cops riding motorcycles
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04-06-2008, 10:01 PM
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RE: cops riding motorcycles
To wave or not to wave to a cop. this question gets asked of me a lot. I always tell people i do respond with a wave or a head nod every time I SEE someone waving. While looking through a laser scope you sometimes miss a wave and some think your an ***. I do wave back when riding on duty and also while riding off duty. I even wave back to the ones that don't wave with all 5 fingers, I do use all 5 in waving back though.
To me its funny when working on the Harley the cruiser riders wave more frequently then the sportbike riders and when on the Honda a lot of cruiser riders won't respond and the sportbike riders will. lol
Better for them to remember me as the 'guy who waved' than the '***** who ran.' Well said sixhundredrr I do agree with you well said.
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To me its funny when working on the Harley the cruiser riders wave more frequently then the sportbike riders and when on the Honda a lot of cruiser riders won't respond and the sportbike riders will. lol
Better for them to remember me as the 'guy who waved' than the '***** who ran.' Well said sixhundredrr I do agree with you well said.
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RE: cops riding motorcycles
ORIGINAL: OKIEZAC
I do the exact same thing, wave to everyone one i see. .
ORIGINAL: sixhundredrr
I wave to em wether (sp) bike or regular car. Better for them to remember me as the 'guy who waved' than the '***** who ran.'
I wave to em wether (sp) bike or regular car. Better for them to remember me as the 'guy who waved' than the '***** who ran.'
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04-06-2008, 10:32 PM
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RE: cops riding motorcycles
I have a good friend, now a PD sergeant, that was a motor for quite a while, and his insight is the same as RTB's. He waves, they wave, it's all good. It's not 'fraternization' with the public. Hell, I appreciate any sign of camaraderie, no matter what language that hand goes up in: cruiser, sport, enforcement, supermoto, even...well, with scooters I tend to point and chuckle rather than wave, but, you know, it's the thought that counts...
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04-06-2008, 10:52 PM
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04-06-2008, 11:32 PM
RE: cops riding motorcycles
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Like I said, something I wondered but, oddly enough, I've never passed a cop. I wave to everybody except scooters...even waved to a motorized wheel chair on the sidewalk once.
My cuz is a Harley rider, and he will only wave to other Harleys...which I give him absolute hell for since it's his dad's Harley. But whatever...a biker is a biker...except for scooter riders. They are tools.
Like I said, something I wondered but, oddly enough, I've never passed a cop. I wave to everybody except scooters...even waved to a motorized wheel chair on the sidewalk once.
My cuz is a Harley rider, and he will only wave to other Harleys...which I give him absolute hell for since it's his dad's Harley. But whatever...a biker is a biker...except for scooter riders. They are tools.
#19
04-06-2008, 11:48 PM
RE: cops riding motorcycles
Once I wave at a mall security guard on one of those two wheel gyro scooter deals. He waved back like a five year old, pretty hilarious.
I have had cops wave back to me, but like the consensus, none of them make the initiative. I also try to kiss *** and wave to local cops and staties if im not flying past them. Usually get a reply....
As for the cruisers... MOST of them will wave back, most. Its only the big fat burly and proud dudes with mutton chops and the leather vests, who are all secretly still in the closet, that wont wave back.
I have had cops wave back to me, but like the consensus, none of them make the initiative. I also try to kiss *** and wave to local cops and staties if im not flying past them. Usually get a reply....
As for the cruisers... MOST of them will wave back, most. Its only the big fat burly and proud dudes with mutton chops and the leather vests, who are all secretly still in the closet, that wont wave back.
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04-07-2008, 12:09 AM
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