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To: Tucker39

My wife, bless her heart, never understood how to ride as a passenger. When I’d take a corner, she’d lean the opposite way.


13 posted on 02/14/2017 4:43:32 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
Turning at speed isn't caused by leaning.

It's caused by counter steering. Next time ya go into a sweeper notice which hand pushes, and which one pulls. You actually turn the wheel right to go left, that's what makes you lean, riding on a smaller area back and off the center of the front wheel.

17 posted on 02/14/2017 5:22:29 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: hanamizu

Bungee chord her to you. Works great.


19 posted on 02/14/2017 5:35:49 PM PST by SanchoP
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To: hanamizu
My wife, bless her heart, never understood how to ride as a passenger. When I’d take a corner, she’d lean the opposite way.

Whoops! Did you ever drop her from the bike? Before I married my wife, she rode on my motorcycle as a passenger. One day I went off road on a mountain, went up over a ridge and hit a rut in the path. The motorcycle stopped cold at the rut, I slammed into the steering bar, but she kept going over my body and tumbled down a hillside. She had mild scratches and bruises, but was pissed. Yelled at me to take her home, and never rode on my motorcycle again - ever. We've been married almost 50 years, and she's still pissed about that motorcycle ride.

21 posted on 02/14/2017 5:38:11 PM PST by roadcat
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To: hanamizu

Same problem, solved it by just taking my girlfriend and left the wife home.


29 posted on 02/14/2017 7:11:53 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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