Carrying a heavy passenger

An anti-slip seat cover and a set of strap-on love handles which make a huge difference for both of us.

We gave up on Anti slip seat cover she learned it was comfier to change position occasionally, love handles are just good so she has some where comfy to put her hands. She is now confident enough to that shes noted to not use them at the most inappropriate moment.

Filtering shes been seen to "tap" wing mirrors of cars that have moved to block , her hand signals have been noted to be the ones not in the highway code .

If she gets carried away a blip on the throttle and she reaches for the love handles , although the abuse I then get in the head set , I have learned not to .

Yeah, I imagine both the cover and the handles are very bike and riding style dependant...

The seat on the GSXR is basically a child's seat, the grip cover doesn't stop her moving about but allows her a touch more friction under braking. The handles also make life much easier for us both under braking. They tend to transfer weight down and through the bike rather than her through her arms on the tank or what I feared before we tried them which was forwards and through me!

Before I introduced both of those she would end up on my seat at least once a ride. Again, likely because I was too lazy to adjust the preload appropriately.

An 18 stone pillion on a Harley just made the bike feel more planted. My usual pillion is half that and I was surprised at how little difference there was.

by "planted", do you mean "now I know why it's so slow - it's because we are heavy", where as without the pillion, there is lack of excuses to throw in? ... don't worry my old flying brick has 75 ponies (and still can do two-up with 20+ stone pillion, as long as I have the uprated rear shock, but that's without luggage and I am worried about the subframe - however checkint payload of other models which used the same frame and same generation of cardan shaft, the frame/subframe/... should have much higher capacity, they just designed the suspension for lower weight, so the rear shock upgrade (and cautious stopping/slowing down) all should be HOPEFULLY fine

An 18 stone pillion on a Harley just made the bike feel more planted. My usual pillion is half that and I was surprised at how little difference there was.

by "planted", do you mean "now I know why it's so slow - it's because we are heavy", where as without the pillion, there is lack of excuses to throw in? ... don't worry my old flying brick has 75 ponies (and still can do two-up with 20+ stone pillion, as long as I have the uprated rear shock, but that's without luggage and I am worried about the subframe - however checkint payload of other models which used the same frame and same generation of cardan shaft, the frame/subframe/... should have much higher capacity, they just designed the suspension for lower weight, so the rear shock upgrade (and cautious stopping/slowing down) all should be HOPEFULLY fine

 

An 18 stone pillion on a Harley just made the bike feel more planted. My usual pillion is half that and I was surprised at how little difference there was.

I could feel the bike was lower and so the centre of gravity felt lower.