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I'm pretty good about wearing my helmet, but I've been going sans jacket because of the ridiculous heat. I'm just saying that it's kind of cool how they get to dress up like a space explorer every time they ride.
Question. Who do you give the biker peace sign / head nod to?
Took the bike out today and needed to stop for gas. Now, I give the downward peace sign or head nod to anyone on a bike regardless of brand or style of bike. I don't really care when it's not returned for whatever reason. I pull in to the gas station and there is about 15-20 HD riders. Mostly baggers with those giant front fairings. As I pull in, they all turn to look. I get my gas, kick start it and start to pull out. I throw up the peace sign and get nothing but a stare from all of them.
This isn't a rant because that's exactly what i expected. These guys were all black vest, hoodies, and they all wear sneakers for some reason. Like they watch too much Sons of Anarchy. Anyway, that doesn't intimidate me so I always throw a peace sign up. I think not looking at them is weaker than acknowledging them.
Today I chose to ride the 1975 Honda CB400 Four but I bet I'd get the same stare if I was on the '78 Yamaha RD400.
Anyway, I took these pics when I got back home. IMO, it's pretty clean. Maybe they couldn't figure out what it was?
Question. Who do you give the biker peace sign / head nod to?
Took the bike out today and needed to stop for gas. Now, I give the downward peace sign or head nod to anyone on a bike regardless of brand or style of bike. I don't really care when it's not returned for whatever reason. I pull in to the gas station and there is about 15-20 HD riders. Mostly baggers with those giant front fairings. As I pull in, they all turn to look. I get my gas, kick start it and start to pull out. I throw up the peace sign and get nothing but a stare from all of them.
This isn't a rant because that's exactly what i expected. These guys were all black vest, hoodies, and they all wear sneakers for some reason. Like they watch too much Sons of Anarchy. Anyway, that doesn't intimidate me so I always throw a peace sign up. I think not looking at them is weaker than acknowledging them.
Today I chose to ride the 1975 Honda CB400 Four but I bet I'd get the same stare if I was on the '78 Yamaha RD400.
Anyway, I took these pics when I got back home. IMO, it's pretty clean. Maybe they couldn't figure out what it was?
All they knew was that it wasn't a Hog, so therefore you were not worthy of being acknowledged by them. These types are true believers and to them H/D is the be all and end all of motorcycles. Most of these true believers neither know nor care about any other type of bike. They are derisive of other bikes and and the people who ride them. They can't appreciate anything different and are too myopic to even realize the depth of their own ignorance. By the way I like your bike, very nice.
This has been pretty much my experience -- ONLY Hog-riders ever ignore other bikers, which is why I have said far further back in this thread that a lot of them are a-holes. In conversations with gnatty8, however, I have discovered that this may be a regional problem rather than the case all across NorAm.