Those two little words...

[Rameses]

^This one always makes me laugh!  My neighbor's kids always stop what they're doing and just stare as I ride by...  Had the opposite happen the other day though, a young kid was walking down the street as I passed and he looked straight forward and put his hands over his ears...classic!

I had that happen one time about a month ago too.

I laughed my ass off.

[jsanford]

I was heading towards Mount Rainier and stopped at a sports bar in North Bend for lunch.

Pulling off my helmet, there was a woman a bit younger than I with her boyfriend leaving.  She wanted to know all about the bike: who made it, what country it came from, etc.  The boyfriend just stood aside, texting on his cell.  She told me, straight-faced, that it was the most beautiful motorcycle she'd ever seen (which kind of made me feel silly--after all, I rode an orange BMW for three years and considered its appearance a security asset.

They drove off--in a pickup with the Harley-Davidson logo in the back window. 

[Craig Thomas]

It happened all the time with the Triumph.







Nothing yet with the Monster. 

[DCXCV]

Got a from a woman passing by in a cab on my way home yesterday. 

There's a little girl in my neighborhood who always clamps her hands on her ears when I pass.  Pretty funny cause the bike is always at or near idle at the time.

[The Bacon Junkie]

Got a from a woman passing by in a cab on my way home yesterday. 

I got the "rock on"  horns from a guy in a blue Maserati Quattroporte on the 405 a couple of weeks ago.

This:     is what was going on inside my helmet for the rest of my commute.

[Evil_Ductator]

9 out of 10 kids I pass yell not "nice bike", but yep you guessed it - "pop a wheelie!!".  every great once in a while i do and know that it made their day and all their friends heard about it for a week 

I get nods and "nice bike" from tourists crossing PCH in Laguna all the time when I'm sitting at the lights, often they start explaining to whoever they're with that it's a ducati, and yadda yadda mostly I just hear the booming pipes and all those bolts in the coffee can strapped to the side.

One day, I had a kid who was probably about 10 tell me he liked my "Monster".  I was shocked and when I pried he said his dad is looking at Ducatis on the internet every night hahaha.

For the most part I don't get that much kick out of compliments on the bike because it's more the guttural feel I get out of riding it that I enjoy, but every now and again when I see a few guys standing staring at it and admiring it then it makes me feel pride that others enjoy it so much.  But of course I can sit and stare at it in my garage for hours   

[semyhr]

In one of the last riding days I was out of work for lunch with my bike and got into a bad traffic jam so I start going between the cars etc and stop by a woman in her car that is too close to drive through. So I stop and see her lookin... so we start a little chat with her guy sitting next to her talking to someone else out of the other window on the other side

she: wow, can I ride it?  [moto]
me: do you know how to ride bikes?
she: no, i mean like ride with you
me: sorry, no, only one helmet with me 
she: can I touch that lever (brakes I guess, she was on the right)
me: sure, but you can try this one (throttle) .. just try turning it
she turns and jumps in the air from her seat from the roooaaaar that it made
she: what is this bike?
me: ducati
she: cool now I will tell my friends that I rode a ducati!!!   
me: can you please now move a little over to the right side so I can pass you
she tries to move a little and then says that I can hit the mirror with my mirror, that it's OK with her

[DCXCV]

So she blipped your throttle and let you smack her mirror and you didn't get her #?

[Roy]

So she blipped your throttle and let you smack her mirror and you didn't get her #?

Wow, that is the funniest sexual innuendo I have ever heard!     

[semyhr]

So she blipped your throttle and let you smack her mirror and you didn't get her #?

    wasn't my type really 

[Max LeanAngle]

Nice post for certain.

The best one for me was when a Ferrari pulled aside me on Pacific Coast Highway for a red light.  I mostly noticed movement and as I turned to scan in that general direction, both guys were leaning towards my bike mouthing, "Nice Bike."

I laughed in my helmet, did my Vanna White hand motion moving from left to right slowly, gracefully, presenting "Ducati" along tank side, made the motion of blowing them a kiss, dropped into first gear and rode off.