Gettin yer leg over....
 

Yep, it's one of those rip the pi$$ out of Jools if you want threads, cos I have trouble getting my leg over...well, on the bike that is...well, now I think about it...enough, back to the plot.

I know that leathers restrict your movement a bit, but when I get on the bike it's always a bit of a struggle swinging my leg clean across the saddle. After every rideout, on either one of my bikes, there are those tell tale scuff marks across the back of the seat unit where my boot or my leg has just clipped it. I don't suppose it helps that the seat height on both my bikes is about equal to my inside leg measurement but I've also noticed it on lots of other peoples bikes...I'm not alone...you know who you are...

Funny thing is, I've been doing karate training for years, and although I'm no Jackie Chan I can still kick either leg above my head height...so why do I have so much trouble getting on the effin bike without leaving black boot marks :confused:

Alright so I couldn't kick that high with leathers on, but it's not because I'm old, decrepit and inflexible...just old and decrepit. Perhaps it's the side I dress and the weight of my massi.....

Whatever, I know it sounds daft but has anybody got a foolproof method of getting on the bike cleanly without a ladder or one of those things they used to get knights onto a horse.

BTW...I'm fine when I'm actually on the bike......allegedly :lol:




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Wear slippers :D

Ask Sadie to give you some 'special' exercises Jools;) :devil:

I've tried that, but then my tray of cocoa and hob nobs keeps falling off the petrol tank and my dressing gown belt gets caught in the gear shift...everytime I go to change gear it tightens the belt and makes me fart

Oh, by the way, that dressing gown thing isn't the 'special' exercises....

Mind you, I don't think the 'special' exercises that Sadie is giving me are very good...I mean, all she says is "Here, put on this balaclava, go down into the garden and hide in the coal shed for three weeks"...I mean...how does that help anybody?

are you in the SAS?

Jools
I've read this thread and there seems to me to be a variety of issues troubling you at the moment. I suggest that scuff marks on the seat unit are the least of them. ;)

:devil:

Im a shortass so i put my left foot on the foot peg push down straightening the leg at the same time as swinging my right leg over, works for me :)

Yes this option is the best, ESPECIALLY if the bike is tall. Try it, you put your knee on the seat and 'pivot' your bent knee on the seat which means your boot is in the air, and a swift over you're on, no scuff marks, and for bikes like the multistrada where it's a tall bike anyway but the pillion seat is higher, most people have to do that to get on those anyway!

Try it.... It's also worked for my shorter female friend who had trouble swinging her leg over the bike was always afraid of kicking it over the 'wrong' way, she's found it a great help.

That one I can definately appreciate!!:( It's a bloomin pain being short!!:mad:

Melnie Mouse with her legs in the air ... must resist ... ummm ...

Hi Mel! That's a good suggestion! How you doing, sweetie?

:D

Hi, oi you, and hey not seen you for a while, how ya doing too? xx

i saw a girl at box actually getting on a bmw, she had to move it to the kerb by exit, and then hop on her bike with knee pivoting, but i wondered then, as she rides out, (which is up hill there isn't it?) what if she has to stop to give way to traffic, there are no kerbs there, and i did think perhaps then was a little dangerous...

Cambers are always grief too. When I had my 900 monster, I had 2 inches taken out of the seat so I could touch the floor comfortably. :lol: That's why hats off to Valentina! Respect lass :D

Hey Mel, you have a PM. Don't let me down now, I'm counting on you ;)

Loz
xx

thanks. but er... counting on me for????? Should I know???? You're not getting all smutty again are you???? :D

Yeah I've got a friend who's done that too. She and another friend have also got those Daytona boots which no one can tell they've got inside 3/4 inch step up on heel, which helps.

Luckily with Ducati's most of the seats become narrow at the tank end, so more people can ride them, but not many bikes if they don't do that, give us much option!

Yeah. On the Monster previous to the last one, we put the pre-load down but that just made the damn thing bounce all over the place :lol: fun but scarily out of control :eek:

Oh i know.. ha ha I sound like sybil off Faulty Towers, i rode a 999 once just for an evening, to go to Poole Quay, but i only got as far as Southampton, and went home, didn't feel safe on it, as the whole suspension was set so hard, every where I rode, my bum was bouncing out of the seat. It was so awful, I felt like i couldn't ride properly or even counter steer, whole thing needed re-setting up, maybe it was set up for racing for a 20 stone bloke or something!

Oooooo er there's a thought :lol:

oh, did you want a 20stone bloke then?

Naaa :eek: Anyway I couldn't eat one all at once :lol: :lol:

ha ha, no me neither... anyway I'm vegetarian, I'll stick to me chocolate... On that note, just popping a button in my mouth, I really ought to do some more work!

nice chatting :)

Jools don't worry, i'm no short arse but i still do it from time to time, doh!

wot YOU eat a 20 stone man!?

Yeah me too the boss has just come in. Catch ya laters:)

Prefer 20 stone of chocolate:lol: :lol:

Err but only if its a 20 stone chocolate man, might explain whi i'm so gross:lol:

...but you promised not to tell, hopefully nobody will notice it's me :eek:

Jools, a lot of the restriction is due to the leathers but it's mainly down to the way that your leg bends when you kick compared to when you get off the bike - if you can side-kick to head height then you shouldn't have any problems!

Try lifting your knee up in front of you first and bend your leg. Put your weight on the left handlebar, lean forward and then pivot your right leg over the bike around your hips. It will either work beautifully or your mates will be picking you up off the floor!

I dunno what the fuss is all about.
But I think we need videos of all these techniques !
1) If you see yourself doing something in a vid its usually not quite how you think you're doing it, and if you have done, or especially taught, kata you should appreiciate this.
2) We really could do with some new interactive entertainment :saint:





btw I'm 6ft1 ;)

Seem to recall Henners trying this method at the 3-Cross open day earlier this year when he came down on his blade with Stu on his GSXR. Henry tried this method of remounting and got confused when his key wouldn't fit, we hadn't the heart to tell him it was somebody else's CBR600RR and not his Fireblade :rolleyes:

:lol:

Not to hot on keys then:lol: :lol:

Back on thread ....

.... carry with you one of those collapsible stools that painters and decorators use to reach those difficult corners.

May not look cool but it will solve your problem :D

I do....everytime I outbrake myself :lol:

... and I thought it was tyre smoke and exhaust fumes I could smell! :lol:

ha ha nice one Paul... :)

Have you had a good holiday?


BDG - a 20 stone man made of chocolate.. now that would be scrummy! where can I get one from? Have you got one?

and yeah that's exactly how it's done, good description! :)

Not looking forward to my ride home, very yuk today isn't it?