Funny Story

So, today I was driving my truck (I'm a delivery driver on the weekends). I was driving behind a Harley. The rider and his wife would have been considered squids on any other bike: Shorts, t-shirts, novelty helmets, etc. So anyway, there are alot of other bikes out on weekends, and all of them were throwing the biker wave at these two, but they were too stuck up to return it. I was driving behind with the window down, so I figured I would return all of these biker waves. I got lots of big smiles from the other bikers.

 

Snobs. Grr... they give us all a bad name. Bless you for being thoughtful Jason, you'll get extra padding in your chair when you get called back to your maker.

 

Sounds like "clueless clowns" rather than snobs to me, but then I try to see the good side of everyone...

 

Well, I guess they MIGHT have been clueless, but seriously, probably 15 bikes went past going the other way, and damn near every one of them took their hand fully off of the bars, and waved it in their direction.

On a more positive (kinda) note, I saw another guy on a Harley swerve to avoid an accident. Some chick on a cellphone driving a Dodge Neon or something started to make that dreaded left turn in front of him, and he saw it immediately and swerved to the right and around her, throwin up a middle finger once he had it straightened up again. Cagers can be so oblivious!

 

Not all hog riders are snobs.

A few years ago we were staying with friends near Tampa. One Sunday they had a club meeting to attend and my wife and I were invited to go along, found later there was an ulterior motive.

We pulled into a place on the road from Brandon to Sarasota for lunch and the car park was full of Harleys, never seen so much chrome in my life. I wandered over and asked if I could take a few pictures of the bike’s and said I rode a virago back in England. I was dragged here there and everywhere by these people, look at this do, have that in England. They were very friendly and keen to ask questions and show their bike’s of, really nice people. The only fly in the ointment was my accent, which is Cockney and most of what I said I had to repeat several time’s.

The born again bikers on hogs in the UK are pretty snooty though and the crutch rocket Kamikaze pilots are even worse.

Faighaigh

 

Just like any other group of people, you've got your good ones and your bad ones. I've met plenty of both. :lol:

 

Ya, I wasn't saying they were. Most of the riders who waved at this couple were on Harleys. Around here (Seattle) I haven't noticed much of a difference in attitude between Harley riders and sportbike riders. Of course, I haven't talked to all that many of either.

 

I was not inferring that Hog riders were the snots, just the callous riders among us who behave poorly. I'm sorry if my post did not impart this distinction.

 

To the original story - I went for my first real ride in about 2 years last Sunday after I finally got the bugs out of Ol' Bertha. Amazingly, I didn't see many bikes for a Sunday, but there were a few. Throwing the wave was just as automatic a response as grabbing the clutch and kicking the shifter - it had been a while, but it was just like yesterday. Most folks waved back, one or two Harley drivers didn't - par for the course.

After I got back from my ride and convinced my 7-month-pregnant wife, NO, I would NOT take her for a ride, we headed off in the cage to the store. I was in the passenger seat, still flyin' high from fixing the bike AND getting to ride it. A couple approached us on a Goldwing in the oncoming lane, and from the copilot seat of the SUV, I instinctively threw the wave. The guy had the most CONFUSED look on his face. I'm sure he figured it out after he'd passed, but for a moment, he figured (rightly) I was a complete nutter. Needless to say, my wife was pretty amused.

As for the pair in Jason's post, it could very well be he was a fresh squid who was so focused on not dumping his ride that he didn't even see the others. Who knows.

 

I find the only way to get a response from the harley rider is to use the single finger wave. :twisted:

That sure gets their attention. :wink:

 

i just don't wave at all! :roll:

it's pretty amusing to see ur friends waving,

and u just stare back!

i wave only when im standing!