Hey you.
Yeah. All you Harley riders.
Stop being so anti-social.
Riding motorcycles is a fraternity and a brotherhood. Not an elitist snobby ivy league cult.
I ride a Supersport R6. It is my bike of choice. I like it because it looks nice, handles great, and has lots of power. I’m sure you like your bike for the exact same reason. How are we that different?
Everyone else on a bike waves. What makes you so fucking elitist and special that you can’t throw a hand out and acknowledge the people that acknowledge you?
When I come up behind you in traffic, don’t be a douche-bag and ride in the center lane so I can’t ride the other lane position. Who the fuck taught you to ride? I’m pretty sure I got my license from the same place that you did.
Come to think of it. I’m sure that I’M a safer rider than ANY of you. Superbike riders don’t give motorcycles a bad name. Asshole Harley riders do.
In the end we’re just people, in this brotherhood of bikes. Out for a ride on a nice day.
Skullbucket, full face helmet, leather jacket, or a hoodie and backpack, it makes no difference.
You ruin the experience for the rest of us you dicks. So man up. Stop being anti-social, and throw a wave the next time we pass each other.
Maybe your day will be a bit better for it. —Friendly Average Biker
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2010.
I think its cute how bikers wave to each other, theres a kind of sense of communion between all bikers, just how school bus drivers wave to each other. Acknowledging the fact that you’re both doing the same thing, something you enjoy doing.
I think that maybe some people think they’re better because they drive something different.
Even though they don’t wave you to, you can still be a friendly social driver and wave to others.
Way to be a friendly person.
same as those with jeeps and jacked up 4×4’s
I always like the bikers wave – it made me feel loved 🙂
On my Harley or riding my other trusty Iron Pony I always wave to ALL bikers, no matter their brand of wheels. Iron Pony is not a Harley, though equally respectable, yet most of the Harley riders will not return ‘the wave’ when I’m not on the Harley. I laugh at them, ‘specially the weekend riders pretending to be real bikers.
I’m wondering who said it was a fraternity? So they don’t wave, who gives a fuck. I don’t wave at people who drive the same type of car as me. If you want to wave do so but there is no law or rule that I know that anyone has to wave back. BTW aren’t both hands supposed to be on the handles?
I’m going to start waving and saying hello to everyone on the bus. Bus riders are fraternity too. Us against the bus drivers and their insistence on no drinks on the bus. We should all wear white hoodies with Chinese lettering to display our group loyalties.
Both hands are not necessarily required on the handlebars Bro Tim. On the old ‘suicide shifters’ one hand had to leave the handlebars to change gears. Hand signals also require one hand to be absent from the handlebars.
I like bikes. What I fucking HATE is when SOME riders choose to open their bikes up on city streets. It’s a cool sound, I’ll grant you that but it’s best reserved for the highway. Nothing more annoying than walking down the street having a conversation on a summer afternoon and having to stop talking while some attention whore, tiny-penised idiot winds his machine up while going 20km/h. Yes, we all see you now.
And you’re alone, naturally.
Lots of those tiny-penised idiots are GIRLS Booer! Some of us gals prefer the front seat of a motorcycle over just decorating the back! Some girls even like riding loud bikes. Who’d a thunkit?
I ride sports bikes like you, OP.
Personally I don’t really care about the wave. I don’t see why it’s such a big deal. If another biker gives me the wave I wave back if it’s safe to do so (i.e. I’m not in the process of leaning the bike or shifting gears), otherwise my hands stay on the handlebars (where they belong). I agree with OP that some Harley riders are pretty ridiculous…but others are pretty cool. I strike up conversations with riders of all types of two-wheeled machinery when I stop for food or gas, and I’m rarely disappointed.
HD drives are not stuck up, maybe some of the posers/wanna-bes are, but not the real enthusiasts.
Case in point, I drove 2 seasons (on a Suzuki…gasp) with a Harley chapter and I was alway welcome. Also, of all the times I’ve sat on the side of the road fixing my GK, or Shovel, it was only the HD people that stopped. One couple even went and got a can of gas for me.
I wave to just about anybody, other drivers, cyclist, farmers, kids, whomever, but I will not wave to you if you are being an ass, doing wheelies on the street or passing with oncoming traffic, for example.
So take the chip off your sholder, and have some fun.
I think everyone driving anything should wave to all other. Cars, motorcycles, skateboarders, cyclists, bus drivers, jeep drivers, long haul truck drivers. Then nobody would have their feelings hurt like the OP.
I’m with Bro Tim on this.
There is no fraternity…what would you be called ?
How about ‘bug parts in our teeth’.
As for waving I drove a bike for more than 10 years & the only people I waved to were people I knew.
