Originally Posted by bikerz

I''ll nod or wave to anyone on any sort of bike, if the miserable ****ers don't want to wave/nod back thats thier problem. Doesn't hurt to be polite or friendly!

Originally Posted by BORN2BMILD

i find the most nod free lot are the hardly worthitson riders

Originally Posted by harleyrider

I'll let that pass since I guess you don't know any better.

Originally Posted by Alexlebrit

Interesting, here in Brittany no-one waves. At low speeds in town it's the nod, and on the open road it's the waggly foot. I like though how the waggly foot also appears if you're in a car and you pull over to let a biker past on the RNs (the biker waggles his foot, not me out of the car window).

Originally Posted by henryuk

I always wave, nod or wave with both hands (look mum, no hands!). I do this to anything with 2 wheels. Most people round here nod, you must just be too darn quick for them to respond in time!

I have noticed that if I nod or wave at bikers on my pizza bike a lot of them don't respond (presumably out of arrogance), same as on my bike a lot of kids on scooters dont respond (presumably because they don't know how to be polite). I think that anyone that has been properly bitten by the bug will wave because they are stoked to see other people on bikes - has always been that way for me.

Getting blanked 'cos I'm on a 50cc is very annoying - they might not have any power but on the tight twisting circuits of Sheffield they are faster than any larger bike - example - during a four hour shift three days ago (great conditions) I managed to scrape the centrestand about 10 times. If you rode a motorbike like that in town you would get arrested in a flash, (but as the mopeds are restricted to 30mph the cops can't get a conviction for much so they just give me 'warnings'.....). If you have to ride in a city you can't beat them for thrills and spills, so next time you see a pizza bike remember that the 'L-Plate' is on the bike not the rider and give them a nod!


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The same generalised judgment concept applies to me in that I should remember that a lot of Pizza hut riders have very little or no experience and if you saw one diving into a corner hard then you could be forgiven for thinking that it was a near crash. As the police forgive me then I forgive those that have complained against me.

Originally Posted by wuming

I've started doing the nod automatically to bikers now, even when I am back in the car; get some odd looks. I came very close to following a bike filtering through traffic the other day, caught myself just in time as I remembered I was in the car, not on the bike. Could have been ugly.

Originally Posted by henryuk

I'm sure it doesn't apply to you (having seen some evidence of your misdeeds!), but I am afraid that a lot of bikers that don't seem to fully 'get it' like to buy harleys(new ultraglide type things). There is undoubtedly an element of form over function to them and generally they don't handle or perform as well as they should for the price tag they carry new (I've had a fair few parts chromed and it doesn't cost much more than paint or powder coat). That said if I had the money I'd buy one purely for the noise they make! Maybe if harley had branded Buell as harleys then people wouldn't make the same instant judgement on the name....