To help her with her fear of falling off check out the videos for duck tape. Sorry couldn't help myself. I had the same problem with my wife for many years. With time she got more comfortable on the bike and it got better. Good luck.

 

Tell wifey to keep you straight up, not the bike

Seriously folks... you can explain and or show pics and vids of the passenger going with the flow. My wife did the same thing initially, but eventually caught on, and got comfy with the curves and such. Time & patience.

 

Maybe he ought to "trade in" the "current" model for one that is more curveish!! Ha! Ha! Just kidding!
Heck, I ride two up 99% of the time and don't even know my current model is back there. =0) But asking a woman to adapt quickly to the rolling hills and roads of Tn. after living in NY is a lot to ask. As you say "time and patience", but diamonds will to wonders! Ha! Ha!

By the way, WillyH, how did the R&R of your front tire go? Easy I hope.

Griff

 

Leave the wife at home. I do. [emoji16][emoji1303]

 

I like the " My current wife" line

 

Yeah. It's kinda like her "currency" is contingent upon.....

 

The trick is to ride her on a bike with no sissy bar or tour trunk. My wife rode the back of several of my sport bikes. When she has to hang on to you or fall off she’ll learn the way bikes move with the human body through various riding conditions.

 

Buy a t-shirt with this on the back. LOL SORRY I COULD NOT HELP MYSELF.

 

Man, based on the thread title, I thought I was in the NSFW section

 

Short version is
1. Passenger should lean with the bike (not necessarily the rider); and
2 passenger should look over the riders turning shoulder (when your turning right she looks over your right shoulder).

 

I told my wife to keep her shoulders inline with mine at all times. I don't believe that is the way it's taught but it's easier than trying to teach the when and where to lean. When she keeps her shoulders inline with mine she then tends to wrap her arms around, which isn't all that bad.

 

Just tell her to have dinner ready when you get home. Then duck.

 

I two up occasionally. I remember in high school. Me and my riding buddies met some chicks at a beach stop and they wanted to go on a ride with us with our street bikes.

Of course I picked the prettiest one and we took them to some curvy roads. The girl I was packing was leaning the opposite way so I kept slapping her helmet to re-adjust and to look into the turn with me.

Tell your wife when she leans the other way, you have to counterbalance lean farther in which makes the bike even closer to the ground. And hopefully should scare her due to that fact.

 

I two up occasionally. I remember in high school. Me and my riding buddies met some chicks at a beach stop and they wanted to go on a ride with us with our street bikes.

Of course I picked the prettiest one and we took them to some curvy roads. The girl I was packing was leaning the opposite way best stormi-world hoodie, so I kept slapping her helmet to re-adjust and to look into the turn with me.

Tell your wife when she leans the other way for best stormi-world hoodie, you have to counterbalance lean farther in which makes the bike even closer to the ground. And hopefully should scare her due to that fact.

yes this is a good idea for it.

 

My standard instruction to passengers, wife included, is "Sit down, shut up and hang on. I will control the bike, and I don't need you to help. Just move with the bike and everything will be fine."

The wife actually listens. Others, not so much ...

 

I told my son when he got his bike not long after getting married he should practice riding with a sack of potatoes on the back. Told our daughter in law she should practice being a sack of potatoes.

My wife has always been a great pillion. Most of the time when we have been on the one bike I barely knew she was there. But I did have to check she hadn't fallen asleep on occasion. Since she has had her license and is on her own bike she much prefers to be in control.

 

You moved to great area. Not far from ya. Take your wife to Jack Daniels. Plant tour very interesting. She will get it when comes to riding. Maybe she needs her own bike

 

Get her her own motorcycle, that way you don't have to deal with any of that, especially her yappin in your ear about "Slow down" "you missed that turn" " turn the music down", works great for me. LOL

 

My wife was a good passenger until she announced she wanted to drive. She now has two bikes of her own.

 

The very best solution is a wife that rides her own motorcycle. My wife has been riding since 1994. She wouldn’t ride as a passenger now. She’s a very good rider, and it allows us both to ride our own ride.