To the poster, more than 1 motorcyclist is DEAD from riding side by side, you know loss of control & one idiot, bumps into the other idiot.
Stay in single file, your safer & so are the rest of us.
signed ” motorcycles aren’t even a speed bump to a large truck” – ~:)
Rather than single file, the staggered riding position is recommended.
Thank you Pavillion for making me LMAO!! I’m so waving to everyone today!
I’m currently learning to ride a R6, and I’m sure it’ll take me a while before I get the wave down pat, but I love that bikers and people who drive jeeps wave, I think it’s just a simple acknowledgement for the same love. (white hoodies…lol…still cracking up).
When i drove Oceanlady, the staggered driving was because we were drunk.
Which was a popular past time at the bike runs, with many of the crowd back then.
OP here.
I guess you can’t truly know what I mean by fraternity until you experience it. Bikers are a friendly bunch for the most part. It really is a brotherhood.
There’s something that binds you all together, and it just happens to be love of two-wheeled machines.
I’m not butthurt.
I just get annoyed when everyone on the road waves, and acknowledges, and is completely friendly, and these harley drives talk down to me like I don’t know what biking is REALLY about. Like there’s some inside secret to this.
It’s not what you ride, it THAT you ride.
More: Thank you for that interesting fact. I was indeed talking about staggered lane position as Oceanchick pointed out.
hmm u know what? no. I don’t ride my gixxer to be your friend. thanks, have a nice day by yourself.
Oh please not the, “if I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand”.
Really seem to have a hate on for HD, you happen to be refering to the SG/Perks crowd? LOL :>)
Can you by chance, even distinguish between a HD and a Steed, Marauder, Spirit, Dragstar, or damm near any Victory? Maybe you are mistaken. Maybe it’s your attitude.
Does the op happen to drive like this on surface streets?
http://www.bikesportnews.com/articles/arti…
Daily hate…I drove dirt bikes as a kid , I had a Suzuki, then I got a 350 Honda, I’ve owned a Triumph ,a Goldwing…which I have nothing but good things to say about (& I hauled more than 1 broken down Harley to the weekend Bikers bashes that were held around NS, with a 12 foot strap)
I also owned a Hardly a Davidson,AKA a sportster
THe only bike I ever really liked (loved actually) & could never afford &/or was never avaialble when I could afford it was an Indian. The Post war Big V twin Chief was what I really liked but any of the pre war bikes were IMO pretty cool.
FYI I seen a 2000 (that’s right a 2000 ! Indian Chief for sale recently (last year) for $10,000 not saying it wasn’t worth that…just more money than I was willing to pay at the time.
I really don’t see why you care so much about what Harley/cruiser riders think or do, OP. More often than not, the cruiser riders who talk down to other motorcyclists are exactly the ones who don’t know what riding is about…typically they just ride for 60 minutes or less to reach an agreed upon location (generally a Tim Hortons or a bar) and congregate with others like them to brag about the latest useless skull-shaped chrome accessory they spent a few hundred bucks on. To them, that’s a day of “riding”. Do you really want to associate with this crowd?
You should be laughing at their gay pirate outfits, not crave for their attention and friendship. Just hang out with real motorcyclists, ignore the Harley pseudo-badass posers, and be happy.
i enjoy all means of transportation, and i wave but not constantly
Paingirl…all forms of transportation ?
Even the bus ?
~;)
only if i’m driving it…no power at home but power at the shop^^
Since 50% of his staff live on the darkside of the harbour me boss has decided to stay closed today granting me a rare Saturday at home. I’m curled up on the couch with “The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet “(no homoerotic sniggering please). It’s the last in the Captain Alatriste novels of Arturo Perez-Reverte and my birthday present to myself. The oak trees on the grounds of the dacha are shimmying like healthy green dancers at Ralph’s Place but we still have power. Any trade today in your neck of the woods Painey, or will the morale fridge be opened sooner than usual? >; )
Powers still on in Elmsdale.
Beers are nice & cold.
Girlfriends hot ~;)
Going to be a nice relaxing day at home…unless the roof blows off !
As far as I’m concerned, all Harley drivers are retards. Oops, I said it out loud.
the power went out at the shop around 11 general. i was driving on st. margaret’s bay in the midst of it, not so bad really. we came home and read and watched the trees fall. the indoor critters were fine the corbies hid in the neighbours plum trees…mornin rawk
Mornin’ to you Painey. We lost power at about 2:30 – when the storm was over. Spent our day much like you – reading, BBQin, watching the stars. Our avian friends found shelter somewhere because they are back in full voice this morning. We lost some branches but no trees. Round about 8:00 p.m. the Juan flashbacks started kicking in. We were 9 days without power then. No Zombies…..YET
Good morning. I hope every bitcher had a relatively uneventful day yesterday. This was my first hurricane experience, but I was prepared for the power outage so everything was fine. 🙂 We got the power back at 11pm last night, at which time half of Halifax seemed to be still in the dark. I hope everyone will be back to normal soon.
