voodoochyl
6/25/2008 8:00:39 PM
...Playful God, I did say there are exceptions, hahaha! We had a guy on a 600 cc scooter keep up with our group. I started a thread several months ago about allowing him into our silly bike club.
PlayfulGod
6/25/2008 8:02:40 PM
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ORIGINAL: ta8218
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ORIGINAL: PlayfulGod
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ORIGINAL: voodoochyl
Thanks Mordeth (or however you spell his name), for letting me know I am waving wrong. I like to drop the duece (not poop my pants...there are two exclusive defenitions...I think). When I ride on the freeway, I will make sure to thrust my open palmed hand straight in the air while doing eighty, because there is no way it will compromise the aerodynamic slipstream that I enjoy everyday on my motorcycle (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
The only problem I have with waving at scoots is, I see them as a viable means of transportation, but they don''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t invest as much as we do...or a cruiser, for that matter. Yes, you can ride a unicycle, and get run over by Claire who is bringing orange wedges to the soccer team, but there is absolutely less risk involved. A person on a scooter is going to ride in traffic at 35 mph (do your own conversion for metric), not ride in the twisties, or have an epic adventure for hundreds of miles, or spend as much money as us, or consider it a "lifestyle", or even drop the cabbage for good protective gear (I see more flip flops, t-shirts, and shorts on scooter riders that squids). Of course, there are always exceptions. Reading my own post, maybe I have less respect for those who ride with less to lose. I could be dead wrong...as we can all be dead when we ride. I don''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t think I am a dick, but if I have a choice, I would not wave to a person on a scooter before I would wave to any other rider.
I beg to differ
650cc''''''''''''''''s will do 80mph without breathing hard and the rider of it said it would do 120. And I took that pic on top of 129 in Ga on whats known as the Loop lol. Do they sound so wimpy now?? 
oh BTW the rider had full leathers on too. 
Oh come on, thats a scoot on roids.
Was brand new on its first major outing. Think he said it had like 1100 miles on it lol. He traded like 3 or 4 bikes he had sitting around in on/for it. lol
ta8218
6/25/2008 8:08:27 PM
FFCBRf4i
6/25/2008 8:11:38 PM
I''ll wave to anybody. I don''t really care. I just try to be nice to everybody. Kind of mean to call them scooter-tards lol.
jetjestor
6/25/2008 8:20:46 PM
Oh for the guy who say they need to say, they to save and get a real bike. I''m sure the HD riders are saying the samething. A harley can cost three times a sport bike. So you do the math. We''re all two wheels, so try to live together. If you want to sub group keep to yourself. That just like being racists.
jetjestor
6/25/2008 8:27:05 PM
Love the trick scooter video....
jp_greenville13
6/25/2008 9:25:38 PM
so i''m kind of curious what the harley guys think of the scoots. lol
ta8218
6/25/2008 9:58:00 PM
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ORIGINAL: jetjestor
Oh for the guy who say they need to say, they to save and get a real bike. I''''m sure the HD riders are saying the samething. A harley can cost three times a sport bike. So you do the math. We''''re all two wheels, so try to live together. If you want to sub group keep to yourself. That just like being racists.
True. However, our sport bikes are a hell of a lot faster than the harleys, so there is an advantage. The scoots got nothin. Well, maybe gas mileage, but we''ve already got that.
Shocktroop
6/25/2008 10:02:56 PM
OK, heres my take. I ride a scooter.(yamaha vino)...allot. I love the scoot for those simple run to the store for something really quick trips. Like an 18pk of beer, loaf of bread, milk, quick trip to home depot, return a movie so on. No, it''s not as fast, and easier to ride, so I just hop on with whatever I am wearing and go, so usually my X-11 or something as I don''t have dedicated scooter helmet. Its good cause there is little warm-up time, takes 2 seconds to back out of the garage and I''m gone, plus I can haul allot of stuff on it without having to grab my back-pack. My daily driver is either my 1k RR, or the xt225 or the DL650, whatever I feel like riding that day. I put 250 miles on my truck last year, thats it. The rest was on two wheels. But about the wave, I get waved at by everything but sportbikes while on the scoot. I see these same guys at the store or gas station on their ratted out, dropped a million times sporbike, part of the I''m so cool only ride when it''s sunny crowd. The scoot and the laughs I get don''t bother me, I know whats up and don''t care what some pimply knucklehead thinks. I got 4 rides to have fun on and I do so on each.
TK954RR
6/25/2008 10:09:37 PM
camaro_forums
6/25/2008 11:45:50 PM
I waved at a guy on a scooter today, and he looked like he was gonna fall off he was so surprised haha. To be quite honest, I didn''t notice it was a scooter till too late, but no matter I wave to everyone
Sallen_71
6/26/2008 12:34:34 AM
I dont generally wave at people I know and talk to on a regular basis or I dont like. Most of the time is the same people over and over again and it gets odd (except this one really cool indian lookin guy on a HD, always waves and it makes me smile to wave back).
New commers get the wave... No matter what. If they dont return in they are the ones that are @$$es, not me. Most of the time everyone is real cool bout it, I noticed its more the GSX-R''s that dont wave... which to me means they probably are riding to much bike for them to handle.
thegreenbandit
6/26/2008 3:03:22 AM
My first ride was worse then a scooter.. it was a mopead. But because i could ride it without a liecance i was 10x happier then every one at school who was walking.
I never got waved at, I never expected too. lol Instead id get honked at by everything wanting too pass.
I noticed that here, the HD guys seem to wave at each other cause they know each other, they meet up in the coffee shop, they talk to each other in the parking lots etc same with sportbike guys. Otherwise riders seem to allmost completly ignore each other where I live.
Im pretty green to riding but I really don''t get this whole you gotta wave thing? Im not a good rider yet, but I don''t see how it''s safe to be constantly adverting your attention to off the traffic, and letting go of the handlebars. Just for someone you''ll probley never see again, or care about.
Brandon77
6/26/2008 6:45:45 AM
No I don''t wave to scooters, they are not bikes
reaper2022
6/26/2008 2:12:57 PM
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ORIGINAL: thegreenbandit
Im pretty green to riding but I really don''''t get this whole you gotta wave thing? Im not a good rider yet, but I don''''t see how it''''s safe to be constantly adverting your attention to off the traffic, and letting go of the handlebars. Just for someone you''''ll probley never see again, or care about.
It''s not a safety thing, it''s a brotherhood thing. It''s a way of showing another rider that you acknowledge the fact that he''s on two wheels, and as such, you respect him.
oreo
6/26/2008 3:31:59 PM
I wave at everything even when I''m in my cage.
