Do you let friends ride your bike?
#111
10-04-2009, 07:42 AM
Let a female friend ride my 883Low once, figuring she had more riding experience than me, and rode a bigger bike. Felt bad because we were on a group campout and her bike was not running, so I rode bitch on her hubby's bike. Just a short ride. Then let a male friend who helped do a handlebar switch on my Nightster. Felt obligated. But TERRIFIED.
Anyway, don't know what posessed me those times, but I will never let anyone ever again ride my bike, except my hubby. Well, the mechanic too. If I drop my bike, I'll be pissed at myself. And I would forgive my hubbyn if he did. (Eventually). The mechanic - well, he'd have to make good however necessary. But anyone else, I would probably remain pissed at for a very long time. So why ruin a friendship over it??
Only other people I would ever remotely consider letting ride my bike wouldn't ask.
Anyway, don't know what posessed me those times, but I will never let anyone ever again ride my bike, except my hubby. Well, the mechanic too. If I drop my bike, I'll be pissed at myself. And I would forgive my hubbyn if he did. (Eventually). The mechanic - well, he'd have to make good however necessary. But anyone else, I would probably remain pissed at for a very long time. So why ruin a friendship over it??
Only other people I would ever remotely consider letting ride my bike wouldn't ask.
#112
10-04-2009, 08:29 AM
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After 35 years in the saddle, when asked "do you want to ride my biake". my answer is always "No, I want to stay friends".
Same goes for my ride, no one operates it but me.
Same goes for my ride, no one operates it but me.
#113
10-04-2009, 09:46 AM
In a word, NO. My friends that I ride with obviously have their own bike, and those who don't ride are the ones who usually the ones who ask. No freaking way.
#114
10-04-2009, 03:26 PM
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I am confused! Should I count the tourist that I caught sitting on my bike, bouncing up and down while saying Varoom-Varoom right before he was choked out? If so then 2, him and the mechanic. If not then just the mechanic...
#116
10-04-2009, 06:37 PM
Only my mechanic. And has been said over and over "Letting someone ride my bike is like letting someone take my wife to bed".....mechanic does not know where I live.
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10-04-2009, 06:49 PM
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10-04-2009, 10:52 PM
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+ 1... When I first started riding, back in 1978, an old biker I worked with shared two things with me... 1) Don't ask to ride my bike, If I didn't ask to ride your old lady 2) When you think you're the best rider around... get rid of it.. quick.!
