For Mustaine: Biker waving rules.....

[Kaw1000]

Lets see....120 mile bike trip...go past 200 bikes along the way....thats 200 waves....too many waves for me.
Its over kill anymore....Corvette owners do the wave thing...but their is not that many Vettes on the road!

[59funkman]

I usually give the Harley-riding Village People lookalikes the limp wristed wave.

[SpazMan]

The 'boys' on the Harleys waved to me all the time. Impressed them with a 15' strip of rubber from my Yamaha 100cc Twin Jet when I left their bike shop.

As for reliability of HD, my 2000 FXST has 50k miles without any troubles and I ain't meticulous about doing maintainance. Right out of the dealership did a 15k mile cross country road trip.

I have a 2001 FXST and have 34,500 miles on it. I just change the fluids every year and go. 

[lazs2]

hubsie.. according to a lot of people I am too old to do a lot of things right now..   I still do em tho.   My dad builds homes and hot rods.. he is 80.  he just put a new closed drive line in his 40 chevy hot rod.

I don't ride much anymore..  droning down the freeway just doesn't do it for me anymore.   I take little 20-50 mile trips on back roads and such.   Give the grand daughter a ride around town in the cool of the morning or evening going to the store or park.   The bike sits in a shed or under a carport and has pine needles and cobwebs on it and the paint is faded badly.. it smokes out of one cyl for a minute if you leave it on the sidestand for any length of time and the oiler tubes leak a little on that side.   It fires right up and runs smooth as can be going down the road at 80 tho.



lazs

[Jackal1]

When I`m riding and someone waves, I wave back.

May snicker a l`il at some.........but I wave. 

[Mustaine]

Umm, more true than you think 

MAN did I get a dirty look from a guy on a harley with ape hangars, bandanna, leather vest, and straight pipes with an open hand on the bar wave. 

[moot]

All that matters is the ride.

[Xargos]

The bike sits in a shed or under a carport and has pine needles and cobwebs on it and the paint is faded badly.. it smokes out of one cyl for a minute if you leave it on the sidestand for any length of time and the oiler tubes leak a little on that side.   It fires right up and runs smooth as can be going down the road at 80 tho.



lazs

One out of ten Beemers will have blue smoke come out the exhaust when they first fire-up, even when they are brand new.  I know guys who got 50 miles to the gallon when their Beemers were new and still get 50 miles to the gallon with 200,000 miles on them.

Of all the bikes I've owned, the R100RS was my favorite.

BMW's are pace bikes, they can have a nasty pitch if you like to touch the breaks a lot (most have at least six inches of fork travel).  However, if you like to get on the back roads and do a constant 80 - 100 miles an hour over a long period of time, they're great.

[SpazMan]

Umm, more true than you think 

MAN did I get a dirty look from a guy on a harley with ape hangars, bandanna, leather vest, and straight pipes with an open hand on the bar wave. 

Funny you should say that. This past weekend I was up in the mountains doing a weekend ride. My buddy and I were parked at a gas station (he has a cruiser Yamaha V-star series) and a guy on a Harley with are hangers rides by and I give him a wave. Well he snubs me and keeps going. A few minutes later my bud and I are riding down the road and we pass this guy pulled over by a trooper hassling him about his ape hangers. I look at him laugh and procede to bust on my throttle hard.....  

See that's what happens when you are an a-hole.....

[lazs2]

yep.. go over speed bumps with a BMW and the forks soak it all up..  quiet and smooth bike.

They look kinda cool too with those big cylinders hanging out both sides

lazs

[CAP1]

I usually give the Harley-riding Village People lookalikes the limp wristed wave.

i usually give harley riders the thumbs up as i ride past their broken down bikes on the sides of the highways

[CAP1]

I have a 2001 FXST and have 34,500 miles on it. I just change the fluids every year and go. 

ya know, as much as i bust on harleys.i DO have to asdmit.......somewhere around 95 or so, they seemed to start becomming much more reliable than they ever were......if i was gonna spend a lot of money on another bike, it's be a new harley, or a new goldwing....but then i'm gettin lold now too

[Deth7]

I ride a Triumph bonneville T-100 07 black and red and even had a couple of harley
riders salute me hehe

[Mustaine]

I spent the day riding today, a little over 150 miles in and around Milwaukee.

I got no less than 15 waves from Harley's to Goldwing's, always the average guy out for a Saturday cruise. Each of those they were the one to initiate the wave. I started responding with the hand up being a newer rider, but 1/2 way through the day I was a full hand down wave.

I did give a few out first, 7 or 8 full blown Harley biker dudes with ZZ Top beards and bandannas didn't wave back, otherwise I got waves back regardless of the bike.

Funny thing, 3 of the bikes that did a full wave to me first were BMW cruisers. Maybe they just respect the 31 year old bike cruising along like it was just made

Overall, I'd say 25-35 waves over the course of 3 or 4 hours.

Speaking of, man the bike is running great! I am like a junkie, addicted to the slight vibration of the engine, whistle of the wind, total freedom. Riding is an experience like none other. Everywhere you go, even if you have driven the road 1000 times is different than what you are used to. The change in temperature passing a lake or river (or even fresh dark blacktop versus sun bleached pavement), the smells of a wild meadow or farm, the placement of manhole covers in the road. Couped up in a car you just don't experience where exactly you are like on a bike.

I may be a bit cocky, but I got it down, and am extremely comfortable on the bike. The only "trouble" I had today was an unfamiliar intersection. I had just left a gas station on a corner so I was in the right lane of a 3 lane road. While sitting at the stop light I noticed my lane ended in the first 250 feet past the intersection. With a fair bit of traffic I had only 1 option: goose it hard on the green light and get into the other lane. It was the fastest take off I had done on this bike and it was no problem. I settled in well ahead of the other cars right at the speed limit of 45.

I got caught in my first rain today. It was forecasted about 3 the rain would get here and I was about 30 miles from home at 1:30. I saw the clouds getting dark quick so I made a beeline for home. About 7 or 8 miles away the light stuff hit. I was on the expressway and every bike in view stepped it up a notch. "Summerfest" is going on here, and the bikes are out in force. I saw hundreds going the other way on the expressway, and there was a mixed bunch of 5 or 6 ahead of me. I couldn't keep up with them once that rain started. I may be a bit confident, but I wasn't about to go over 65 on wet pavement (I'm not stupid ). I did have my rain gear in my backpack, but I figured if I stopped to put it on under an overpass the downpour would be on me by the time I was done. I had called my buddy to let him know I was on the way, and no sooner did I rev up his driveway and park in his garage the gates of Heaven opened and POURED down for 20 solid minutes.

Once it all cleared up I spent another hour tooling around. I only stopped to go home and have a beer and smoke, and call it a day

[MiloMorai]

Mustaine, I hope you weren't wearing that backpack.

The snobbiest bikers around here ride BMWs but then this city is filled with simple servants so one should expect the snobbery.