Waving - the neverending saga (multiple threads merged into one)

[pratik8890]

You obviously learned English as your second language, now it's time to learn sarcasm.

Fixed that for ya

Apparently i sit noticeably off the side of seat too, no idea why, and never noticed until pointed out recently, possible i'm out of whack due to a bike prang in my teens, or a habit ( as also short in arse dept) of leaning to side to put foot out over last 40 odd years of riding tall bikes?

Owned a raked frame hardtail chopper with very extended forks back in the day and can confirm letting go of a handle bar to wave, is such a stoopid thing to do unless you want to lose control.

Fair enough but how about nodding your head slightly

[BigAl]

Ya gotta give a Nazi salute to chopper/cruiser riders as they are all skin heads

[BuzzardNZ]

You obviously Learned English as your second language, now it's time to learn sarcasm.

Fixed that for ya

It wasn't wrong in the first place, Learnt is common in British English, which is what we Kiwi's speak in NZ.

No Hello for you!

[pratik8890]

It wasn't wrong in the first place, Learnt is common in British English, which is what we Kiwi's speak in NZ.

No Hello for you!

Another Grammar Nazi HAha point taken I thought kiwi followed Americans thus I used learned! My bad

[ellipsis]

It wasn't wrong in the first place, Learnt is common in British English, which is what we Kiwi's speak in NZ.

No Hello for you!

...I think those people hailing from the sub continent are far more adept at speaking the Queens english than 80% of Kiwis...

[pratik8890]

Ya gotta give a Nazi salute to chopper/cruiser riders as they are all skin heads

I'll try that next time and will let you know of the outcome

[BuzzardNZ]

...I think those people hailing from the sub continent are far more adept at speaking the Queens english than 80% of Kiwis...

So did I, but not in this case.

[pratik8890]

So did I, but not in this case.

Get over it mate cos it going

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They don't wave because they are scared that the handlebars will vibrate off if they remove their hand from it. I thought this was already common knowledge.

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[Madness]

Get over it mate cos it going

[Swoop]

It is all explained in the link in my sig. line below. Just click on "Why bikers don't wave".

[EJK]

I think I'm beginning to like this Pratik dude. This is like watching American Idol audition with 3 Simon Cowells in the judges seat.

[tigertim20]

If this guy spent half as much time riding as he spends making retarded threads . . .

Its actually dead obvious, its because choppers have such fundamentally flawed handling and stability characteristics akin to a wobbly jelly. They need all hands on deck and none are free to wave. Of course, these inherent flaws would be no more if the riders had the sense to swing by my shop . . .

fixed that for you.

[pritch]

I was speaking to a 1%er and may possibly gained an insight in to why cruiser riders don't wave. The Harley guys who are into the "image" would die of embarrassment if they waved to a metric cruiser by mistake. Some of the Jap bikes are now virtually indistinguishable on the road from the Harleys that inspired them, so rather than make a dreadful mistake the Harley riders don't wave at anybody.