We lost power for 5 or 6 hours.
According to the Truro radio, the whole ‘corridor’ from Truro down through Brookfeild, Stewiak, Milford, Elmsdale got knocked out about the same time.
See a few branches down no real damage, but we did put all our lawn furniture, deck stuff, & awning away before hand.
I wonder how many people got robbed last night … just because Halifax (save right downtown) was pitch black. Makes the looting easier.
Thankfully we didn’t lose power.
Maybe its because they think your plastic looking piece of shit looks retarded.
Ya. Real men only drive Harleys with the baffle removed from the muffler and smoke Marlboros.
Hey Pa! Get Elly Mae and Bobby Jo quick! We gotta wave to the fancy motorcycle people! Hurry! Nevermind sloppin the pigs for now! Git over here and wave! (Quit pinchin Elly Mae’s ass Bobby Jo ‘fore I come over thar an tan yer hide!)
It’s true.
And what about the ‘real women’ on Harley’s? Get with the times Freddd, your chauvinism is showing!!! Motorcycles are not male-dominated territory. BTW: the wave in reference in this bitch is the one shared between 2 or more passing motorcyclists. No one else need apply.
Ya those crotch rocket kids don’t realize that the high pitched whine as they whiz past at 200+Km/H dies out within a few kilometers – even with the doppler. Whereas on a still night a baffle-less harley will carry for tens of kilometers. You can wake hundreds of people at once – far more efficient. Really, why would anyone around here settle for less?
These kids expect real men to wave to them? And have the gall to post on here saying as much? Holy crap. Put them down, hard, now.
“Motorcycles are not male-dominated territory”…anymore.
Women on the front of motorcycles is nothing new. Lots of us aspired to more than just decorating the back of a bike. I have many female friends who like myself have been riding (as in cross-country or internationally, not to the local gathering spots and home) our own bikes for decades.
Man, woman; makes no difference as to who can exclude, chastise and demean! This is America! It is a free country! Pansy assed whiners, waaahhh! They won’t wave to me!
Maybe Harley drivers are sensible and like to keep both hands on the bars while on the road? I saw one of you dicks doing an Indian Larry on a dirt bike on the MacKay the other day! Idiot asswipes.
How can you live to annoy thousands for decades if you grate half your face off on the asphalt? Stupid whining losers. I’d rather be an anti-social bike buddy than a social bum buddy like these fags.
I’ve buried more than my fair share of men & women killed in bike accidents over the years. I have 4 friends living who are maimed with loss of limb(s) from murdercycle accidents. After my last big crash, I packed it in.
I am lucky to be alive seeing for awhile there I wasn’t, busted too many bones to list lost a kidney, still have a limp to this day. I’ll admit sometimes I was at fault. More often I was not. 2 of my 4 injured friends were T-boned at intersections, neither of them were at fault. 1 was coming around a blind corner & a tourist from Ontario who couldn’t see, so he decided to pulled the nose of his car out onto the road, just as they rounded the corner… they cut the bumper & front end right off the car. 2 Bikes involved 1 killed 2 injured 1 lost a limb, one of the others has a pinned leg. People I know killed were not just drivers, passengers were also killed.
I figured i had too much to live for to keep driving & got myself a large 4×4 & have been injury free, even though I have been in a couple of accidents in a truck. (rear ended once, head on once… they crossed the line)
I am sorry for your loss More, and I am glad that you have survived to tell us your story. It reminds me to look out for motorcyclists on the road as much as I can. My friend used to ride a small motorcycle, and while headed to come visit me, he hit a patch of gravel as he turned a corner and lost control. He only got some bruises and scratches, but the accident scared him enough for him to say “forget it” and quit riding. I still remember how happy his mom was when he decided to give up on his motorcycle.
I wasn’t looking for sympathy Newtohalifax, just life ‘eh.
Some of it sucks, & some of its not so bad, considering the alternatives !!!.
you drive a motorcycle & you are putting yourself out there at a much higher risk while on the road. The fact is when something goes horribly wrong on a bike, there’s not much between you & everything around you. I had a friend have his head torn right off, another who was run over by a tandem dump truck…crushed him from belly button to knees, he didn’t live long & cried for his mom to forgive him, & not to worry as he died. Tough shit to remember & part of the reason i drive bikes no ‘more’.