. I got her riding a KTM 500 MX on Pismo Beach, she liked it. Got a YZ250 and she rode that. Bought her a GZ250, she rode that a handful of times, then she wanted a Sportster. (No you don't, yes I do, no you don't, yes I do), so I bought her a Sportster. "It's so heavy". It doesn't turn well. No it doesn't. And the brakes sucked. So she started riding my Ducati S4. Twice as much power. Excellent brakes. Turned very well. She loved it. One day, we hop on the freeway and get to San Luis Obispo and I point to an exit, and she goes into a 15 mph turn, at about 70. I see her grab a big handful of front brake and I see the wheel lock, but she let off, reapplied the brake and made the turn. Scared the shit out of both of us, and she didn't want to ride any more

I was relieved, all I could think of was her bouncing down the road and it terrified me.

 

[Pking]

Wifey hates bikes, will never get on a bike, and hope one day I will decide to stop riding.....












...but buys me a new bike for my birthday:thumbup

 

[Toast]

My gf doesn't ride, she has expressed mild interest before but I hope she never really wants to get one. Judging by her driving she would get seriously injured... Drives too fast, too impatient and can't make snap decisions.

 

[ratlab]

wife rides,even with a lot of dirt experience it was scary at at first.her skills have really improved and now it's a blast.

 

[Burning1]

We met on a ride. My wife's been riding longer than I have.

We built her track bike together. Most of my track-days have been done with her. On a few occasions, I've held an umbrella while she's done laps.

We've done 1200 mile multi-day trips together, tent camping in national parks.

A good weekend involves waking up at 6:00AM to the smell of race gas.

 

[CurveSurfer]

my g/f has been riding about a year longer than I have (~15 years each).

she hates riding pillion.

she rides more miles annually than i do too, as she commutes 2-3x per week on her bike and i only ride on the weekends.

i don't worry much, unless i expect her home and she's running late. then i get anxious imagining bad outcomes on her freeway commute.

but she's had no accidents in over 75k miles...better than my record too.

 

[deathbug74]

she hates riding pillion.

i don't worry much, unless i expect her home and she's running late.

mine started riding ~6 months after i did...we met through work, i had a bike, she was interested in riding, and came along as a passenger; got msf out of the way shortly after and picked up a bike and her license.

my record is (arguably) marginally better (panic brake lowside, vs a couple low speed cornering lowsides for her). i will say the feeling of watching her go off the road behind me in the rearview is about the worst feeling ever, and took all i had not to u-turn right where i was (blind corner). for the record, she was fine, front wheel a little awry, but just needed the forks straightened in the triples.

on the flip side, i don't think there's any better feeling than sharing a good ride arty

 

[Pushrod]

Rode with my wife to a lakeside park to watch/photograph the sunset. As we were looking at the water a minivan creamed my bike. Totaled it.

After saying "That could have been us", she never got on a bike again.

 

[kxmike]

I taught my wife to ride...got her in to track days..then road racing with AFM....sometimes I wish she had taken up sewing....we're always broke!:laughing