who do you wave at?

[frankieG]

we have had some discussions here before on waving at HD and them not waving back.  i began waving at everyone last week including scooters.  so what about you guys?  i figure if it has 2 wheels and a engine it is eligible for a hospitality wave.

[simon79]

-People I wave to, and usually get response from:
--custom riders, including HD's (yes, sir)
--naked bike riders
--Jap supersport riders

-People I wave to, but usually get no response whatsoever (so I'm beginning not to wave at):
--BMW riders
--Expensive (especially Italian) supersport riders

-People I do not wave at because I'd get no wave back for sure:
--Enduro riders (most of them consider themselves as a separate class, not all of them though)
--Scooter riders ("...hey, why did that dude wave at me? What's that??")

BTW, another question for the left-hand-traffic (UK, AUS, NZ...) guys:
do you wave one another on the road, too?
do you use your left hand like us or let the throttle go to wave at other riders?

[scottpA_GS]

I wave only if they have a helmet on 

No helmet no wave 

[Roadstergal]

i figure if it has 2 wheels and a engine it is eligible for a hospitality wave.

No love for the folks sweatin' it out without an engine?  

[frankieG]

i figure if it has 2 wheels and a engine it is eligible for a hospitality wave.

No love for the folks sweatin' it out without an engine?  

no, i think i am generous enough

[spc]

I'd wave at someone bustin ass at 20+mph on a road bike before I'd wave at a scooter........way before.

[Chokstick]

Cylces don't get waves.  Scooter generally don't either, cause by the time I figure out its a scooter and not one of the e-bikes...its too late.  Otherwise, everyone gets a wave.

[Roslyn]

BTW, another question for the left-hand-traffic (UK, AUS, NZ...) guys:
do you wave one another on the road, too?
do you use your left hand like us or let the throttle go to wave at other riders?

I'm in Sydney and we don't wave, we nod. It has to be bit of a sideways nod in their direction or else they can't see it. I don't generally nod at scooters but these days a lot of them look like regular bikes from the front so it's hard to tell. I don't nod at HD riders because they never do, and as for BMW riders not waving, my husband has a BMW and he always nods to other riders. 

[DoD#i]

I wave at all motorcycles, and most anything that looks enough like a motorcycle gets a wave. Many HD folk wave back, some don't, I don't worry about the ones that don't, or prejudge the ones coming at me by what the last one did. Had I been on my bike I would probably not have waved at the squidmoron doing a wheelie in oncoming traffic that seemed odds-on for causing a bump and some nasty scratches to the paint as we ran him over with our car, but managed to stay on his own side of the road after all. That time. He'll be looking at a whole different set of wheels if he survives the crash he's got coming.

[cstilt]

I wave at just about anything on 2 wheels. Motorcycles, scooters, bicycles if i'm in a good mood. Heck, i even wave a mopeds if the mood strikes me.  I just can't make my mind up about trikes though...

[PuddleJumper]

I wave at anything on two wheels, country folk, and police officers. 

BeSafe

[theUBS]

I gave an exuberant wave to what appears to be a developmentally challenged man on a moped not that long ago.  He was wearing an open-faced helmet and goggles. Had seen him not long before that at a bank pedalling like a madman (teeth gritted and all) trying to get up a slight grade and into a parking space before it stalled. He's only about 5' tall.  I think he does some grunt work at a local scrapyard.

...anyway, long story short, I don't discriminate.  

[trumpetguy]

Here in Oklahoma, where the helmet-clad are a minority, I wave at EVERY motorcycle.  I give the standard wave around here -- a left hand peace sign out and down about hip level.  What's ironic is that many helmetless riders don't wave back. 

I guess those of us who protect ourselves (and by extension, our families) aren't manly enough to be waved at by the REAL men of motorcycling.  Odd.

[yamahonkawazuki]

i wave at everyting bicycles scooters, liberals    , and whatever has 2 wheels, and an engine . be it gasoline or chevrolegs

[CanukGS500]

Back when I was riding in the early to mid 90's, I waved a lot at first, but it seemed where I was living riders were very "cliqueish" and an early 80's Honda 125cc didnt get many waves back.

One day I was on my way home from work on that 125 in a cold rain wearing my improvised rain gear (I think it was around 8-9C outside and Fall).  I didn't have a lot of money at the time and so I did a lot of improvisation and homebrew engineering to get SOMETHING that kinda-sorta worked for rain.  Anyway, that day an oncoming rider decked out in high end rain gear on a large touring bike spotted me.   He gave me an enthusiastic thumbs up well in advance, almost as if he was trying to say "nice!  You didnt let the weather stop you from riding!  awesome!".  I waved back and returned the thumbs up.

Since that day if it was inclement weather out I always waved at motorcyclists nomatter what they rode.

[nascarkeith]

I tend to wave at any other biker I see.  Most sportbike guys wave back.  The cruisers are about half and half.

[annguyen1981]

I don't wave to scooters...  but sometimes, I don't realize that it's a scooter until my hand is halfway out...  then I've gotta try and do something "cool" with my hand.

Usually, scooter 'riders' don't even realize WHAT the wave is for...  so therefore, they get NOTHING.

[trumpetguy]

i wave at everyting bicycles scooters, liberals    ,

Yama, you're a funny guy.    

[bettingpython]

Here in Oklahoma, where the helmet-clad are a minority, I wave at EVERY motorcycle.  I give the standard wave around here -- a left hand peace sign out and down about hip level.  What's ironic is that many helmetless riders don't wave back. 

I guess those of us who protect ourselves (and by extension, our families) aren't manly enough to be waved at by the REAL men of motorcycling.  Odd.

The helmetless are either too new to take their hands off the bars or young and think their invincible so their shaZam! don't stink. Most of the helmetless cruiser guys who ride as a lifestyle will wave the doctors and lawyers who just ride to brag about being cool usually snob sport bike riders.

Cycles sorry but I know they have as much legal right to the road as cagers but we have em around here that make an obnoxius point of it to the point of being discourteous, I gave up any thoughts of doing any road work training around here because the cyclists have pissed the caging population off to the point where even if your nice and move over for cages to pass they still scare the piss outta you. Around here I give cyclist the big FU wave when they execise their right to the road to the point of slowing traffic deliberately.

[yamahonkawazuki]

i wave at everyting bicycles scooters, liberals    ,

Yama, you're a funny guy.    

i try sometimes