View Poll Results: when passing a scooter do you
Wave at them like they are anyone else on a motorcycle.
87
42.65%
pretend you don't see them and go on your way
64
31.37%
point and laugh
14
6.86%
try to get them to race you
29
14.22%
other
10
4.90%
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when passing a scooter
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From: Tasmania
I still wave to them, even if I don't get one back. Its not like I lost anything.
Here we don't have any of those stupid laws that say you don't need a licence to ride a scooter. So really they're just like us, only smaller. 50cc or 500, doesn't matter - licenced and registered. Lots of my friends own them - I even had a 50cc one myself, but I was too embarrassed to ride it on the street - and I mentor a group of newbies. A lot of them are on scooters, as are two of the other mentors.
But then there is the local scooter club. Some of them are like Harley riders - its bad for their image if they wave to someone on a real bike.
Here we don't have any of those stupid laws that say you don't need a licence to ride a scooter. So really they're just like us, only smaller. 50cc or 500, doesn't matter - licenced and registered. Lots of my friends own them - I even had a 50cc one myself, but I was too embarrassed to ride it on the street - and I mentor a group of newbies. A lot of them are on scooters, as are two of the other mentors.
But then there is the local scooter club. Some of them are like Harley riders - its bad for their image if they wave to someone on a real bike.
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agreed... but what really pisses me off is the harley guys out there that refuse to wave to street bikes because they are big headed or feel as though were just a bunch of punks with wanna-be bikes.... that irks me off
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From: Monte Alto Texas
Your right, when I bought my wife her ninja 250 to start on, as I was driving it home for her a guy on a harley tryed to make fun of me and that was the worst mistake he could have made. Even the little ninja kick its butt. I was the one with the last laugh. Johnny
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From: Thornton co.
Cant say i've ever come up on a scooter, lol not alot of em in my part of town, a ton of harleys though, i like when the guys kinda giving me the eye and the lady on the back waves, i actually feel bad when i cant wave, like today was turning into the neighborhood and had just pulled in the clutch and a guy on a electra glide heading the other wave dropped his hand, granted he probably understands, but i still felt like a ***
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I live in an area where it is just saturated with Harleys...but ironically, if I wave...they all wave back. 2 wheels is 2 wheels. I guess in some areas....some HD riders have yet to grow up.