The "biker" wave
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From: Houston (Area)
RE: The "biker" wave
Can't we all just get along?
You can never take a few people's actions and apply it to an entire group. I live near the beach and I see stuff I can't believe. I have been on my bike, going pretty fast and a crotch rocket passes me in my lane doing 100+. What if I didn't see him and was about to get over? I have been in my car and have seen crotch rockets weaving in and out of traffic at dangerous speeds. I see guys on the freeway standing up on wheelies doing 70+ mph. I don't form an opinion all crotch rocket riders, beacause all croctch rocket riders don't ride that way.
I have run into some rude cruiser ridders too. Especially when I'm out just me and my wife and we come across a group of riders. I have been at a light and some one pulls up like they are going to talk to me and gun their pipes in our ears and take off when the light turns green.
What about the riders that ride up with the confederate flags and mean what that flag stands for?
Let's not talk about the infamous shirt "God made Hondas......"
My point is, everyone is not the same and you can't put everyone in the same category. If everyone was the same, this world would be a boring place to live.
You can never take a few people's actions and apply it to an entire group. I live near the beach and I see stuff I can't believe. I have been on my bike, going pretty fast and a crotch rocket passes me in my lane doing 100+. What if I didn't see him and was about to get over? I have been in my car and have seen crotch rockets weaving in and out of traffic at dangerous speeds. I see guys on the freeway standing up on wheelies doing 70+ mph. I don't form an opinion all crotch rocket riders, beacause all croctch rocket riders don't ride that way.
I have run into some rude cruiser ridders too. Especially when I'm out just me and my wife and we come across a group of riders. I have been at a light and some one pulls up like they are going to talk to me and gun their pipes in our ears and take off when the light turns green.
What about the riders that ride up with the confederate flags and mean what that flag stands for?
Let's not talk about the infamous shirt "God made Hondas......"
My point is, everyone is not the same and you can't put everyone in the same category. If everyone was the same, this world would be a boring place to live.
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Way Down Texas Way
RE: The "biker" wave
Well,
The other day I was riding my Wideglide and turned onto a secondary 4-lane street just as a middle-aged lady was coming by going my way. She was wearing a big helmet and regular eyeglasses and had a business suit on and a briefcase type thing strapped on the back of a brand-new scooter with bags and baskets and the whole nine yards. You could tell the price of gas had gotten so high that this lady had gone out and bought a scooter to save on gas and was going to work.
She was in the lane next to me at the next light but stayed a bike length behind me behind the paint stripe. When the light changed, I let her go on and pass me in the other lane and go ahead. When she went by, I smiled and waved at her. She was trying not to look at me and be invisible but I waited until she looked around. When I waved she just smiled and her face turned red and she sat up real straight on the scooter and I could see she wanted to wave back but was startled by the whole thing.
I think she had an orgasm right there on the Scooter seat. By god, right then and there she was a BIKER!! A guy on a Harley had waved at her...she was two-in-the-wind on the free an open highway going to work at her 8:00 job. Good for her....I'll bet that in another two months she convinces her husband she needs a bagger.................
Regards,
Draggin S
The other day I was riding my Wideglide and turned onto a secondary 4-lane street just as a middle-aged lady was coming by going my way. She was wearing a big helmet and regular eyeglasses and had a business suit on and a briefcase type thing strapped on the back of a brand-new scooter with bags and baskets and the whole nine yards. You could tell the price of gas had gotten so high that this lady had gone out and bought a scooter to save on gas and was going to work.
She was in the lane next to me at the next light but stayed a bike length behind me behind the paint stripe. When the light changed, I let her go on and pass me in the other lane and go ahead. When she went by, I smiled and waved at her. She was trying not to look at me and be invisible but I waited until she looked around. When I waved she just smiled and her face turned red and she sat up real straight on the scooter and I could see she wanted to wave back but was startled by the whole thing.
I think she had an orgasm right there on the Scooter seat. By god, right then and there she was a BIKER!! A guy on a Harley had waved at her...she was two-in-the-wind on the free an open highway going to work at her 8:00 job. Good for her....I'll bet that in another two months she convinces her husband she needs a bagger.................
Regards,
Draggin S
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From: Union City TN
RE: The "biker" wave
i wave at everybody now that i can take my hands off the bar and not scare the crap outta myself
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RE: The "biker" wave
I'll wave back to anyone that waves to me. I've noticed that it's usually the sport bikes that don't wave. I don't really care either way. If you wave to me and I don't wave back it's because I didn't see you. I may be focusing on a potential road hazard up ahead and not see you till it's too late. If I'm sitting in traffic and have my hand on the clutch then I'll at least nod to someone. I don't care what you ride and I definitely don't stare at a biker trying to decipher what kind of bike he/she's on before I make a decision to wave or not.
Road Master
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RE: The "biker" wave
I just do one big blanket wave before leaving my driveway to take care of the 1300 bikes I'll see on PCH that weekend. Then, as they pass, I yell at them to explain that I waved earlier and then kind of point in the direction of my house. This, after ditching the "flag them down, pull them over and personally greet them with a handshake" method I was using earlier. That just got too time consuming. [&:]
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