Do you wave at other MX5s?

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:05 pm

Nah, don't own one.

rpost77 · Postby **rpost77** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:14 pm

I always keep an eye out for other MX5s when I'm out in mine (DD so out a lot).

My experience is that there is less acknowledgement than there used to be (been driving mine for 21 years so a reasonable sample size).

Latest observations:-

40 to 60 percent of NA drivers will wave, wink (lights) or nod.

30 to 50 percent of NB drivers will wave or nod.

0 percent of NC drivers will respond - in fact most I have waved at will either deliberately ignore or look at you like an alien. I've stopped waving to NC drivers - different breed I think.

I winked at an NB yesterday on Frederick St. in Croydon.

This morning on Frederick St. I was waiting in traffic and strangely enough a guy in a Ford something on the other side looked at my car and nodded vigorously with a grin and a thumbs up - must have been a fellow MX driver in his company car methinks!

kalt · Postby **kalt** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:51 pm

rpost77 wrote:My experience is that there is less acknowledgement than there used to be (been driving mine for 21 years so a reasonable sample size).

WOW!

Would've been good if you had taken a photo of yourself in the roadster every day, then compile it into a youtube video showing how you and the roadster age over time. Or stay young if the case may be.

I received thumbs up from NB's so far which I return back wholeheartedly.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:28 pm

Do you wave at other MX5s?

Yes.

The return rate isn't that much worse than what I get from other riders when on my bike.

Rob · Postby **Rob** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:11 pm

When I owned the NA, I did the fuse change that allowed me to pop the lights up and down quickly with a single pull on the stalk.

I used to do it a lot back then. Sometimes I did wonder to myself if other MX5's "got" what I was doing, or whether they thought I was suggesting there were cops up ahead