Dear GSXR rider,
I am a very new rider, and I make it a point to wave at most bikers I see, my only exception being if they are acting like complete idiots. Unfortunately, I gave you the benefit of the doubt only to find myself breaking my own waving rule.
While I was riding along yesterday evening I saw you on your GSXR heading towards me in the opposite lane, so I threw out a wave, only to realize mid wave that you were in the process of hopping up and standing on your bike, hitting the throttle first to get my attention.
I will be the first to say that I don't quite have the cajones to do something like that, and yes it does take certain amount of skill-- but you did it on a pretty busy city street with traffic right behind you at nearly 50 mph. At that point it is no longer impressive, just reckless and dangerous. Personally, being a 3rd degree black belt, I am very good at kicking people in the face. I mean really good. However, I don't run around kicking people in the face in public recklessly to attain approval from others. Are we seeing the parallels?
And what if in my awe of your incredible and superior skills I had shat my pants, causing me to swerve towards you? Standing on top of your bike, I doubt you would have any ability to avoid any kind of obstacles (whether it be a pants pooping rider or water bottle being blown across the road, etc). And if you happen to fall off, not only are you going to get your stupid self run over, but what about the people that swerve to avoid killing your aforementioned stupid self only to cause more innocent people to get injured/killed because you wanted someone to see you do something cool?
Getting to the point, I found myself actually feeling bad about having given you a wave, as you pretty much just made the whole lot of us look like morons, and put many other people in danger.
I will say, however, that a lesson has been learned. From now on I will most definitely be more conservative with my waving.
Sincerely,
Lants
I am a very new rider, and I make it a point to wave at most bikers I see, my only exception being if they are acting like complete idiots. Unfortunately, I gave you the benefit of the doubt only to find myself breaking my own waving rule.
While I was riding along yesterday evening I saw you on your GSXR heading towards me in the opposite lane, so I threw out a wave, only to realize mid wave that you were in the process of hopping up and standing on your bike, hitting the throttle first to get my attention.
I will be the first to say that I don't quite have the cajones to do something like that, and yes it does take certain amount of skill-- but you did it on a pretty busy city street with traffic right behind you at nearly 50 mph. At that point it is no longer impressive, just reckless and dangerous. Personally, being a 3rd degree black belt, I am very good at kicking people in the face. I mean really good. However, I don't run around kicking people in the face in public recklessly to attain approval from others. Are we seeing the parallels?
And what if in my awe of your incredible and superior skills I had shat my pants, causing me to swerve towards you? Standing on top of your bike, I doubt you would have any ability to avoid any kind of obstacles (whether it be a pants pooping rider or water bottle being blown across the road, etc). And if you happen to fall off, not only are you going to get your stupid self run over, but what about the people that swerve to avoid killing your aforementioned stupid self only to cause more innocent people to get injured/killed because you wanted someone to see you do something cool?
Getting to the point, I found myself actually feeling bad about having given you a wave, as you pretty much just made the whole lot of us look like morons, and put many other people in danger.
I will say, however, that a lesson has been learned. From now on I will most definitely be more conservative with my waving.
Sincerely,
Lants