Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1135 Posted: Wed Aug 15 22:10:38 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:55:40 EDT References: <1501@proper.UUCP>, <892@drutx.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 37 Keywords: touring,waving (hands) -- >> 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. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 15 Aug 84 [28 Thermidor An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***