On waiving to other bikers..

First of all I am a not a believer in the whole brotherhood bullshit that is portrayed by your local Harley Davidson dealership. The brotherhood that upon you purchasing your new soulless chrome "factory custom" motorcycle by way of payments that you are allowed to stretch out over a nine year period, comes with a free one year membership to HOG. THE BROTHERHOOD. Horse hooey and a bag of biscuits. And the next day your driving around on your HOG and waving to every other dolt on a bike just like yours. Apparently, some where in the rule book it says, "you can only wave at people on other bikes of your brand or close proximity to your brand". DO NOT wave at anything that resemble modern technology unless of course it is a VROD only because it has the prerequisite HD stamped into the side of it, and because even though it is nothing more than a HONDA, it still qualifies if... you hang some sort of leather tassel off of the handle bars or your sissified body somewhere. If you are caught waving at any other style of two wheeled combustion run mo-chine, your eligibility for signing up for subsequent years of club membership will be revoked.

As rider of a shovel headed beater that was originally manufactured by HD back in 1979, I was always sceptical about the whole waving thing but I thought is was about the two wheels and the wind. So like an idiot I have been waving to anybody. Gixxers, scooters, beemers, shovels, EVOs, Kawis with no regard to what your name tag said. It seemed that I was being snubbed by some people. All of the other types of bikes would not wave at me. They would just stare straight ahead like they didn't notice me or had some real serious things on their mind. This left me with only the dolts that I spoke of previously, waving like they were fresh off the bus from Rusk (famous Texas Mental Institute for you yanks!). "Hi there fella, is yours on of them rigid tails?" So to hell with it. I decided to adopt the other guys way of doing things and just ignore them and their flapping. This was way more fun I must admit. The grin that it would put on my face as I passed two or three goobs in a pack with there goofy girlfriends all dressed up in her outfit of the latest HD attire all the way down to HD boots, socks and underwear including the pink flamed half shell helmet, that wouldn't save you from anything short of tripping over a chicken nugget. So that's it I found my slot. A non waver.

Then I came upon a situation that allowed me to acquire a bike of the newer variety. One built for long haul riding at high speeds. Not HD speeds. I am talking rocket ship fast. Smooth, ergonomics...sensible design, light weight, aluminum and alloys and electronically injected fuel. Not just cool ICE cold! so anyway I am out and about and I start noticing something is different. Those shitbird yuppies are no longer wagging their arm around trying to get you to approve of their costumes and their parade float chromed out Heritage. They are looking the other way....like they got some shit to worry about other than keeping the shiny stuff shiny. My construct is shifting. The polarity is reversed. Well those dirty sons a .........wait this is what I wanted. Hold on someone else is waving now.....I'll be a dipped in ditch water. Now the freakin sport bikes are waving. What is it all about? I feel dizzy with confusion. Who do I wave at? That's when I decided that I am no longer waving at anyone. Depending on what day it is I could be on either, the beater or the trump. I might get confused and wave at the wrong group. If I bother to raise my arm it will not be to wave at you with approval for the type of bike you ride. It will be to shoot the bird at you. You would not believe how much fun this is. To burn someone at speed. There is no taking back your goofy wave. You've been burned. And if your a waver keep this in mind. I am not giving you the bird as an assault on you personally. I just disapprove of waving at some and not others so you all get the same salute!