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09-23-11 | 05:52 PM
#78
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From: Williamsburg, Tennesse.
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09-23-11 | 07:22 PM
#81
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I'm a lot like the OP. As a cyclist, I feel special, and like to amplify that special feeling when I see another like-minded cyclist, so I always wave. If she/he waves back, I'm gratified. If she/he doesn't, I find it kind of irksome and usually turn around, follow them to a quiet and/or remote area, push them off their bike, jump on them, put my hand through their ribs, pull out their still-beating heart and wave it in their face, just to see their expression as they expire.
That's just me, though.
That's just me, though.
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09-23-11 | 07:36 PM
#83
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09-23-11 | 07:47 PM
#84
Bourbon junkie
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From: NorCal
WTH? You're a little creepy...
It would be just your luck to not be assisted by one of those kind wavers that you ignored, after you are struck and critically injured, by a nonchalant driver, who like you, didn't care to acknowledge your presence, either! 
Sometimes Karma is a real female dog...I'll tell ya!
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Sometimes Karma is a real female dog...I'll tell ya!
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09-23-11 | 09:23 PM
#85
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From: SE Minnesota
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It would be just your luck to not be assisted by one of those kind wavers that you ignored, after you are struck and critically injured, by a nonchalant driver, who like you, didn't care to acknowledge your presence, either!
Sometimes Karma is a real female dog...I'll tell ya!
-Slim
Sometimes Karma is a real female dog...I'll tell ya!
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09-23-11 | 09:25 PM
#86
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From: SE Minnesota
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Not waving back is just rude. Surprisingly most of them seem to be coasting or doing a wopping 14mph. So hardcore. I don't even bother to check anymore though, I give my biggest fredliest wave and then look back to where I'm going. I don't wait to see if I get a wave or a snub or the finger, I'll be friendly and will be the one to initiate it.
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09-23-11 | 09:39 PM
#87
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From: Williamsburg, Tennesse.
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Translation: I am the Master Roadie, you must bow down in reverent silence whilst I activate my Watts and hold my deuce in.
09-23-11 | 10:04 PM
#89
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From: N Central Illinois
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I usually nod, raise a hand off the bars or say hey, but rarely does a roadie return the gesture in these parts nothing wrong with it just strikes me as weird that in the middle of nowhere two people cross paths with a common interest and can't acknowledge each other.
09-23-11 | 10:09 PM
#90
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From: Point Loma, CA
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Nod or a finger, but never a wave.
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09-23-11 | 10:35 PM
#91
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From: Northern California
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So wavers are vindictive ********? Thing is, I might not wave, or I might wave and maybe you do or don't see, but I'll always offer a cyclist a hand. Because there are things that matter and there are things that are trivial BS. Some people just can't seem to figure out which is which.
I will always acknowledge other human beings who are willing to acknowledge me..That's just being civil!
How much energy does it take to at the very least, give a nod, a smile, or a wave?
Why should we even expend the energy to discuss something so obviously trivial?
Just simply acknowledge another person's existence
- Slim
09-23-11 | 10:55 PM
#92
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From: NorCal
Demented isn't it? Don't wave and I'll fantasize about bad things happening to you.
So wavers are vindictive ********? Thing is, I might not wave, or I might wave and maybe you do or don't see, but I'll always offer a cyclist a hand. Because there are things that matter and there are things that are trivial BS. Some people just can't seem to figure out which is which.
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09-23-11 | 11:08 PM
#93
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It was just an example!.....Now you've catapulted the example into the stratosphere!
I think you just might be a Bourbon Junkie...
Have A Nice Sober Day!
09-24-11 | 05:55 AM
#95
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From: SE Minnesota
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That person might also be annoyed by it because he's at the end of a crappy day dealing with crappy people and just looking for some time alone in the saddle and not interested in being sociable with every grinning idiot on a bike. You just don't know. I realize it's hard but try to comprehend that not everyone is just like you.
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09-24-11 | 06:06 AM
#96
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From: Jax, FL
That person might also be annoyed by it because he's at the end of a crappy day dealing with crappy people and just looking for some time alone in the saddle and not interested in being sociable with every grinning idiot on a bike. You just don't know. I realize it's hard but try to comprehend that not everyone is just like you.
It's OK to be nice to people.
09-24-11 | 06:12 AM
#97
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From: Adrift
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09-24-11 | 06:37 AM
#100
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