One of the questions from my friend that I really want to know. Please HONESTLY tell me whether you will let your friend borrow your bike for a day, or a few hours.

Why, or why not? What is the unwritten rule?

Remember that your friend may get upset with you, and you may loose a friend.

To me, my bike is my "girl-friend", and my best companion.

 

No one borrows the bike!! Well almost no one. Have one or two buddies I ride with all the time who I would let use it if they needed too. " You wreck it, you buy it!!!"

 

One friend of mine would get the okay...the rest - NO! I suspect that friend would do the same for me.

 

Last time I let a friend (who was a VERY experienced rider) take mine for a ride, he was killed by a bitch that pulled out in front of him. I ended up with a wrecked bike & a dead friend...I got the bike fixed & rode up north a year or two later, where I promptly got into a fight with a lady I know who wanted to take my bike for a ride. She kept saying nothing would happen. I told her Steve didn't think anything would happen either...

Do what makes you comfortable but, remember, it's not always the riders fault when something goes horribly wrong.

That said, I used to ride my friends' & let them ride mine. No more. If it pisses them off that I want to keep them AND my ride in one piece, too bad.

 

I've got a couple of buddies that could use the bike any time they wish. It's know that if ya bust it, ya bought it.
It's a friggin motorcycle for Pete's sake.....

Beav

 

Thanks for the response.
What do you think if one of your good friends, who may cause an internal damage to the gear, clutch, braking/clutch cable, and many more things, and you have to deal with it after getting your bike back, and discover the damage a week later.

 

I am with you!
Sorry for your friend.
Ride Safe!

 

no one except my son, if you loose a friend because he says no than he is not really a friend, i would never ask anybody for use of motorcycle or trk or car period

 

A few of my friends can take my bike. They let me ride theirs so why not share. It's just a bike if something happened to it I can get another one but good friends are hard to find.

 

Just wonder! If it is just a bike, then why only for good friends, but not all friends.