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Tell your passenger to stay close to you.
Tell your passenger to stay close to you.
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Start with an "experienced" passenger. They can aid in your learning, then you can get the new to riding passenger up to speed faster. You'll be more aware of what the new rider is doing compared to an experienced one. You will notice a huge difference between the two in the beginning. Don't ride as close to another vehicle as you would solo. You will have more weight to balance, stop, start and manuever. Take your time.
Be gentle with acceleration, as the extra weight will make the front wheel come up easier. You are hanging onto the bars, but your marauder does not have a sissy bar so they are only held in place by their grip on you, so don;t gun it suddenly and be prepared to have the extra pull against your hands and arms. Give yourself more room to brake. Tell your passenger to keep their hands either on your hips or around your chest, and to keep their feet on the footpegs until the bike is shut off so that they don't cause you to fall over at a stop because the swung a leg out or tried to hop off the bike before you put the side stand down. make sure they know to only get on and off the bike from the left side, so they don;t pull it over with their weight.
Also, you will want to discuss one more thing with them: they will occationally want to stand up a little on the pegs and adjust their butt's possition on the seat, thus shifting their weight sudedenly from side to side. Tthis is best done at high speed when the centrifical force of the wheels makes the bike stable, but they will insist on doing it when you are just coming to a stop at a red light and are trying hard to ballance the bike, because they think it is safer at low speed that at high speed. Have this discussion with them BEFORE they get on the bike.
Also, you will want to discuss one more thing with them: they will occationally want to stand up a little on the pegs and adjust their butt's possition on the seat, thus shifting their weight sudedenly from side to side. Tthis is best done at high speed when the centrifical force of the wheels makes the bike stable, but they will insist on doing it when you are just coming to a stop at a red light and are trying hard to ballance the bike, because they think it is safer at low speed that at high speed. Have this discussion with them BEFORE they get on the bike.
Yep!trappercase said:
1. Get a backrest. Passenger retention is a good thing.
2. Tell the passenger that feet stay on the passenger footpegs until you stop and tell them to dismount.
3. Tell the passenger not to move around a lot or abruptly, and to gently lean when you lean.
4. The passenger is required to wear a skimpy leather bikini top, thong and buttless chaps.
5. If the passenger is male, please disregard the previous rule.. 8)
My regular passengers are all small, my 9 and 13 year old sons and my 5 foot tall girlfriend - none of whom tip the scales at much over 100 pounds. Lucky for me I don't have to drive around with Rosie O'Donnell on the pillion - see rule 4. and cringe.
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