Riding Two UP

[timalan]

When you go out for a ride on the weekend, do you go alone or take someone with you.

Wife loves to ride with me. But, when we meet up with others for lunch or something more often than not, we are the only couple.

Is that normal? Just curious.

 

[ShawnKing]

When you go out for a ride on the weekend, do you go alone or take someone with you. Wife loves to ride with me. But, when we meet up with others for lunch or something more often than not, we are the only couple.

Is that normal?

Well, "normal" is a loaded word but it's certainly not unusual. My wife (who rides her own bike) is *really* an anomaly - not only does she "let" me ride but she rides herself. And she rides a "sport bike" too. When we meet up with groups of riders (or just see them riding along), women are very rare on the back but even more rare riding their own bike.

 

[keithaba]

There are a lot of 2-up riders on this forum. Not sure how many are in OK though?

 

[Jagermeister]

My wife is a casual pillon. If the weather's good, she's happy to come along, and getting more and more comfortable (last year was her first experience).

 

[ionbeam]

My wife almost always rides with me. During sport oriented rides I back off enough to stay within a reasonable comfort zone for her (which is still pretty sporty). The rest of the time we either ride our own ride or match the group.

When I ride with my wife's friends and we stop for lunch I talk horses with them, I walk out our horses and do some of the grooming. When my wife rides with my friends she talks motorcycles, bike riding and motor sports. When my wife enters in Three Phase Eventing (horse competitions), the night before I do the grooming, tack cleaning and braiding. At the shows I do the saddling, cooling and grooming. When I'm in the garage farkling and I ask my wife to help, she hands me tools, assists and fetches whatever I need. Give some, get some, it works for us.

 

[timalan]

My wife almost always rides with me. During sport oriented rides I back off enough to stay within a reasonable comfort zone for her (which is still pretty sporty). The rest of the time we either ride our own ride or match the group.
When I ride with my wife's friends and we stop for lunch I talk horses with them, I walk out our horses and do some of the grooming. When my wife rides with my friends she talks motorcycles, bike riding and motor sports. When my wife enters in Three Phase Eventing (horse competitions), the night before I do the grooming, tack cleaning and braiding. At the shows I do the saddling, cooling and grooming. When I'm in the garage farkling and I ask my wife to help, she hands me tools, assists and fetches whatever I need. Give some, get some, it works for us.

Absolutely Cool.

I wish I could get my wife back into horses, she used to be quite the rider and competitions etc. She says horses cost too much now days. But I payed 12k for the horse I ride. But, I can leave it home for a month and nobody has to watch after it. The down side to a living horse.

 

[FastJoyRide]

Now that we are empty-nesters Sylvia has become a hardcore pillion! I will ride with her much more than without her this year including NAFO and the 3 Flags rally from Mexicali to Nanaimo. British Columbia. When the kids were still at home she rode very little. Times change!

 

[HaulinAshe]

GF has every other weekend off work. For that three-day period we ride two-up. Sometimes I swing by her place and we go for an evening ride. When it's time to go see Christmas lights, we ride. Vacation trips are planned in the saddle bag liners. Get the picture?

Two-up works great for us, but it requires hotel stays to really get anywhere fun.

Oh, there's no way anything about me classifies as "normal". GF is normal. I'm not.

 

[Niehart]

The only reason we ride with Jeff is because he brings Karen along. We like her, Jefff umm ...

 

[HaulinAshe]

The only reason we ride with Jeff is because he brings Karen along. We like her, Jefff umm ...

I KNEW I could count on somebody making me feel good about myself today. After all, it IS Friday.

Thanks Dave!

 

[Auburn]

We usually ride two up about 75% of the time.

 

[rogdeb]

If I'm on the bike, so is Debs .......... OK then -- 99.9% of the time, I do back it out the garage solo :lol:

 

[HYCLE]

I ride every day to work solo, but the weekend group rides are 2 up. Terri gets invited and I am just her driver.

This might change since she is taking the MSF course this weekend. She might have her own bike, or I can ride on back and take a nap.

 

[timalan]

I ride every day to work solo, but the weekend group rides are 2 up. Terri gets invited and I am just her driver.
This might change since she is taking the MSF course this weekend. She might have her own bike, or I can ride on back and take a nap.

Me too, solo commute. dual weekends.

Thanks, So there are what? ten of us who take our partner, of one kind or another.

 

[HYCLE]

I ride every day to work solo, but the weekend group rides are 2 up. Terri gets invited and I am just her driver.
This might change since she is taking the MSF course this weekend. She might have her own bike, or I can ride on back and take a nap.

Me too, solo commute. dual weekends.

Thanks, So there are what? ten of us who take our partner, of one kind or another.

On DrRich's last group ride there were 19 bikes and 7 were 2up. Capay Ride

 

[bluejag]

We are also 2up on most rides. wife enjoys any time we can get out and leave the B.S. stress behind The bike is set up with

Russell,Garauld's rack/backrest,Starcom,Garmin with xm/mp3. so she is quite content. A friend of mine,his wife can actually take a nap on long rides My wife makes sure I don't! I also have a very different mindset / riding style when 2up as you can understand.. P.S. Alan you two don't ride 2up in three phase event's do you? LOL

 

[XHD4FJR]

Of the six couples who compose are most frequent riding friends my wife is one of two women who do not ride their own bike. After a slow start she now really looks foward to riding and we've done many 3-10 day trips together rain or shine. If I'm riding my Ultra she is with me 75% of the time. She's only done a few short rides on the FJR and I hope she will come to enjoy it as much as I do! She has also mastered the art of sleeping while riding much to the amusement of our friends. I've found traveling together on the bike to be some of the best times we have had in the 29 years we've been together.

 

[ShawnKing]

She has also mastered the art of sleeping while riding much to the amusement of our friends.

Is it just me or does anyone else find that *really* freaky? My wife can do the same and I have no idea how she can manage it!

 

[fjrob1300]

I like to nap on those really long straights.