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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: "Hello there"
Message-ID: <1135@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 22:10:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 22:10:38 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:55:40 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Keywords: touring,waving (hands)

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>> I have found the "Hello there" gesture to be accepted
>> and returned differently in different parts of the 
>> country.  Also, it depends greatly on the type of biker
>> involved as to how they will respond, for example:

>> 1)  Riders in Wisconsin never wave at anybody, its an
>>     unwritten law.....

I lived (& rode) in Wisconsin for 12 years.  The fair-weather
riders probably don't give you the time of day because they're
too busy cramming a season's touring into the 5 nice days that
aren't hunting season.  Bikers who pass me in January I don't
wave at, I salute!  The few.  The proud.  The mushers.  Yah, hey!

>> 9)  Riders on bikes under 500cc don't wave, they don't consider 
>>     themselves part of the same group, besides they're too 
>>     concerned with keeping they're rears from falling asleep
>>     from the vibration and watching out for semi's trying to 
>>     mow them down......

>> James Shallman   

I find just the opposite--there I am tooling up US 12 on a 200,
and none of the cruisers wave back.  I think they think I missed
a turn someplace.  But I wave long & hard--it helps return some
sensation to my fingers.

It's true that Harleys just zoom by, but if my kidneys were getting
that kind of workout, I'd be in a very unfriendly hurry myself.
-- 
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