Hot Rodders and Bikers.

Hey I saw one of those once, did ya get to ride it? When you rode it did it go Hoooooooon Daaaaaaah.

Are we havin' fun yet? Nothin like a good old OT thread to bring out the best in us.

A close friend had a '66 with a mag that he used for bar hopping. Somehow he managed to keep his leg stiff one night and screwed his knee pretty bad. I had learned that you always started a dirt bike with a slack knee so when one of us needed to get it started for him I got elected. I kicked it through and let my leg go slack and it drove my knee almost up to my chin. I was a little sore for a couple of days and he bought an electrick starter for his big bike, his knee bothers him to this day.

 

No doubt about that, but I'd have been dead long before common sense overcame testosterone if I'd gone with motorcycles. Hell I dang near kill myself crashing on my mountain bike.

 

No clue why we do it--we just do it.....

 

Now I know what "farmer finger" means. I learned something today! Woot!

 

Don't take this the wrong way but I have been the road rash king more than once in my lifetime and I can't imagine what it would have been like if I was riding in shorts and fairy fliers.

Very large testicles my friend.

Oh I dunno, I kissed the hay bales on the Mile track at San Jose at well over 100 once and I'm still here. Its not like ridin' hell bent for election down the side of a mountain.

 

Jeeeeeeez. I save my shorts for the car , damn sure not on my scoot.
Alot of things are car friendly & not meant for motorscooters.

 

My first bike 30+ years ago was a 50 H.D. Panhead. It had a foot clutch, with the shifter mounted to the transmission (Suicide Shifter), putting the shifter ball under your left leg, which was a popular modification back in the day. At the same time you moved the front mechanical break control to the right side. It was eaiser riding around town to leave your hand on the shifter, rather than moving it up and down to the handlebar between shifts. So when you passed another rider instead of raising your hand up in the air to wave, it was easier just to wave down. Atleast that's how it worked back then. I have a 47 Knucklehead that's outfitted the same way, and everyone still gets the down wave.

 

Some "bikers" are full of shit.

Had one in the early 80's, the Suzuki and Kawasaki 4 cylinders were faster and had better ground clearance. It was purely a novelty really.



And the "special Harley wave"... bwahhahahaha. That shit made me really laugh.

 

Well Gents...It's been fun.....but.....
I gotta get in the shower and get cleaned up...(Yep, I am a biker that is clean) and head out on my Harley...
A bunch of us are riding today with one of ours that crashed his bike a few years back, and is paralyzed from the waist down......
He will drive his handicap van, and the rest of us will "Escort" him up to an old favorite hang out of his on our Harley's ......
Good times ahead, and just to re clarify...I have no problem with any bike or rider.....(well maybe with some of the crotch rocket bozos)....as I originally said, two wheels is two wheels...
Oh gosh, now I need to remember what I am doing when/if I wave today at another rider, or Hot Rod....let's see....Harley secret wave, middle finger, farmers wave, thumbs up, Gold Wing "elbow-elbo wrist-wrist", or nothing....crap, now I am confused....
Cheers....

 

It used to mean something when Motorcycles rideers were a rare and hardly breed due to the roads and the agricultural nature of the bikes themselves.
And whether or not the so called "Bikers" like to admit it, Guys in British Sportscars did the wave as well, kind of for the same reasons, you didn't see lots of MG's or Triumphs on the road and they were pretty much prone to break downs and work on them your self nature as well.
I saw this recently on a bike forum and had to laugh.
STOP WITH ALL THE WAVING ALREADY - As sure as the first day of Spring when every bozo has their bike out it starts. The Wave. People with whom we only share the same transportation choice feel the need to mutually acknowledge each other like a bunch of prom queens. It used to be the only reason for an errant hand gesture was the warning of a dead skunk or worse. Like the last scene in Easy Rider when Dennis Hopper gets blown away for flipping off the redneck in the pick-up. A Wave gone wrong. Still the Wavers assume we're all long-lost brothers. Weekend chrome polishers all cruising toward us in dire need of validation. Okay, we admit it. We see you. We're happy for you. Just keep your hands down and eyes up. And if you feel the urge to wave, save it for the next redneck in a pick-up. And let's hope for the best.

