Share this with you guys instead of the guys in the 600RR forums. You guys and gals are a lot cooler.

Riding home on the RR on Friday like any other day and I see a GS500F come from the street to my right and stop (I had the right of way). He fumbles the stop a little and sits waiting for me to pass. I slow as I'm passing and give him the friendly wave that I do with almost every rider I come across. I'm pretty sure he saw since he was looking right at me. Anyway, I pass and the dude does nothing back. I immediately think "Oh well f u then. When the hell did GS riders become like Harley or touring riders? Wave damnit!!!" and ride off in a huff.

Alright, it wasn't the fact that he specifically didn't wave back. It was really just the camel that broke the straw's back, err... straw on camel... yeah, whatever. The point is, seems like it's everyone not waving back now instead of just the Harley and touring riders. I'll get waves up in ACH and such, but the commuter waves have stopped. Am I that unlikable? Anyone else noticing this trend or is it just me? If I find that GSFer again, I'm going to poop on his keyboard.

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I can tell you exactly what it is. When we are on the GS, i least i dont feel loved. . I think that the Real Supersport riders wont like me because i am on a 500 and the Harley dudes wont like me because i am on soem Jap ricer burner. Sometimes its the worst of both worls. END RANT.

Yeah i have been passed alot with no waves. I kinda had started to do like a little half wave just so if they didnt wave back it did make it look like i was waving to them anyway. People are a$$holes and c@nts in this world..... You just gotta Be the D!CK and F#%KEM

Quote from: roguegeek on August 05, 2006, 09:23:09 PM
He fumbles the stop a little and sits waiting for me to pass. I slow as I'm passing and give him the friendly wave that I do with almost every rider I come across.

So sound like he is new to the sport...... maybe he don't know that riders are suppose to wave to each other? And sometimes noob are just too afraid to let go of the handlebar.... 

Quote from: bbq on August 05, 2006, 09:57:22 PM
And sometimes noob are just too afraid to let go of the handlebar.... 

Thats is true too.

QuoteSometimes noob are just too afraid to let go of the handlebar.

Beat me to it by a couple mins...

He's probably a new rider, especially considering the stop.  It probably took all the skillz he had to keep from dropping it.  (Sound familiar?)  He'll be set straight soon enough.  

Quote from: dwn4whadever on August 05, 2006, 09:59:11 PM

Quote from: bbq on August 05, 2006, 09:57:22 PM
And sometimes noob are just too afraid to let go of the handlebar....  

Thats is true too.

thats probably a big part of it. remember, the gs500 rider is probably a new rider and is preoccupied with lots of other stuff. He probably wants to wave, or realized it too late. He's got to be thinking, "why is everyone waving? is it that obvious I'm a new rider?" or something like that.

My rule is wave at everyone. Some will wave back, some want to but cant, some dont. You lose nothing with the simple gesture of friendship. Be a sokesperson for squids everywhere...LOL...

That was one of my biggest thrills the first time i went riding. Was to do "The Wave". I think it means alot  and it kinda gets to me when people do wave.

The first wave I ever got was from a guy on a blue harley with a sleeping bag rolled up set on top of the headlight, he had a big bushy beard, big aviator glasses and a big "real rider" smile.

I returned it, but it was probably the most complicated thing ever done. Well at least at the time it was. I still was working on the whole turning thing. I mean like actually turning instead of just leaning and crossing my fingers.

Do I wave to motorcycle cops? Yes. Do they wave back? Always. I rode with them a few times. Safest ride ever.

Imagine someone tailgating you with a motorcycle cop leading the pack

Editted because I got that image in my head and had to share

I stopped waving to cops on motorcycles lon ago. they never wave back around the twisties here.

i waved to a motorcycle cop in phoenix, he waved while in a turn and promptly dropped the bike 

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on August 05, 2006, 11:58:52 PM
i waved to a motorcycle cop in phoenix, he waved while in a turn and promptly dropped the bike 

Seems like I got more waves back on my GS. I've found sport riders are, by far, the first ones to wave back or wave first. I'll nod to cops, but I wont take my hands off the bars. My understanding is they could ticket you for that.

Quote from: dwn4whadever on August 05, 2006, 09:50:57 PM
I can tell you exactly what it is. When we are on the GS, i least i dont feel loved.

I think I feel more love on the GS sometimes. The more mature riders notice the gestures more often and respond. I could really care less if the flipflop and shorts gixxer rider waves back at me when I'm on either the GS or RR.

Quote from: roguegeek on August 06, 2006, 12:38:40 AM

Quote from: dwn4whadever on August 05, 2006, 09:50:57 PM
I can tell you exactly what it is. When we are on the GS, i least i dont feel loved.

I think I feel more love on the GS sometimes. The more mature riders notice the gestures more often and respond. I could really care less if the flipflop and shorts gixxer rider waves back at me when I'm on either the GS or RR.

LOL

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Yeah Wyrd........That is so sad how people are so plastic (fake). That guy in all the black leather and doo rag probably evisions himself as Brando in that old classic movie "The Wild Ones".  He is a "pretender". And I guess all the people in the resturant are "stand-ins".  But he is no different than the idiot that is popping wheelies up and down a thoroughfare trying to get all about to notice him. You see.......he is the "star of the show" for that moment.
Let me tell you something. People are like that in Boats too! Some wave and some don't.
At the marinas or bars (we have boat bars here in South Louisiana), the ones with the big boats and big horsepower act the same way........strutting around like the "chicken of the walk". Laughable indeed. Just this week down on the coast I saw a young man with a Triton Rig with THREE--225 horse outboards mounted, on a triple axle trailer being pulled by a monster truck. He thought he was the dripping shits but he knew nothing more about boats, the Gulf, motors, or fishing or trapping than I do about brain surgery. He would have been in deep sh_it having a real conversation with an old coonass in a 14 foot bateau with a 25 horse motor that "really walks the walk" for a living.
You have to laugh at these people. You have to. They are hiliarious. Money and material things do not cure insecurity. These people are "eaten up" with insecurity.
Laugh. It's a moral imperative. Thank God that "you are not like that".

I wave at everyone...

unless they arent wearing a helmet  then I just laugh at them.