BIKE (UK)

It’s good to share

Pillion shenanigan­s are right up on the enjoyment scale with trackdays, trail-based adventures and roundabout silliness. Twice the people, double the fun…

- Mike Armitage

BRAKE, all time instead. the a air bike for TURN, and Especially half-hearted offers there’s apex, and a when making drive. cheery sauntering the Whatever. form progress, sun’s and perched high, I’m breezy but the up there’s on bend-swinging harvest for the sampling always pillion. scents It’s Today shut. we’re No matter trundling – we’ve to Mrs had A’s an uplifting favourite half-hour little antique shop. thrum across Leicesters­hire and Rutland, and after discussing things we’ve spotted in the fields (and the ludicrous dress sense of a dog-walker) we simply toddle off down unknown lanes instead. And find a lovely tea room. Sharing sensations you only get from the seat of a bike is a brilliant thing – and so is being able to babble about things afterwards.

This is part of the reason we haven’t got an intercom. There’s something pleasing about stopping and reliving the ride.

I also think not having a communicat­ion link brings the pillion’s experience closer to what I get as a rider. It also prevents the good lady wife from being able to divert me to any garden centres.

The pillion experience on this Ducati Multistrad­a 950 S Touring is a good one. Touring mode gives a super-smooth throttle and

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 ??  ?? Been riding for: 30 years Annual mileage: 30,000 Owns: 1990 Yamaha TDR250 and a 1973 Honda C50. ‘No, you’re not listening – I said stop at the garden centre...’ Deputy editor
Been riding for: 30 years Annual mileage: 30,000 Owns: 1990 Yamaha TDR250 and a 1973 Honda C50. ‘No, you’re not listening – I said stop at the garden centre...’ Deputy editor

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