 

 

Hi folks,
My current wife has been creating problems for my riding that I just yeaerday figured out.
We've relocated from Spencerport, NY to Lawrencburg, TN, and there's a lot of roads down here with curves, as you well may imagine.
Ive been riding for 54 years, and the RoadMaster (my third two-up bike) takes the curves fine when I'm buy myself, and is easy to control as long as the pressure is up on the shock. (It's no Triumph Trophy, but typical for a heavy V-Twin.)
So yesterday, we took a 6 hr ride through a ton of HD curves, and every time i felt like I was fighting my way through the curves.
I was exhausted when I got home because of it.

In short, I find out that she leans opposite the direction the bike is going because she doesn't want to fall out...So I'm fighting my way through these curves while fighting my wifes lean also. No wonder I was tired. She thought she was supposed to remain straight up and down.

I did explain this to her early on, but obviously not succesfully, so really what I want is a YouTube (or anything) video or anything educational for the rider that explains visually what she's supposed to do. And I've promised her she will never fall out of the bike. I even thought of having someone follow in a car taking a video to see the problem.

Can anyone help me locate any instructional video for this rider problem?

Thanks,
Robert

Did your first wife fall off?

 

"Keep your body in line with mine and look over my turn side shoulder"....

 

"Current Wife" pretty much sums it up.

 

I'm a lucky guy. When we hooked up, I was 16 and my then-girlfriend was 14. My first street going motor vehicle was a motorcycle and I told her that she should imagine a steel rod going through her back, into the bike, causing her to lean WITH it. As the bikes got better and faster, we BOTH were hanging off the bike in the turns, with just two thighs still on the seat. Now that we're retired, we are well past those shenanigans, but her 100 pounds still have no ill effect on the bike's handling through the curves.
Whenever I was about to carry any other passenger, I always just told her that she should be looking ahead ONLY by looking past whichever side of my head matched the direction of travel. If we're making a left turn or curve, she should be looking past my left ear. It worked every time.

 

Concur with @Triumph900 - - get her a bike of her own. Worked for me...

 

Hi folks,
My current wife has been creating problems for my riding that I just yeaerday figured out.
We've relocated from Spencerport, NY to Lawrencburg, TN, and there's a lot of roads down here with curves, as you well may imagine.
Ive been riding for 54 years, and the RoadMaster (my third two-up bike) takes the curves fine when I'm buy myself, and is easy to control as long as the pressure is up on the shock. (It's no Triumph Trophy, but typical for a heavy V-Twin.)
So yesterday, we took a 6 hr ride through a ton of HD curves, and every time i felt like I was fighting my way through the curves.
I was exhausted when I got home because of it.

In short, I find out that she leans opposite the direction the bike is going because she doesn't want to fall out...So I'm fighting my way through these curves while fighting my wifes lean also. No wonder I was tired. She thought she was supposed to remain straight up and down.

I did explain this to her early on, but obviously not succesfully, so really what I want is a YouTube (or anything) video or anything educational for the rider that explains visually what she's supposed to do. And I've promised her she will never fall out of the bike. I even thought of having someone follow in a car taking a video to see the problem.

Can anyone help me locate any instructional video for this rider problem?

Thanks,
Robert

Some habits can be hard to break. If your wife is not used to taking more aggressive curves then back your speed off a bit and let her get used to keeping still on the curves. Once she get more used to that then slowly start getting more aggressive in the turns. If she can not get used to this she might have to keep her eyes closed in the turns to help correct that habit. Living in TN with the roads you have out there she might be keeping her eyes closed a lot. Lived in many different states, TN was the hardest state for me to leave. Love that area. Had to move for job reasons. Dean

 

Good training videos are M C rider and motor man Paladino. They have videos that explain the lean and reason.

 

I feel like my wife does a pretty good job thankfully. When I've taken other new passengers, I typically have to deal with the "I know what to do" attitude. They've heard it from others and feel like they need to do all this leaning. I always tell them that they don't have to do anything, I'll take care of all of it. They just keep their butt in the seat and don't lean at all. The bike will lean, and by them holding still, they follow.

My wife actually went the other way with riding. She started out riding her own bike but then fear and a lack of confidence got to her so now she rides 2 up.