When I ride I try to wave at every motorcycle I see on the road. I have made this a part of my rides, it is my personal form of entertainment during my rides. I have noticed that not everyone returns the wave. When I wave I make a loose fist and point with 2 fingers towards the oncoming riders front wheel. I also noticed have that there are several forms of return waves, some just raise their fingers without ever removing their hand from the handlebar, some wave straight out to the side, some raise a hand up, some do like me and put their hand down and out...most interesting is the people hwo refuse to return the wave...this amuses me the most. I have noticed that if it is a large pack of Harleys that the leader (probably the alpha of the pack) will seldom wave, but the last in line most likely will (probably hopes that none in front of him notice). The most perplexing for me is when passing a large group of riders, do I do a wave for each rider...I finally adopted the technique of one long continuous wave till they are all past me...I live in the Pacific Northwest and I was able to ride most of the winter and spring and during the cold weather riding I noticed that everyone regardless of M/C type returned my waves...interesting, I guess the snobs are a bunch of candya** fairweather riders. I am curious to know how others feel about this topic, and your experiences???
Must be a PNW thing, as this exactly matches my observations as well. I return waves to anyone / everyone, even scooters (it's getting harder to ID them from the oncoming profile).
I initiate a wave at all 2 & 3 wheelers, except HD riders, unless they wave first. Too many of them are stuck up, and ruin it for the rest of them.
The other snob group I have noticed are LEO's. They wave at each other, but rarely wave back to me. Once, one initiated a wave (going other direction), but given the double take he did, I think he thought I was a LEO too. I waved back anyway.