A(n) Hotel Story

When I was a teen I worked as a chambermaid at a hotel, a literal mom and pop place with about 30 rooms. Every year we got Blue Knights as visitors on their way to bike week. The Blue Knights (as I understand it) are cops/ex-cops who ride motorcycles. Every year the hotel owner's wife got livid because the riders cleaned their bikes with the hotel towels during their stay.

I'm staying in a hotel and parked next to a nice Harley. I was walking through the back door and it was politely held open by a gentleman with a hotel room trashcan in his arms. As I walked through the door, I had a flashback to my chambermaid past and wondered if he had water in the trashcan to clean his bike (with the hotel towels). Yep, when I got back to my room I looked out the window - he was cleaning off his bike with water from the trashcan. I couldn't tell if he was using a hotel towel as a rag. I guess things never change, but now I wonder if all motorcycle types do this as a matter of course.