A few years ago we were at a HOG rally - a few thousand bikes in a small town, and every one of these clowns felt the need to wave every two seconds. So a friend of mine's wife went to the store and bought a great big pair of stuffed white "hands". She put them on and then made this giant wave with both hands at all these Bozo's. We laughed our asses off and some of these joker's actually got mad about it - too funny.

 

And from the same "Biker" forum
BIKERS ARE NOT AN OPPRESSED MINORITY - The "us" versus "them" attitude is so last century. Your hair (shaggy or shaved), tattoos and chain wallets haven't scared anyone for a long time. The eye rolling you attract from folks and real motorcyclists have more to do with your pathetic herd mentality than the need to discriminate. Part of which is your inane desire to feel the world doesn't understand you. The t-shirts say, "If you have to ask you wouldn't understand." Well, nobody's asking. And no society is not out to get you. So give up the glamour of being a second class citizen and accept that you and your lives are at best average or slightly below.
Again I have to laugh at pointing fun at ourselves.

 

Garbage bikes well mine is made here trader. I ride drive American and proud.

 

Now that's funny.

 

The have to ask and not understanding thing has never had to do with mainstream anyway. It has nothing to do with Harleys and everything to do with club life.

The spring time stop waving thing had to have come from one who rides year aroud and uses his bike as his primary form of transportation. Again as a rule that goes back to club life.

I would not expect more than a dozen or so on this site would understand it and even though there are probably several thousand that have read hunter's book he didn't understand and it is highly doubtful that those that read his little snap shot of club life would either.

Getting back to "the wave" it is just like I explained it earlier, no majic special meaning for how many fingers, or which direction they are pointing, it is just hello. To see a bunch of silly little girls making it into something that it is not is actually quite humorous, some things are just not that deep.

Oh and we were never an oppressed minority. Tramps are never down and there is nothing that anyone can do to make them that way.

 

Bringing up bicyclists again ... people gripe because roadies tend to not wave at mountain bikers or casual riders. So that's another thing common among two wheelers.

That's the mountain dew vision of mountain biking, and it's about as real as "Sons of Anarchy" is to MCs. Some are that way, most aren't.

 

Live long and make lotz of babies...

 

Well not everyone ever rode on a mile dirt oval as well.

I've never watched Son's of Anarchy, as a rule dont watch car movies either. Neither has much to do with life I am afraid.

Hdonlybob,
Have a good ride my friend. Asphalt was made to meet rubber, try and keep it that way.

 

As one who has ridden for over 40 years and got my first Harley in '73 I think I am qualified to laugh at the absurdity that it has all become. And yes I have read Hunter's book, along with Sonny's books and I count among my friend's the Pres. of various Chapter's of the HA, Mongols and Vago's, although we sure don't all hang out together at once.

 

I would certainly hope not, I know a vago or two. Not too proud of it but I know a couple and I may have even met a Mongol at one time or another.

I wasn't pointing at you by the way. Think it is silly for one to think that the saying about lack of understanding has to do with harleys. AMA types and shriners have riden them for years, it doesn't get any more main stream than that.

The thred started out silly, if someone in a caddy had waved there would have been no question.

 

I see VERY few bikers who are individuals.

 

He's an Angel.. L.A. chapter

 

How would ya know?

 

I knew this thread'd have some legs...

 

I liked the nonsense in the middle best. Some of the stuff is just too damned serious for a BS thread.

Sibling, I like that.

Deuces,

You don't get PMs, check my profile and drop me an email.

 

Could someone give me the short version of this thread?
To me it looks like 9 pages about someone being waved at.
Please and thank you.

 

That's pretty much it. Some dude on a scooter waved at some other dude in a car and he wondered if it meant anything special.

A lot of BS, some fun banter and that's about the long and the short of it.

 

waving? that was so 8 pages ago. now we are into the HA portion of the thread, where people will chime in with thier various HA stories and how cool that makes the story teller for being associated with the group, no matter how thin the association is.

I need to find a job with more to keep me busy during the day.

 

Thanks!

 

I ride almost every day and when I stop where there are "bikers" they all have the same bolt on HD crap and their weekend "biker" costume on. Not good or bad, just not very many of them are unique in my experience.

I like all aspects of the motorcycle world. I have built choppers, rode motorcross and ride an Italian naked super bike daily. I don't have a costume to fit any of those, I just get on and go.

I like to wave as gay as possible.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

 

AZ now.