riding is riding

ok  you know  when you are riding  down the street and you see another bike you give a him a wave, well where i live if you ride a sportbike then all the cruisers dont give you the wave, espically harley riders. i think that riding is riding no matter what you are on, it pisses me off when im passing a guy on a cruiser and i dont get the wave back like they dont consider what we ride real bikes. im still gonna give them the wave but not first, im gonna wait and ill return the wave if i get one, just my thoughts.

yah i started doing that also cuz so many act so stuck up the way i see it now f*ck em if they wanna be dix about it ill wait for the wave and if receive i will return.

Yea same here, FU-K the tatto bikes over half of them dont where any gear anyways so i just kinda laugh and say dead man ridin...

I wave everytime to everyone, even our smaller cousins - the scooters.
 
Once you start thinking about who to wave to or not, then you are letting their stupidity affect your ride.
 
Sometimes the non-waving crowd appear so focussed on the road ahead it really destroys the name "cruiser". Surely "cruiser" is partly a bike type and partly an state of mind or attitude, and if you are going to ride one, why not adopt the personality too.
 
 

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ORIGINAL: cjp48

I wave everytime to everyone, even our smaller cousins - the scooters.

Once you start thinking about who to wave to or not, then you are letting their stupidity affect your ride.

Sometimes the non-waving crowd appear so focussed on the road ahead it really destroys the name "cruiser". Surely "cruiser" is partly a bike type and partly an state of mind or attitude, and if you are going to ride one, why not adopt the personality too.

 
 
good words man i use to wave at everyone i was just starting to get pissed at all  the assholes that dont wave back when i know they can see me adn just ride by with there nose in the air

you know I talk about this all the time with my boys I don't understand the wave in the first place.  I guess it like a respect thing or something but I don't know.  I don't wave to anyone cruiser or street bike.  why should I I don't know you so why the hell should wave to you.  that probaly makes me sound like a big ass. every once  in a blue moon I'll wave but deff. won't be the first too do it

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Yea same here, FU-K the tatto bikes over half of them dont where any gear anyways so i just kinda laugh and say dead man ridin...

i agree

HA WORD UP SOME CRUISERS GUYS ONLY WAVE SOME TIMES I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAVED AT ONE OF THE ASSHOLES AND DIDNT WAVE BACK THEN ANOTHER CRUISER CAME UP AND HE WAVED AT HIM  I WANTED TO OVER AND KICK THE F*&%#$ OFF HIS DAMN HARLEY

Just remember, sometimes other riders are focused on the situation on their side of the road to notice. I know I get pissed when people don't wave back, but most of the time it's because they are focused on things happening on their side of the road. Some can be dicks, no doubt, but I still wave at everyone even if they aren't paying attention to me or are dicks.

Don't know about the waving but here in Australia we give a nod to acknowledge other rider 9 of 10 do it back
maybe you guys should try it

Hi all,
Well first, Raptor, it's not really a wave as much as the left hand held out sidewase by the left knee.  I like to think of it as a "Low five" :-)
 
When riding in the cities I adopted the "only wave to sportriders" credo because so many of the cruisers were so rude.
 
Now I live in rural northern California and all riders wave to each other...like it should be as a nice happy two-wheeled communal gesture of respect.  It's really quite nice.

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ORIGINAL: mikeys06cbr600rr

HA WORD UP SOME CRUISERS GUYS ONLY WAVE SOME TIMES I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAVED AT ONE OF THE ASSHOLES AND DIDNT WAVE BACK THEN ANOTHER CRUISER CAME UP AND HE WAVED AT HIM  I WANTED TO OVER AND KICK THE F*&%#$ OFF HIS DAMN HARLEY

That's some ummmm, well.....how do I describe your post???

No, I'll just be nice.

I see at least a couple hundred bikes a weekend around here and a large percentage are cruisers. At least 90% wave. *shrugs* I guess we have great people here. hahaha, what a great place to live.

Lol....this thread (and its concurrently worsening posts)is rediculous. You are actually going to take the time to be pissed off because a rider didn't wave back?
Are your feelings really that fragile, that you would want to bother to be upset by something so trivial?
 
Might want to thicken your skin some.......I ride both a Harley AND and a Honda CBR. Its a completly different experiance, but we are all enthusiasts of the same lifestyle facing the same thrills and dangers. I wave to everyone. Its no skin off my back if they don't wave back.

You mean like the secret handshake LOL

i had this mental vision of you guys waving hands in the air cos i sure one poster said he does when he is in his cage LOL

I wave all the time. There are a couple that I miss (because I'm concentrating on traffic and whatnot). I figure that most of them are doing the same, trying to keep the cell-phone driving jackass off their tails instead of worrying about waving to me.

I wave, and if I don't get one back, no biggie. In the end, it's just a wave. It doesn't matter if Harleys/Cruisers don't wave back........I waved to them and that's all that matters.

