Do you wave?

I put my left arm straight down at a 45 degree angle and hold out 2 fingers ( feels natural) Every time. unless im cornering or down shifting, then its the nod.
seems to me some (by some i mean 97% of them) Harley riders are to cool for my XJ. maybe its just the person ( i mean if i spent $25,000 on a bike id be pissed too ) What are yall guys' thoughts/ actions on the "wave"

 

Great thread topic! I started one just like it about a year ago.
Here's the link:
http://xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=42300.html

 

I do the exact same thing as you with the two fingers and the nod. I actually get some Harley love but only because I work on most of them HAHA! They are money baskets in my opinion. I live my "Jap Bikes" as they call them.

 

Almost everybody waves back, including the cops and the Harley riders. One exception is a guy I see in a cafe quite often, he always says hi when we meet there, but he ignores me on the road when I'm on my XJ-1100. I don't think he recognizes me on the bike with my helmet on. He waves when I'm on my Vulcan 1500, probably thinks it's a Harley.

 

Why is it always the Hardly riders as I call them. But they're sure happy to see you when you pull over to help them out!

 

I use to wave to everyone on two wheels except small scooters and mobs.

 

The only times I don't wave are like motor-guitars said: not when it's too risky to ride with one hand. But there's a Quaker Steak tight by my office, and on Wednesday nights, I honestly just get sick of holding my hand out non-stop, so I'll wait for the other biker to initiate. The ones I notice not initiating or returning are usually the crotch rockets. Especially the guys with flipflops/no jacket/no helmet on.

 

I find our XJs get more Harley waves than a lot of bikes because we sit up straight and don't look like crotch rockets. They have a wave on their mind before they realize we aren't a Harley they wave and then it's too late. ha ha
I also notice it can be location specific. I live in Nashville where bikers wave a lot and when riding through a small near by town of Smyrna you get very few waves; figure that.

Ride safe...

 

i try to wave at everyone riding a bike, but yea i notice alot of harley guys dont wave or the ones like baldwonder said in the flip flops..lol. some people just have that im to good for you attitude but i wave anyways most of the time. by the way i just put my arm down and do the 2 finger deal too

 

No, i don't know you from Adam. i'am not your friend on facebook, don't follow your tweets, don't care that you have a motorbike, and won't buy you a beer.
i might stop if your broke down but i'am not waving to every nitwit that goes by

 

I usually do unless it's dangerous. I almost always give a couple fingers to the cop on the corner.....simply cuz I don't ride stupid and I want him to know there are a few safe riders still out here.....

As far as other bikes, I wave as a courtesy, figuring ate set the riders has b@ll$ enough to straddle a 400 lb chunk of metal and go hurtling down the road balanced on top... I can at least a knowledge that.

Yeah, the crotchets often don't save back, but some give two fingers from the handlebars, and the Harleys almost never do---- so two fingers be one one.

 

Isn't auto carrot competing ship? :lol:

 

I always wave - my dad taught me when I was a kid, and its just a cultural thing I like. 1000s of miles on the back of his tourer, I did the waving to 100s if not 1000s of other riders.

I get waves here in CO from all bikes, EXCEPT what I call the "scientist" riders: dudes on bmw or other tech bikes with the most extreme safety gear money can buy.

I once met a guy that was that type of rider and he was a physics professor - very scientific about riding, borderline ausbergers, and probably thought more about both hands on the grips for safety than about acknowledging a fellow rider, hence the "scientist" rider.

Don't get me wrong, they're probably great guys, and I still always give them a wave.

 

coloradodan. yea i know exactly the people you are talking about. they are always on some type of touring/duelsport import bike or something like that. yea they never seem to wave.

 

I always give at least a taciturn acknowledgement, drop my left hand off the bar in a half wave/salute; if it's a vintage bike of any sort I generally give a hearty "thumbs up."

The guys on the giant land-yacht Harleys with all the bells and whistles generally ignore me. But I'm seeing this increasingly becoming a "helmet" thing; they seem to not acknowledge anyone wearing a helmet even if it's somebody on another monster Harley. (Our helmet law was recently repealed.)

The hipsters on the ADV bikes are just as self-absorbed as the hipsters on scooters and generally oblivious to everything around them; so I don't expect much.

 

For the last 40 years I've always waved, nodded or flashed to anything approaching on two wheels except for scooters. The vast majority of the time I get a wave in return. It's the law as far as I'm concerned.

 

Wow...... How'd I miss all that?!?! I'll try again:

...Yeah, the crotchers often don't wave back, but some do give two fingers from the handlebars, and the Harleys almost never wave---- so my two-finger wave becomes a one-finger wave.

That makes a little more sense. Lol

 

Hell I even wave at scooters, I figure they're on two, and at least trying to feel the air through the hair. They may be future riders, who knows?

 

I do the same thing, except with the cops in my town....they usually wave to me first because I know most of them. One of the advantages of being a smart rider... and the VP of the local youth football.

As for the other riders, I always wave, hand low, all fingers extended. I can probably count on one hand the number of riders that haven't waved back in the past year.

 

I wave to most people hand out all finger out. Not usually to harley riders after a couple attempts I kinda gave up. Whatever... I even have a quick chat with some people at red lights. But 2 or 3 times in the last month have a couple harley guys sitting at the light looking at me reving there engines so I blow by them on my 550. (Not saying that I have the fasted bike but) Lol. Again whatever.