Yeah, what about waving...

[kodio]

Popeye, that is a thing of beauty.

I'm nominating you VTF Poet Laureate.

[steveusmc]

Originally Posted by GunrunnerII

waving is for posers

Since you are 1 day older than me I won't thrash you for that remark. Posers? Define a poser please. I think many riders are called posers who don't even realize they are posers.

I ALWAYS wave as long as I'm not shifting or on rough roads. I nod when I'm sitting at the stoplights and I always try to acknowledge anyone who takes the time to wave to me. COURTESY is the lubricant of life as the saying goes. I think people who DON'T wave are the biggest posers.

[P 0 P E Y E]

Thanks Kodio

I think the poser remark was actually a one line, wonder of a joke that was surgically dropped like a smart bomb on an hardened bunker.

The words poser and biker should be framed in tassels and mounted on the wall in the classics section.

[VonRaknid]

Thats the problem with the Whole World today pretty much UN-FRIENDLY, these are the types of things that cause Sterotyping, its pretty much a common courtisy unless you where beatin when you where a child and left the tri-cycle behind
Dads car There really is no such thing as a "Poser" its either Lead or Follow simply put

[dynageno]

Originally Posted by phat35th

If I get a wave I give a wave

I don't usually wave-I wave back!

[11963]

how many of ya wave at trucks like yours goin down the road.ride hard cb
if ya wanna be friendly stop an help a broke bike

[godzilla22]

I don't wave ever...It's IMHO the dumbest thing that the yuppies/Rubs brought to motorcycling.

[claydbal]

Originally Posted by godzilla22

I don't wave ever...It's IMHO the dumbest thing that the yuppies/Rubs brought to motorcycling.

you don't remember when you could ride for days and not see another bike. when you did see one, you would wave at him and he would wave back. no yuppies or rubs yet----------------now the world is full of em. and they dont wave, they hold their hand down and out like a modified left turn signal.this type of "wave" must have meaning, as most use it today. i personally just give the peace sign to fellow riders.



which side goes up?????????????????????????????????????????

[Off the Chain]

I agree claydbal... waving is far from new. When I was a young long-haired hippie, riding in the early seventies, waving was common among riders. Sometime in the 80's, I cut my hair and became a yuppie/redneck rider. Waving was still normal. Now it's 2006, been riding for years, and continue to wave, and guess I'm now a RUB/poser. Funny how that works... been riding for 36 years, but considered by some to be a poser because I wave. LMAO at the "real" non-waving "bikers". Guess they're too young to know that this waving thing was invented a long time before they became too bad a$$ to wave. Or could it be, they don't wave because they're too scared to take their hand off the bars...

[Deejay]

Originally Posted by Off the Chain

Or could it be, they don't wave because they're too scared to take their hand off the bars...

I can respect that.... a little fear keeps you safe.
I once waved at another rider. The kid waved back and almost ate the back end of a truck.
Whenever I don't get a wave back, I just figure the other rider's about ready to grab the clutch.

I no longer assume it's a personality flaw.

[fourhour]

Originally Posted by deejay-2k

Whenever I don't get a wave back, I just figure the other rider's about ready to grab the clutch.

I no longer assume it's a personality flaw.

That's it! It's not a personality flaw! Thank you, very much. I feel so much better now!

Please pass this along to all fellow bikers so they can better understand why I choose to NOT wave!

[godzilla22]

I've been out here for 37 years and I still think waving is a little gay. I did have this ex old lady that got a brand new yuppie boyfriend and one day a while back they passed me. I did the friendly thing...I raised my hand up and waved at them. Half an hour later I ran into them at a bar and this peckerhead comes over and tells me that I waved wrong "?%#@$%&?" What? I asked. He tells me that I should drop my left hand down near my knee and sort of half assed wave 'cause "That's the Harley rider wave" I told him he was a pathetic f_ckin' idiot and to get out of my face. I don't wave at anyone unless it someone I know 'cause most people are pathetic f_ckin' idiots that are not worth the effort!

[ATTILA]

Originally Posted by godzilla22

I've been out here for 37 years and I still think waving is a little gay. I did have this ex old lady that got a brand new yuppie boyfriend and one day a while back they passed me. I did the friendly thing...I raised my hand up and waved at them. Half an hour later I ran into them at a bar and this peckerhead comes over and tells me that I waved wrong "?%#@$%&?" What? I asked. He tells me that I should drop my left hand down near my knee and sort of half assed wave 'cause "That's the Harley rider wave" I told him he was a pathetic f_ckin' idiot and to get out of my face. I don't wave at anyone unless it someone I know 'cause most people are pathetic f_ckin' idiots that are not worth the effort!

man who pissed in your oatmeal

[godzilla22]

No one, It's simply the way I feel about it.

[David III]

Originally Posted by P 0 P E Y E

The words poser and biker should be framed in tassels and mounted on the wall in the classics section.

I second that. Can I be a poser and a biker at the same time? I'd have more tassels that way.

I wave at bikes. Did it in the 70s, 80s, 90s and now. I have no idea what that makes me. I always thought it made me a friendly person toward other bikes (doesn't matter what brand).