I'm with mojo who cares if someone doesn't wave back

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ORIGINAL: Brennan

ok  you know  when you are riding  down the street and you see another bike you give a him a wave, well where i live if you ride a sportbike then all the cruisers dont give you the wave, espically harley riders. i think that riding is riding no matter what you are on, it pisses me off when im passing a guy on a cruiser and i dont get the wave back like they dont consider what we ride real bikes. im still gonna give them the wave but not first, im gonna wait and ill return the wave if i get one, just my thoughts.

When I was filling up at my usual gas station yesterday morning, this scroatbag biker wanna be dude, you know, the long haired smelly type, asked me when I was gonna get a "real" bike.  I just smiled and asked him what he rode, he repiled, "Oh, I'm between bikes right now".  I just laughed and told him to shut the f**k up.  Some ppl are just idiots. 

 

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Are your feelings really that fragile, that you would want to bother to be upset by something so trivial?

heres the thing, im not having a little kid temper tantrum about this, to me it is the principal, i brought this up because it happens, i know alot of people who ride harleys and other cruisers, and they say they wont wave to sprotbikes because they consider them girly bikes and what not, pretty much not real bikes. and i think that is bullsh*t because to me and all my buddies that ride sportbikes and cruisers riding is riding it doesnot matter what you ride or how you  ride, and like you said mojo,

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but we are all enthusiasts of the same lifestyle facing the same thrills and dangers

so what makes a harley rider more special than somone who rides a sportbike. to me it would be nothing, you ride for the thrill and love of riding no matter what it is, its the bias and seperation that is between sportbikes and cruisers that pisses me off. ya they may be to different lifestyles but at the same time they are the same

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ORIGINAL: Blue Fox

I wave all the time. There are a couple that I miss (because I'm concentrating on traffic and whatnot). I figure that most of them are doing the same, trying to keep the cell-phone driving jackass off their tails instead of worrying about waving to me.

I wave, and if I don't get one back, no biggie. In the end, it's just a wave. It doesn't matter if Harleys/Cruisers don't wave back........I waved to them and that's all that matters.

 
+1 Blue

+2 to what he just said!

i was reading all these posts and wondering what you guys are doing wrong, because i went on a 4-hour ride today, and EVERY bike we passed, alongside or opposite, waved.  even high-5's on the other side of the retaining wall, and long distance waves to the people on the opposite access road or sitting at the intersection.  and then i remembered - i was riding behind my dad, who rides a big yamaha road star silverado with all the saddle bags and sissy bars and lots of lights and the leather vest with the vietnam vet NRA instructor Patriot Guard patches all over it.  maybe the other riders were waving at him.  but then again, when i ride by myself, i get big waves from sport bikes, cruisers, cars, cops ...maybe i just don't look threatening.  when i was sitting in the left turn lane at an intersection in north dallas, a guy on a little harley pulled up next to me thru the traffic and was like "thats a nice RR man!!" and i felt stupid, because i wanted to compliment his bike, and didn't know jack about it.  but i'll learn - a lot of the regulars at my work (with whom i talk bikes on a regular basis) ride harleys and other cruisers.  i'm not sure where i'm going with this, but maybe dallas is just different from wherever yall are.  but keep waving anyway - maybe itll catch on.  and smile through your helmet - couldn't hurt!

around where i live i can be sitting in a left hand turn lane waiting on the light and most of the time when a cruiser passes you can give em a wave and they will just look at you like whaterver and keep going, but i guess that is just how it is in northern va 

People in Montana wave like 98% of the time. The only ones that don't are a few cruisers and then the f$%!kheads on sport bikes that ride around with no helmet and shorts and a t-shirt... They're too COOL to wave.

Are there really people dumb enough to ride like that?  I live in Louisiana (with a helmet law) but I can't imagine ever riding without my lid......

Ya that's one of my pet peeves too.  A bikes a bike I really like them all and respect everyone whos riding for at least taking it out and having a good time.  How someone doesn't have the common courtesy to acknowledge that you both have something in common and are out doing one of the most enjoyable things possible is beyond me.  One thing I noticed is that probably a little less than half of the riders on cruisers here wave when they're alone...but I have yet to get a wave from anyone on a cruiser riding in a group of them.  It's like theyll be too embarrased to wave at a pathetic sportbike in front of their friends. 
 
My uncle (harley rider) actually had the nerve to ask me when I was gonna get a real bike, and I replied 'what do you want me to sell my bike AND my car in order to put just a down payment on an overpriced oil leaking piece of shit?' and he never said another word about it. (From what I understand all the older harleys had a problem with oil leaks dont know if the newer ones do or not) 
 
btw I really don't have any problems with harleys or any other bike for that matter I just didn't like the disrespectful comment he made about my baby.