Yea ive noticed that too Cal. Im pretty sure it's because theres alot greater respect if you love your motorcycle so much you will ride through the winter!

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I've always gotten either a reply wave or an initiated wave from a bike occifer.

Hairley's  always wave back or start the wave (except in Connecticut...  they NEVER wave)

Ann said "hairleys" lmao! Did you mean to do that?


Scooter riders never wave back. A lot of them in dees har parts are DUI violators and can't drive a car. Or they are 60 year old gas savers, either way they don't wave back.

The hairley guys wave most of the time, if they look hardcore they almost always wave.
The helmetless kids on liter bikes just look at ya like they're ready to fight.
I flip off more cars than I wave to.

Yeah.  I meant to type "hairley"

Quote from: pandy on December 16, 2006, 11:06:36 PM
I guess those without a pair of b00bies get the bah humbug grumpiness right back.

Fixed! 

bike officers always return the wave to me.  Most of the time people on scooters around here are excited to see a motorcycle and wave uncontrolably, this makes me laugh a little.  I always wave back.  It might be that most people on scooters around here are riding them cause they don't have a drivers license or don't have one anymore.

I sometimes even wave to kids on bicycles.  Usually anything with two wheels gets a wave.

I have kids in cars wave at me, I always wave back.... Kids are so cute, thank God I don't have any!

Quote from: rob1bike on December 17, 2006, 06:58:38 PM
I have kids in cars wave at me, I always wave back.... Kids are so cute, thank God I don't have any!

I always like that.  And I agree, other people's kids are great as long as they're not bothering me. 

Quote from: WildBlue on December 17, 2006, 01:25:57 PM

Quote from: pandy on December 16, 2006, 11:06:36 PM
I guess those without a pair of b00bies get the bah humbug grumpiness right back.

Fixed! 

two wheels and a helmet warrants a wave. 

Yeah, if they are not driving within an enclosed cage, and arent peddling I wave.  It just makes the scooter guys WANT to join in on the big bike action. 

Not waving makes them bitter and NOT want to belong.

My 2 cents anyway.

Back in the summer there was a group of 3 tough looking guys on choppers up ahead of me in traffic. An older guy on a scooter merged right in the middle of the group and rode with them a pretty good ways. The scooter guy acted like he was part of the gang and even started a conversation with them.

Like most people on here I don't disrespect anyone whether they're on a Harley, scooter, bicycle, or feet. I'm not the type to initiate a wave but I will wave back to anyone. It's the jackasses that have no respect for other people that really annoys me. It seems to have gotten progressively worse over the years so there's probably nothing that can be done about it short of moving to a deserted island.

I have waved at numerous scooters on accident cause I thought they were motos. None of them waved back. They just look straight ahead and seem a little embarrassed if anything.

I wave to scooters because around here there aren't many too wheeled, engine powered machines around. I often reserve the wave when I'm around packs of guys riding supersports because I know they won't return though.

got the wave from a scooter today.
i wave to scooters all the time, but yea they usually dont wave back.

youd think they would want to be cool, like us guys on real bikes

There is this lady who has this pink scooter, pink jacket (don't think its armored, or even leather for that matter), and a pink 3/4 helmet that rode around all the time.  She never waved, even if I was next to her at a light and gave her a head nod.  She looked like a manicen, sitting perfectly straight and never moving.

Ok, first, is this even a question?

Yes you wave to them.

The wave has NOTHING to do with power, speed, status or any of that. It has to do with all the pains, the sorrow, the fear and most importantly THE JOY of riding.



But remember next time you think that H.P. entitles you to a higher status on that same scale you are using you are not even a gnat to a Busa.

I guess I'm a bad person. When a scooter drives by in the opposite direction I think "ha!, get a real bike you! You're not getting a wave from me."

I guess I'm a regular @$$hole 

Before I started thinking like this I used to wave to scooters, they never waved back so F them