The biker wave

[Jenny]

Originally Posted by TehBilly

The Motorcycle Wave is something that's very real, and I've seen waves from bikers that are as varied as the bikes I've seen. Pretty much every biker I've seen save a few snobbish HD-riders will wave in their own way.

The two I tend to employ (depending on who I'm waving at) are the point and the "cruiser wave". When pointing I just use the index and middle finger to point in the general direction of the other rider. The cruiser wave is where I extend my arm down and out at about a 45 degree angle until we've passed each other.

I think the general consensus is that it doesn't matter how you wave, just that you do wave. Owning a bike makes you part of a "club". Crotch rockets, import or local cruisers, choppers - doesn't matter. We're all two-wheeled menaces!

That's my take on it at least.

I always get waves, even from snobby HD riders :-) The only people I have not received waves from have been a couple of college kids working wheelies on their sports bikes going down the road, and I won't wave to them anyway. You just don't do a wheelie while tail gating a very large car up hill. Hell, I don't even know HOW they manage that shit let alone why they're stupid enough to do it.

I was a passenger for eight years before getting my license. I always liked the wave because it gave me one (albeit small) responsibility besides being a good passenger. I could watch for bikers as they came by!

I've always noticed bikers. Always envied them. *grins*