Ducati Monster Forum

I ride for my own reasons which i am sure 99% of the people here understand and share.  Being part of a 'group' or 'scene' is not even a consideration to me.

That said, i commute most days to my office.  Not a bad commute, but dealing with Boston-area rush hour traffic and colder weather its not for everyone.  Three other riders in my professional building commute many days - a GSX and a Yamaha R somehting.  I have never met either rider, but always felt a kind of brotherhood.  Each morning we park our bikes in the same spot.

This morning, waiting in traffic on the highway the GSX pulls into traffic behind me - i recognize the bike and we ride in the last 15 minutes together.  Pulling into the garage i a, thinking "great, get to meet this guy (or girl) and say hi".  Not looking to be best friends, just share an acknowledgement of the cold ride and crazy traffic.

I pull into the garage first and ride around the long way as i do each morning so that i face out to leave.  The GSX takes the short route, cuts in front of me and parks in the protected spot that i park in EVERY DAY. 

Mildly annoyed, i think whatever the garage is huge and empty and pull up right next to him looking forward to saying hello.  The guy gets off his bike and starts walking to the elevator with his helmet on, without the slightest acknowledgement.  I get off, unbuckle and head for the elevator.

As I am about 10 feet from the door it starts to close.  We make eye contact and he lets the door close on me...

I just stood there, feeling like the dorky guy rejected by the popular girl at the 7th grade dance.

Just seems weird to me that you wouldn't take literally 20 seconds to say hello to another rider in your building.  Maybe its me?

You live in the NE right? Shouldn't you be used to that behavior by now?  [cheeky]

Sounds pretty rude to me, but whaddayagonnado?

Well... seems like the other dude is just a douche. Removing the fellow rider element from the situation, he's rude enough to just let the elevator just close in your face.  Perhaps he's not worth meeting... Or he might have just had a crap commute and was angry at the world... NE traffic will do that to a body...

Don't take it personally.

As Yuu said, if that is an example of his normal behavior maybe you're better off not meeting him.

Sounds like you were rejected by a MASSHOLE, which you are not.

I would have yelled out............"HEY CHIEF, THANKS ALOT"  [evil]

Give him another chance.....might have been a really bad day. 

Sometimes you just have to use a chainsaw to break the ice!  [moto]

if it were me i would goto work early and waite by the elevator to return the favour, even if it took a month!!!
i keed i keed.

What a douche!

I always say HI to the Triumph cruiser rider in my building.

I agree it seems odd and rude.  Hopefully it was just that he was having a bad day. :-\

shit, that's weird. i'd have attempted to strike up a conversation, and see if there might be a regular friday lunch group for the guys/gals that ride.

maybe bad day, maybe late, maybe stressed about a project, maybe you forgot to bathe, who knows. maybe just a d'bag.

After 20 years in CT sounds about right. Sad but true.

pee on his tire.


that solves everything

I always found pissing down the exhaust much more satisfying. But whatever works.  Just don't get to close to a hot exhaust. It hurts like hell and people look at you funny.

this has me chuckling.  Debating in my head the merits of hot vs. cold... [evil]

It is you.  Try being a cooler person in the future.

Just kidding  ;D  +1 on all of the above.  Chalk it up to someone being an asshole, and a fellow rider being an even bigger asshole.

While not everyone needs to be a part of a group, and for many motorcycling is a solo/rebelious activity, I don't consider people like that to be real motorcyclists.  Not real riders.  They either don't have enough experience to understand the bond, or are in it for the cool factor only, or both.  Or maybe he has a grudge against you because he keeps getting passed by Ducati riders in the twisties. :)

consider the following...
-knock bike over
-key paint job
-let air out of tires.

just kidding. no flaming please.
i'm a firm believer of karma, for me, for you, and for the Mass.Hole.
it's gotta be a NE thing.

Ciao!

Next time don't remove your helmet either and head butt the fool. Repeatedly.

Maybe he commutes in from Revere beach or something and had some sand in his panties?

Maybe he is socially awkward. Or, maybe he is a paranoid schizophrenic.

You are all ignoring the possibility that he has no face!

I've met riders like that... usually squids. Luckily, most of the riders in my building are coworkers, so we have a pretty good parking system in place.

Leave 5 minutes earlier tomorrow.

it wasn't so much that my feelings were hurt, i have enough friends, great family and a good life, it was more the chance to know another rider (of three total) in the same building etc.

I beat him in 9 out of 10 days - maybe he is just jealous of the sweet parking space i 'created' between two poles with lots of knock down protection.

Maybe he was riding at your business first, and then you started riding, and, 9 out of 10 times, steal the part he originally 'created'.

If that was the case, would you talk to you?

Is he an attorney?  That would answer your question.

you so funny.

