Scrambler How Does The Street Scrambler Perform With A Pillion Rider?

Think the tiny pillion seat squab is rather impractical for comfort and none of my potential pillions will go anywhere near it. My local dealer said one customer returned his new bike after a couple of weeks as his wife flatly refused to go out on it. It’s best fun riding by yourself blatting round country lanes so would suggest a different bike be more suitable for two up. ..it is a fantastic bike otherwise but then that is it’s style. .. just my two pennyworth of course

 

An old thread, but the Street Scrambler is poorly suited to a second rider. The exhaust gets quite hot on their leg, the little seat is basically a farce put there only as an visual accessory suitable only for the transport of children or exceptionally small adults. Perhaps with the bench seat installed, it would offer some more options, but even then you still have the high exhaust on the passenger's leg.

I have the Vance and Hines exhaust, and the heat shield on that is little more than a powder coated frying pan that cooks flesh with incredible efficiency.

If you are a rather rotund person, as I am, you will certainly bottom out your shocks with a passenger unless you live in some asphalt utopia free of potholes and frost heaves on the road -- and this is with max preload adjustment.

So the numbers:
$450 for a proper two up seat.
$450 for replacement shocks.

Can you find a better two up bike considering you're looking at $900 USD to add a rider to the Street Scrambler?

 

I went for the so called "comfort seat" for an extra £100 from new. So far ok with Mrs Marky and we have done a couple of runs down to Cornwall from Clevedon with only a couple of comfort breaks on route. Yes exhaust gets a tad hot but neither of us have burnt ourselves yet.

 

That looks a pretty comfy seat ... does having a pillion on the SS cause any power, handling or balance changes?... I always ride solo on mine... (hmm ...yes a definite lack of trust from my Mrs), so have put the rack on instead of the rear seat to pretend I didn’t want her on it anyway

 

Yes, all of the above. The bike is very boggy when you have an a passenger on it.

 

As this is the most powerful bike i have owned, it seems fine power wise. I guess most bikes wont have as much go when you plonk an extra 10st on it.
Handling wise all seems good but the Mrs has always been a very good pillion

 

If your Mrs. is a 'very good pillion' be VERY thankful. And NEVER encourage her to ride her own bike because she'll almost certainly cease to be a good pillion overnight. I can empathise because I have to control the urge to scream; bail out; lean the opposite way or lean further in to turns whenever I get on the back of anybody else's bike!

My "worst" encounter was allowing my brother to take charge of my 900 Trident when it was still fairly new. I have never, ever felt so close to involuntary bowel movement and imminent death in my long and largely boring life. The reason? Well, maybe not "reason" but explanation - he's Police Class 1 advanced pursuit trained with many, many years on motorcycle patrol.

I managed to hold it together for the 15 minute journey on the unclassified back lanes of Devon. Actually, in all honesty, by the time we stopped I was just about getting to the point of enjoying(?) the ride. By then, of course, I'd mentally rewritten my will 3 times; sworn to never again be in any way critical of "dem bizzies"; repeated the Hail Mary - though I'm not a Catholic - and whispered a silent and almost tearful "goodbye" to my wife and my mother! I did have an open faced helmet on so the tears were easy enough to 'hide'.

The serious point is - it takes a LOT of courage, faith and trust to put your safety and your life into the hands of someone in charge of a potentially lethal machine, and it's not an easy thing to do. I have a great deal of respect for pillions and endless admiration for those that are good at, and enjoy, being there.

My Mrs. now rides her own bike. 'Nuff said?!

 

Bit disappointed you can’t remove pillion pegs from the SS, previous bike was two bolts each side and binned. Dealer’s suggestion, ‘ a hacksaw’.

 

Hmmmmm ... wonder how the dealer would replace a rear peg if it got broken

 

12mm socket is all that is needed to remove rear pegs from the SS.
I would also change dealer with that ridicules suggestion.

 

Eh?

Upi can either remove just the pegs by undoing the nut, or remove the whole peg mounting brackets by removing 2 allen screws on either side

 

Thanks for the help I’ll get my socket set out rather than the blade I really need a manual only had the bike a month Thanks again

 

I would say the SS is aimed primarily at solo riding with " a lift down to the shops" two up capability rather than touring. Rider /pillion weights will obviously play a big part here. If you're 150lbs with a similar passenger the bike will fair much better than a 2 x 240lb+ combination.

 

One of the main reasons I just picked out the Street Scrambler was for pillion duty. I looked at other similar bikes, but this one seemed like it had the best options for comfort for two (vs the Ducati, Yamaha SCR, BMW R Nine T, even looked at a Svartpilen, etc..).

Just put a payment down and haven't even ridden the bike (dealer doesn't allow ), let alone with the girlfriend, so I can't say yet how it really is, but coming from a Honda Grom I can't imagine I'll feel like it's underpowered at all! Luckily, for suspension mine already comes with the Fox upgraded shocks.

Researching seats turns up numerous options for 2-up riding that look quite promising. That official Triumph "comfort" seat looks like maybe the best option.

 

MARKYMARKTHREE, do you happen to have a part # for that seat?

 

Have a look at the triumph configure site and the seat is in the comfort section. Part no i believe is A9708509.
https://www.triumphmotorcycles.co.u...-f16d-4f13-937c-5cd042e26497/configure#config

 

Thanks! I've just ordered it. Should arrive in a couple weeks