I brought this up in another post and just wondered what others thought, I was brought up that you don't share your ride, meaning Don't ask to ride my bike and I wont ask to ride yours.
But attitudes have changed some and I was just wondering if that was still the way things are?
Do you let others ride your Bike?

 

Only if they pay for it first, but then it would be their bike.
So I guess the answer is NO.

 

In my life there are two or three.

 

nothing good ever happens riding somebody else's bike. I ride others bikes because I work on bikes and have to road test them, but I hate it. and unless some kind of emergency, nobody rides mine

 

The only others that are offered to be able to ride my bike are my brothers who both own Harleys and have years of experience. Not that that guarantees anything but helps my piece of mind. And usually the only time would be if we did a new modification that we wanted the other to try out. Other than that I believe it was best said "I wouldn't ask to ride your wife so don't ask me to ride my bike!"

 

I tell people that ask me to ride theirs, no thanks, it's like riding your wife. You just don't do it. No one asks me to ride mine.

 

Wait, if the dude don't mine me riding his wife, I'm good with that. I won't ask of coarse.
But they still aren't riding my scoot.

 

There are only three (3) people ride my bike. ONLY THREE.

And those are ME, MYSELF and I.

No one else.

 

No one outside of my family touches my bikes...

 

Yes I do.

It's just a hunk of iron. In the winter sometimes our friends come over for dinner early and if we go for a ride and they ride my Heritage and we ride the Ultra Classic. Sometimes we switch off and they ride the bagger. It's too cold and dark for them to ride the 40 miles home in December / January at night on their Softail, so we'll do a short day ride. Also we did a two day Napa ride with a group while their bike was down and they took our Softail.

I also let another friend who was between bikes ride it when a group of us did a two day Tahoe ride. I have plenty of insurance and have good relationships with my long time friends. My ability to help them out is far more important to me than any motorcycle. I have no emotional attachment to any inanimate object.

I've also loaned my KTM to a friend that wanted to go do a weekend the desert with a group. He and his wife have five kids (two in college) and a dirt bike is not in the budget right now.

Somewhat of a paradox because among my friends I have a reputation of being **** to the point of obsessiveness about how I keep my stuff.