Parents letting kids sit on my bike without permission, stupid and dangerous

[mybike]

Ladies,

Im not a mother but a female motor biker, something happened to me today thats inspired me to join this group and try and stop an accident happening. Today I came out of Asdas to find a mother letting her kids sit on my bike taking pics, without permission. its not that that bothers me (even though i admit i was annoyed, my bike was expensive and has custom paint work). A bike on a stand is a very dangerous thing and not a toy to drape you kids on. The exhaust is hot, screaming hot in fact so hot that it could burn through a childs leg/skin quite easily causing him/her to have months of painful skin grafts, also the three year old she'd plonked on my seat didnt look very steady at all, if the bike had fallen it could have caused serious damage to the child or worse crushed the child to death. I was horrified, when i told her politely to get the child off she laughed it off saying the kid wanted a ride. I tried to explain how dangerous it was and its not a toy, but the woman was oblivious to it all. I felt i had to come on here and explain the dangers.

I would have happily let them sit on it if i was there to supervise and she'd asked.

Please ladies dont let your kids sit on bikes without the owner there, its dangerous if you dont know what youre doing, i wont even go into the fact thats its my property, after all i wouldnt sit on your car fiddling with levers and mirrors etc would i? Most bikers are friendly, but my other half wouldnt have been so accommodating, in fact he wouldve picked the kid up and dumped him on the floor! And not very politely either...

Please have more respect and sense, bikes are/can be dangerous!

Thank you

My 2 year old also stands staring at bikes.

Honestly amazed anyone is stupid enough to put their children on one though. So weird.

As an aside - can leather melt?

I've had had this as well! Yes my bike is eye-catching, it's also expensive and potentially dangerous. Some people lack manners, boundaries and basic common sense.

splendide, leather doesn't melt the way that plastic does, but it can burn through. Many leather boots also have velcro fastenings, which might melt, and various waterproofing waxes etc will also melt.

Good advice OP. I find it incredible that any parent would even consider letting their child do this. Unfortunately,the ones that do probably won't be reading this,or if they are,won't take a blind bit of notice. And as someone said up thread,you can guarantee that if a child DID burn their leg on the exhaust,or get injured as a result of the bike falling on them,the parents would be trying to sue YOU for negligence!

I remember the time I had a moped to commute to work. I parked it on the street where the neighbours let their teenager sit on it (said teen was clearly obese), broke the stand and caused other damage. When I went to speak to them about their PFB breaking the stand I was met with "Well, you should have told him to get off". I replied that It's not my job to parent THEIR kid and if they or their teenager didn't pay for the replacement stand, and the repair of the other damage, I'd call the police and press charges against them.

They did try to twist it round to make it my fault for not watching my moped more closely, but I asked them why I should have to when it's their duty and obligation to teach their PFB not to go near other people's property. I ended up calling the police and they were forced to pay for the damage their DC caused. Luckily I had taken photos of my moped before the damage and after. Needless to say, thing were never the same between us