BTW, I ride a 1982 honda magna v45. My wife spends a lot of time on the back when we go to eastern Washington. She has actually fallen asleep on the back.
On one trip, we traded with my friend and we rode the zx-11. It was like riding on a rail compared to the old magna! Unfortunately it was very uncomfortable to my wife. The magna is just plain retro fun.
Funny, my wife falling asleep on the back of the ZX-11 was the main reason for selling it in favor of buying a car (bike was the sole means of transport at the time, and we were doing weekly long rides to a city over an hour away, with nighttime return trips). Two of my bikes were 87 "Supermagnas", and while they were fun, they got awfully uncomfortable if you planned a ride that used more than one (2.5-gal) tank of gas. My various passengers have told me, however, that the back of the Supermagna, with the backrest, was very comfortable. I figured that with a corbin seat and backrest for the passenger, the ZX-11 would be the near-perfect two-up mount (save that the early ones like mine cooked off the battery if you rode them on the highway for any great length of time).
Me: 2001 Honda ST1100
Sister 1: 1995 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic
Brother-in-law 1: 2004 H-D Electra Glide
Sister 2 and Brother-in-law 2 double up on a 2004 Goldwing Trike.
My dad had a bike when I was a kid, but he laid it down after having it for literally about 15 minutes. My mom made him sell it the next day. Looking back I think he forgot what hand and what foot did what, and I'm sure a Schlitz or two was involved as well.
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