If its the normal group of people that I ride with or if I know that they can ride then sure go for it, if you are clueless then you get the older beater.

 

Any of my friends, or family can try my bike. Don't get on someones bike and immediately hammer the crap out of it. Ease into it and have respect. Also if you are riding it and crash it, you to pay to fix it. Don't borrow anything unless you are prepared to cover your damages. How is your accident someone else's fault? YOU PAY. However, if something breaks under normal riding, I don't think you are really responsible, but If its your bud, the nice thing to do is still to offer to help pay the repair bill.
Dan

 

It depends. I have no problem with some friend's abilities and the answer is no effin way for others.

 

NO ONE rides the klx ... EVER! Im the only one just me

 

I let people ride the KLX as it is forgiving and tough. I only let experienced riders I trust and ride with get on the zx6r. I never ride a bike thats not mine. I feel unfaithful

 

Responces are totally varied, what I expected really. I used to let friends ride but I did have a number of bad things happen. Most due I think to people trying to ride em like I do and it not working out so well. The only dammage I've ever done to a friends bike was in the early 80's a friend loaned me his 250 KTM for a race and in a high speed sweeper turn crossed up it blew up and locked the rear tire. I somehow saved it and helped with the rebuild later but after that I never really wanted to ride somebody elses bike.

 

I'll let my experienced friends ride my bike but thats also because I know if they break it, they'll pay for the parts to fix it. Back in the early 90's when I had my 89 KX250, two different friends rode it and broke it. One was the rear fender, riding a wheelie he went past the tipping point and busted it off. Got a nice new rear fender out of that deal. The other time a friend of mine, and an inexperienced rider, tried to jump a huge chat pile and went over the bars and came down hard on the front forks and broke the aluminum handle bar brace. He payed for it but it was a few weeks before i could ride it. Took me awhile before i was able find the part and replace it. NO noobs will be riding my KLX. I learned my lesson on that..haha!

 

With age comes experience.

That doesn't mean experience is only granted to the old...but time in the seat is required to gain it. When I was young, I messed up a few machines that weren't mine, and I made sure I paid for it. That was my obligation for crashing something that wasn't mine (...and to the above post...unless some jerk pulled the truck bed ramp right out from under me on the way up...that's my own damn fault and I got some repairs to pay for!). Same still goes today. My friends all have the same mentality. But if they don't, they don't ride mine. I like: "you bend it, you mend it."

We all ride each other's machines..once that trust is earned and the risk weighed . It's one of they ways we figure out how to make ours a little better and to decide what we like...and don't. I regularly switch with my buddy and his Honda XR250....and also with our snowmobiles.

I got to ride a Yam Yz a few weeks ago. We both learned that we liked our own bikes better

 

Nope.