The nod. Or wave.

[Flatcap]

How about a give-you-the-fingers thread?

[Del Fuego]

Plus the alternate ending for that poster

haha

[Del Fuego]

Thou shalt not start a waving thread

Damnit... here I was thinking I could get away with it here in the dark, dank, underground gimp den that is the scooter section haha

[McJim]

Damnit... here I was thinking I could get away with it here in the dark, dank, underground gimp den that is the scooter section haha

Yeah, I'm trying to remember the other cardinal sins of KB.

Starting a waving thread is one.
Which 250 should I buy? is another.
Advertsing a car for sale is likely to get you banned for life

[Flatcap]

[QUOTE=McJim;1553447]Yeah, I'm trying to remember the other cardinal sins of KB.
[QUOTE]

ATGATT?
Creationism vs Intelligent design?

[McJim]

Creationism vs Intelligent design?

The Scottish Thread? That's not a cardinal sin - that's a bona fide feature. Does anyone remember LOTPIHGAD?

[xwhatsit]

except when you get passed going through the twisties, uphill.... by a guy on a dirtbike.. haha that was pretty awesome/embarassing

Not to worry -- happens to guys on big sportsbikes all the time -- they won't admit it, though. Dirtbikes obey a different set of physics laws to the rest of us.

[WarlockNZ]

My only rule is if the other scooterist in question is wearing t-shirt/shorts/jandals/soup bowl, nods will only happen in return; never initiated - I just can't bring myself to otherwise.

I would just like a photo of a really bad scooter accident involving someone dressed like that, so i could give a copy to all that idiots riding without any gear.

And while I'm on the subject, WTF is with those little half face helmets scooter riders a wearing??

[mowgli]

I've waved at scooters in the past, not one of them waved back so I stopped.

Same for me although I still wave at scooters wearing full face helmets and what looks like riding gear. I don't expect skirts and hoodies to wave back.

As an aside in Wellywood there was heaps more waving/nodding than I see here in the Manawatu. Might be partly cos I no longer ride to work every day. Still a bit of a downer when your friendly gesture flops.

[Trudes]

There's a guy who lives around the corner from me who wears full one piece leather suit on his scooter.... just as well too really I think, I've seen him doing some dodgey shit on his scooter!

[Dave Lobster]

Same for me although I still wave at scooters wearing full face helmets and what looks like riding gear. I don't expect skirts and hoodies to wave back.

A lot of people with scooters have real bikes too.. just use the scooter for the commute to work, so their bikes don't get shagged up commuting.

As a rule of thumb, I'd never nod or wave at someone in a piss pot. Whether they're on a scooter/moped/big munter twin. But then, I wouldn't wave at people on little mopeds or coops on principle.

[McWild]

Anyone in Christchurch can probably recognise me as the scooterist in the rather bulky mugello armour and inappropriately sporty designed full face helmet.

What I really dislike about scooter riders with no gear at all is their self righteous attitude. I'm 7th form at high school, and I think I'm the only one, scooter or motorbike, who wears any gear above helmet. This wouldn't normally bother me (it's their skin) but it creates this whole attitude where you're suddenly a wuss for liking skin. I've gotten shit from people who don't ride anything at all even, because gear is equivalent to paranoia. But whatever. At least I'm warm lol.

And, to stay on topic, that's why I don't nod at people without gear.

[<G>]

A motorcycle cop gave me a friendly wave last Saturday on the Northern Motorway

I'm assuming that it was friendly as I didn't get pulled over...

[Swoop]

And while I'm on the subject, WTF is with those little half face helmets scooter riders a wearing??

So they protect their brain, but look fuc*ing ugly after the crash.

Chick's dig scars, but what is their opinion on facial reconstruction?

[vifferman]

I would just like a photo of a really bad scooter accident involving someone dressed like that, so i could give a copy to all that idiots riding without any gear.

And while I'm on the subject, WTF is with those little half face helmets scooter riders a wearing??

I picked up a scooter-riding (shiny black Piaggio or somesuch) guy one morning a few years ago, after a dork driving a car with fogged-up windows didn't stop at a stop sign, and took the scooterist out. He was OH SO Kewl, in his black jeans, no glubs, black denim jacket (undone), shades, and leather jandals. Not so kewl were his sore feet and knees, and dinner-plate sized rash on his back, after he went "Plop!" on the unforgivingly hard tarmac.
I felt like a plonker in full leathers etc., but....
Oh - he was also wearing a "little half face helmets" (black, natch!)
The scooterists who wear these (and little in the way of protection) do so because they are treating the scooter as a glorified pushbike, ergo, very little in the way of safety gear is required, or it nullifies the whole, "Hop on, twist the grip and go" freedom of scootering.

The next time I saw ScooterDude, he was wearing pretty much the same gear - hadn't learned anything from his encounter...