04-08-2015, 03:33 AM
...especially if she's your wife and doesn't want to wear any?
This is a twist to the discussion about safety tips/gear in the other thread. Here's the back story. My wife has only been lukewarm about my motorcycle habit and never wanted to ride with me until I told her I was buying a new bike. She's invested herself in my decision to the extent that she gave me the go-ahead with the stipulations that it wasn't a “Ninja” (the term she uses to describe anything that remotely looks like a sport bike) and it had to have a backrest. The other bike I gave serious consideration to was the Yamaha FJ-09 but when I showed her the picture, that was the end of that.
The good news is that she really likes the CB. With a top-case as her backrest she really feels comfortable on this bike and she loves the look. The bad news, to me anyway, is that she flat out told me she doesn't want to wear any gear, except for a helmet.
I've been an ATGATT guy since day one and have no problem with those that choose not to be. I truly believe in “to each his own”. But I was taken aback buy the forcefulness of her statement. It's one thing to espouse a live-and-let-live attitude toward the general population but it's another thing altogether when it's someone you love and don't want to have to keep taking to the hospital for skin grafts on her butt after even a minor spill.
Have any of you experienced anything like this? What do you require your passengers to wear?
This is a twist to the discussion about safety tips/gear in the other thread. Here's the back story. My wife has only been lukewarm about my motorcycle habit and never wanted to ride with me until I told her I was buying a new bike. She's invested herself in my decision to the extent that she gave me the go-ahead with the stipulations that it wasn't a “Ninja” (the term she uses to describe anything that remotely looks like a sport bike) and it had to have a backrest. The other bike I gave serious consideration to was the Yamaha FJ-09 but when I showed her the picture, that was the end of that.
The good news is that she really likes the CB. With a top-case as her backrest she really feels comfortable on this bike and she loves the look. The bad news, to me anyway, is that she flat out told me she doesn't want to wear any gear, except for a helmet.
I've been an ATGATT guy since day one and have no problem with those that choose not to be. I truly believe in “to each his own”. But I was taken aback buy the forcefulness of her statement. It's one thing to espouse a live-and-let-live attitude toward the general population but it's another thing altogether when it's someone you love and don't want to have to keep taking to the hospital for skin grafts on her butt after even a minor spill.
Have any of you experienced anything like this? What do you require your passengers to wear?