Topic: Wave to scooter riders?

[switchum]

Here's another from the same website.  Make sure the volume in on so you can hear it. 

http://www.maxmotorcyclevideos.com/mediaviewer/441/hot-chick-rider-crashes-her-scooter.html

 Hehehehehehehe... "I AM SORRY!!  I AM SORRY!!"

[Gordon]

Here's another from the same website.  Make sure the volume in on so you can hear it. 

http://www.maxmotorcyclevideos.com/mediaviewer/441/hot-chick-rider-crashes-her-scooter.html

 Hehehehehehehe... "I AM SORRY!!  I AM SORRY!!"

Nice Flintstone brakes!

[sangyo soichiro]

Here's another from the same website.  Make sure the volume in on so you can hear it. 

http://www.maxmotorcyclevideos.com/mediaviewer/441/hot-chick-rider-crashes-her-scooter.html

 Hehehehehehehe... "I AM SORRY!!  I AM SORRY!!"

Nice Flintstone brakes!

I'm guessing those are the tourist scooter riders you guys mentioned a few posts back.  Must be from some tourist vacation hotspot.

[Grnrngr]

They do seem to get back on their feet fast..even without flipflops..    gotta say tho, if it was me that got rearended in the first video, I'd be all about suing the crap outta the guy speeding and passing on the right, no matter what i was riding or driving..

[2wheels]

Anyone who is out there, exposed to the sun, wind and rain.
Who smells the world around them and feels the air in there face.

Deserves a wave.

I even waive to HD riders and the occasional horse.  But they rarely wave back.  No matter, everyone is welcome to there own thing.

[BeSeeingYou]

I would wave.

[axehole54]

I'm a friendly guy with a sense of humor... (gotta be I drive a 32yr old bike that I have to explain to most people cause they just see an "old bike that looks like a crusier" ) so I wave to almost anyone... I don't usually wave to the scooter riders but if they wave I will wave back enthusiastically... I've noticed that the older guys on sport bikes/harleys/big cruisers will usually wave where the younger guys don't as often. seems like all the people old enough to remember what a sohc 4 bike is either has a soft spot or at least an understanding of what we ride... So I say keep moral high and wave to the scooter riders... wave to harley guys, wave to sportbike guys, wave to the scooter guys, hell wave to a kid on a chopper bicycle... they're suffering enough 

[Ichiban 4]

Yeah..Why not?

Way I figure it..my start in riding two-wheeled vehicles included scooters (actually the Lambretta and Vespas I rode were..are still pretty neat rides..although not nearly enough power for me today).

Think the new generation of scoots today are also pretty awesome.  I mean with a Honda, Yamaha or Suzuki scoot with twin cylinder 500 cc engines..that will cruise @ 80 mph..what's not to like..or wave at?

I'll even wave @ Harlet riders..although most seem too stuck-up to wave back.

Ichi

[hotpocket]

I even waive to HD riders and the occasional horse.  But they rarely wave back.  No matter, everyone is welcome to there own thing.

most horses i've met have a hard time waving

[dave500]

where i live on the gold coast isnt really big,i drive a skip bin truck,theres about ten companies here and we nod or so to each other as we pass,and have a quick yack at the dump,tip truck drivers dont,were all in the dust and rubbish together.

[switchum]

I would wave.

  They look very nice. nom nom nom...

[Gordon]

They do seem to get back on their feet fast..even without flipflops..    gotta say tho, if it was me that got rearended in the first video, I'd be all about suing the crap outta the guy speeding and passing on the right, no matter what i was riding or driving..

Looks like that was in Japan, where they drive on the left and pass on the right.  Scooter rider should have checked to make sure nobody was overtaking in the right lane before moving over, and why the hell did he hit the brakes when he finally did see that someone was coming up quick behind him? 

[Grnrngr]

you're right... first time I saw it I thought I saw traffic in the other direction on the other side of whatever they were doing in the middle of the road at the very beginning. Watched it again..definitely Japanese speaking..my bad...

[RAFster122s]

Ichi doth pen >
> I'll even wave @ Harlet riders..although most seem too stuck-up to wave back.
>
>Ichi

The problem with Harlet riders is the b*$*(h between their legs is fickle and will break down if attention to any other bike or rider is given...

[Old75_ratafe]

I think I would if they waived first. My honest opinion though is if it is under 250cc It should be off main roads and on a dirt track somewhere.  Here around detroit suburbs their usually smart enough to stay off main roads as they know no one on the road can't drive and the 17yo in the suv on his cell phone will most likely just run them down and not even notice to stop.

[hotpocket]

i waved to a large fellow on a scooter today.  he looked like he'd just won the lottery, he was so happy/surprised.

[zanorak]

I also live in Michigan. I was told that the law makes some kind of distinction between NEW scooters/mopeds and OLD scooters/mopeds. The new ones require helmets and if they go over 35/have more than 50cc they require a license while the OLD ones don't. Most cops don't bother with knowing this (or so I understand) and so they interpret any scooter as being in the latter category.

That being said - I started riding years ago on a moped. (go ahead and HA HA at me... but I was BROKE) I hooked up with this bunch of folks called the moped army. Totally way too mod and cool for their own good. Most of them were just snots. But SOME of them - oh man! This one guy got like 5 hp out of 50cc! And punch out an old Puch or Garelli and you could do 70 mph no prob! Some of these folks are pushing the edge of stoichiometry every day. So yeah, some of them deserve respect. I would wave to the old schoolers, or the young kids rockin the 1970's iron. Any day. I would NOT wave to the new scooters though. They just invite disaster around here. I even see guys in business suits riding new vespas at 80 like they were trying to kill somebody. Not to mention the beach crowd....

[syth82]

Only if their post count is high enough? 

Seriously though, I'll wave to anybody.

On a side note, several people mentioned folks with DUIs riding scoots. When I lived in Michigan I worked with a guy who had 4 previous convictions, then got arrested driving a moped on the sidewalk drunk. If I remember correctly he got 8-10 years.

[fmctm1sw]

I wave at scooter riders, hell, I wave
at anything really, but they don't seem to
understand. Different generation I guess.

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[Fabricator]

 As far as scooters, and any other motorized 2-wheeler; if its safe, and they are in a safe situation, I will wave.   Who cares if they wave back.  Being cordial must start somewhere.  Now that being said, if there is a heap of bike traffic, I usually take the safe approach of keeping my hands on the controls.  The occasional nod will have to do!

  If I'm on a slow twisty 2-lane, I'll even wave/nod to the occasional car/truck;  especially if they have the window down and an arm resting on the door.   I waved at a guy in an older Porsche convertible last week (He ended up beside me at a light, and the smile of the old man, and the thumbs up, suggested that he may have been farmiliar with these 70's bikes).   He changed lanes and followed me home through some nice twisties.  He was a good driver, and we both had a good time, and waved again after the "carving" was through. 

Fabricator

[apex_seeking]

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I'm a friendly guy with a sense of humor... (gotta be I drive a 32yr old bike that I have to explain to most people cause they just see an "old bike that looks like a crusier" ) so I wave to almost anyone... I don't usually wave to the scooter riders but if they wave I will wave back enthusiastically... I've noticed that the older guys on sport bikes/harleys/big cruisers will usually wave where the younger guys don't as often. seems like all the people old enough to remember what a sohc 4 bike is either has a soft spot or at least an understanding of what we ride... So I say keep moral high and wave to the scooter riders... wave to harley guys, wave to sportbike guys, wave to the scooter guys, hell wave to a kid on a chopper bicycle... they're suffering enough 

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