The motorcycle rider's wave

Crotch rockets are sport bikes. Often operated by under 30 year old young males with an apparent death wish. We refer to persons operating one of these bikes unsafely, i.e. weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds, riding for extended distances on one wheel, lane splitting at high speeds, or just operating their crotch rockets in an unsafe manner as squids or squidders.

When one of these crotch rockets passes you riding on the rear wheel in excess of 100 mph thereby interrupting your pastoral ride in the country one might utter under ones breath: Damn Squidders! Then, because he scared the crap out of you, you pull over to the side of the road, clean out your shorts, get your heart rate under control, and then signal and carefully ease back onto the road.

 

i always wave at scooters, someday they may grow up to get a real bike
harleys rarely wave and if there's more than one they never wave, testosterone i guess
sport bikes seem most likely to wave, i think they just look for ways to relax their wrists
no helmet is no wave no matter what he's on

 

funny about the more than one. i passed about 5 the other day riding together. i waved and got nothing from the first 4 but the guy in the back snuck in a quick one at the last second, lol

 

I have never had a crotch rocket rider wave, even after I waved first. Even though I kinda sorta by way of joint property own one. Here we call them 'organ donors'

Here in East Tennessee everyone owns a motorcycle and it's our favorite past time to get out. Everyone is super friendly especially if you're on two wheels. That is except the crotch rocket crowd.

 

i kind of think of the seca as one of the grandfathers of the modern day crotch rocket. it really shows if you have the tank propped up with a block of wood.

i wave at everyone and usually get a wave back. doesn't hurt my feelings if they don't - i figure a lot of riders don't know about the wave. especially the harley riders that don't put many miles on and aren't comfortable enough on their machines to take a hand off the bar. i think HD would do well to make a 500cc entry level bike. the 883 sportster, in my opinion, is too much bike to learn how to ride on. i don't mean to pick on harley riders - for the most part, the one's i've met are cool.

i think the one's that are jerks or are "if it ain't a harley, it's junk" are just in some sort of denial and can't admit to themselves they could have gotten just as good of a machine for 10% of what they paid for theirs. i don't have the heart to tell any of them that a 1981 XJ750 can turn out more horsepower than a 2009 1200cc sportster.

my brother-in-law told me when he got a jeep, he found out that jeeps wave to each other - that, i think is kind of silly, but whatever.

 

I've always waved at everyone, I've found some Harley riders wave, other's don't. Scooters I've found don't usually wave, I think this may be due to that they don't know.
Skeeter, that is a good point, I've always thought this and have been told by other people that the Seca is (in some circles) known as the fore runner to the modern crotch rocket and the first bike with the forward thinking styling pointing toward the crotch rockets.

 

I like the Mordeth wave I'll have to try that sometime.

 

They do, It's called a Buell Blast. Which I am seriously looking into buying. I rode one for my safety course, it's a very well balanced bike, and it's cute!
If I don't get one of those I'll probably ride the Daytona for a bit since my boyfriend is getting a Ducati this spring.

Of the two Harley riders I personally know, one is a total @$$ not because he rides a Harley, just because, well he is.. in everything he does on a daily basis. The other is the coolest cat you'll ever meet.

 

I don't think the 2010 Blast will be a big seller...

http://www.buell.com/en_us/bikes/blast/


:lol:

 

hahahahahaha My boyfriend would buy that. Just to say "Here's your bike dear"