Teaching my wife to ride
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nolton
Living Legend
Ok lol, we did about 3 hours of training.
We started in the yard with throttle and clutch feel like Steel told me I should do. Worked perfect. The twist in all this is her boss from her second job wanted to learn too. She is 42 and never been on a bike.
All this moved to a ball park near by.
My wife did great. Shifted gears, tested herself and pushed her limit. She's comfortable.
She rode for a good while then it was the bosses turn. This chick is a natural !!
2 minutes playing with the clutch and throttle and off she went.
She had never been on a motorcycle and she rode like it was normal.
Both ladys took turns going around the field, building confidence, increasing speed.
After a short break, my wife decided to go again. She was too busy talking and forgot that she had the bike in gear. Yep, dropped it.
Over confident.
The chain has too much slack in it and it came off. I couldnt jump it back on so that ended the training for the day.
The boss wanted to ride with me on the Rocket so I took her on some new black top with plenty of twisties. At the turnaround point I asked her if I was going too fast. She was glowing and said "No, you almost got up to 100"
So I gave her the full treatment. Hard launch, 100+ mph, peg scraping, etc.
She booked the training class with my wife an hour later while asking bout the different brands of bikes.
We started in the yard with throttle and clutch feel like Steel told me I should do. Worked perfect. The twist in all this is her boss from her second job wanted to learn too. She is 42 and never been on a bike.
All this moved to a ball park near by.
My wife did great. Shifted gears, tested herself and pushed her limit. She's comfortable.
She rode for a good while then it was the bosses turn. This chick is a natural !!
2 minutes playing with the clutch and throttle and off she went.
She had never been on a motorcycle and she rode like it was normal.
Both ladys took turns going around the field, building confidence, increasing speed.
After a short break, my wife decided to go again. She was too busy talking and forgot that she had the bike in gear. Yep, dropped it.
Over confident.
The chain has too much slack in it and it came off. I couldnt jump it back on so that ended the training for the day.
The boss wanted to ride with me on the Rocket so I took her on some new black top with plenty of twisties. At the turnaround point I asked her if I was going too fast. She was glowing and said "No, you almost got up to 100"
So I gave her the full treatment. Hard launch, 100+ mph, peg scraping, etc.
She booked the training class with my wife an hour later while asking bout the different brands of bikes.
R3Tex
Living Legend
Nice job there Sensei....now you are all set for the weekend. I think you should let here ride her new Thruxton home from Houston 
nolton
Living Legend
Nice job there Sensei....now you are all set for the weekend. I think you should let here ride her new Thruxton home from Houston
SMARTA$$!!!!
Yea I know. It depends if they make me a good deal but yea yea yea, I know.
nolton
Living Legend
Video:
My wifes first ride on a motorcycle.
My wifes first ride on a motorcycle.
ozrider
2008 Standard
Good on you @nolton, Helen has been riding for about 4 years now, she had only ridden a push bike before that........ the biggest thing she liked is when we got a Scala intercom set, I could give her some advise as we all have been riding for so long we just do things by instinct.
She still struggles with parking so she pulls up, hops off and I do valet parking for her
She still struggles with parking so she pulls up, hops off and I do valet parking for her
nolton
Living Legend
Good on you @nolton, Helen has been riding for about 4 years now, she had only ridden a push bike before that........ the biggest thing she liked is when we got a Scala intercom set, I could give her some advise as we all have been riding for so long we just do things by instinct.
She still struggles with parking so she pulls up, hops off and I do valet parking for her
Thanks, it was fun until she threw the chain. I had to pull the cover off and take a link out of the chain.
Valet parking is spoiling her. Do you clean her bike too?
ozrider
2008 Standard
Valet parking is spoiling her. Do you clean her bike too? [/QUOTE]
Haha, no she cleans it and also lubes the chain after every ride
[/QUOTE]Haha, no she cleans it and also lubes the chain after every ride
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nolton
Living Legend
Valet parking is spoiling her. Do you clean her bike too?
Haha, no she cleans it and also lubes the chain after every ride
[/QUOTE]You should consider coming riding with us !!
