# Motorcyclists, do you wave?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 18, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737 "2003-06-18T17:04:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737/41 "2003-06-21T12:51:43Z")

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takin care of business, Elvis’ motto 🙂

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737/42 "2003-06-21T13:09:18Z")

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Ah, Elvis! I heard he and Cáit O’Riordan got a divorce. So she’s available! 😃

I like some of Elvis’s stuff, but I get tired of hearing _Radio, Radio_ all the time. I like _Veronica_, but it’s a bit sad.

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**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737/43 "2003-06-21T19:14:15Z")

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> \*Originally posted by FlyingDragonFan \*  
> \*\*Now, in oh-so-cosmopolitan South Florida, almost no one waves back. I kept it up for a while, but eventually I started feeling silly when the waves weren’t returned, so I don’t do it much anymore, unless the other rider does it first. \*\*

US1 South past the Last Chance Saloon. You get a ton of waves. Or out at US41 and Krome on Sunday morning about 8am. Other than that, everyone is scared of some third world country cager turning left from the right lane, or ignoring stop signs, or stopping where there are no stop signs, or driving like they were in Managua.

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**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcyclists-do-you-wave/182737/44 "2003-06-21T19:19:04Z")

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Oh, sportbikers tend to wave least, in my experience (western NY, Maine, GA, SoFla). I like the low hand wave, just under the level of the left handgrip. I have seen Harley Snobs refuse to return waves when I was on an old 1982 Honda CB400T, but the 1998 VT1100C had much better resopnses.

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