Maybe he was in a mad rush or something.  I would just talk to him next time you see him and if he continues to be a jerk, forget that foo!

Or the parking space...  [laugh]

I live in Phoenix, not Boston.

WOW - Great point.  In that case, new topic, can someone tell me how to get piss out of my exhaust?

Hey white stripe. that was me on the gsx. sorry about that but i really had to fart and didn't think it would be fare to trap you in the elevator with me.

Lots of possibilities here....

A common enemy could help you strike up a conversation. I recommend you piss in the exhausts of all THREE bikes - yours included. Act suitably irrate when the pair of you 'discover' the atrocity.  ;D

Oh, check for security cams first.  [thumbsup]

It is incredibly tempting to start a thread on a gixxer forum "Totally pwned this noob in the parking lot today..."   ;D

LOL...

the part i forgot to mention is that the two bikes running in the garage at the same time set off a whole bunch of car alarms...if you can't bond over that what's left?

Kitty Litter.

It's not like that everywhere in the NE...

I mean...in NH we may not talk to you until we've seen you every day for 10 or 20 years...

but we'll hold the door. ;)

Screw him (or her)! 

Having a bad day is no excuse to act like that.  I work with a couple of HD guys that have the same type of attitude.  Luckily, I only have to deal with them on the three days a year that they ride.  You know, the three days that aren't cold, hot, rainy, windy, somewhat cloudy, and or humid.  Fortunately for all, they remind everyone that they are riders by wearing their HD jackets, boots, chaps (yep, chaps in their F350's).  They all come together in the break area at the start of the day to discuss why they didn't ride.  I can't tell if it is an audition for "Sons of Anarchy" or the Village People. 

(God I want to be a part of that group)

Uh, I mean,

 Pathetic!

Stig! probably?

he probably had a big pimple on his forehead and didn't want to take off his helmet  ;D

Here in SA it`s called Ducati envy [thumbsup]

Sounds like the average Bostonian...

You guys are over analysing this.  That guy just needed to poop really bad.  When you need to poop, you can careless about anything else in the world.  And you know the closer you get to the bathroom, the wrose you have to poop. 

When no one is looking rub your sack on his grips and dry hump his saddle  [wine]

At a local meet some guys on jap bikes came out for the night. The killer was their outro because they lined up in front of us (euro owners) throwing dirty looks and redlined their motors.

Hey, I'm a bostonian so I know how it goes. Push him on the floor when you see him.

Where's that pic of Charlie? [laugh]

I will only feel rejected if the rider is a hot chick  ;D
Otherwise I am kind used to it from those no wave back Harley riders.

Aw, poor thing.  :'(

ah yes.... the dreaded proximity cramps. It has been scientifically proven that when you have to poop, the closer your proximity to a toilet , the more your bowels cramp in anticipation of the forthcoming poop. i think it was on mythbusters...

So, did you get your spot back today?

NOOOOOOO!!!!!





My eyes hurt just thinking about it.   [bang]

Sure did. 

Good thing came of this.  I realized that if i leave MY helmet on all day (with earplugs of course) no one bothers me at my desk...

That's what I was thinking?
Socially awkward - my other charitable thought.

Could be a douche, and you've already wasted waaaay to many resources worrying us

 [laugh]

funny, I was thinking about doing the same


only...

I don't ride to work

I think he's jealous because your Duc with the Arrows sounds WAY better than any GSXR [laugh]

I don't know why everyone thinks just because another person rides a motorcycle that they all have to have a friendly bond with one another or why people with any shared interest would automatically be friendly with one another.

It's no different than if you were driving a car and another driver cut you off and parked in your favorite parking spot.

A motorcycle is just another mode of transportation. It doesn't make a person any more intelligent or more friendly.

Even that motorcyclist who may share your enthusiasm of riding may be that person whom you would never associate with at any other time.

I stay away from many motorcycle groups because I'd probably of ended up dead or in jail because of their juvenille and unsafe behavior and there are always those bad seeds in motorcycle groups that keep me away.

I shouldn't have to tell you that many bikers, both cruisers and sportbikers alike are a bunch of dumb, law-breaking idiots.

If you want to make friends with people, make friends because they are good people, not because they ride a motorcycle.

 [thumbsup]

if 90% of vehicles on the road were motorcycles there would be no bond, but since it's more like 2% there is.  same kind of bond if you see someone driving the exact same car as you. 

he's probably very shy.  if he were just rude he would have at least taken his helmet off. 

..or maybe he just wants to keep the mystery alive. 

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I hope the next time you see him, he runs over to you and gives you a hug while whispering apologies tenderly in your ear.
 :'(

Give me the address of the garage.... hell ..I'll bag all three bikes for good measure.