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Leicestershire nodder
I am an avid nodder, everyone gets a nod as far as im concerned, who cares whats someones riding, I nod at coppers too and they normally nod back.
I think there are a lot of fashion bikers out there with little or no idea of what biking is all about.
Are we not one big community were you helping someone out this time may well mean you are not stranded next time.
If I am in the car I still check people are ok if they give the thumbs up I carry on but if not I stop.
It can sometimes mean that a biker can stay with there pride and joy and I will go off and get some fuel for them.
Its frustrating when bikers dont nod back but then leave them to it perhaps we should have a hubbers signal, any ideas ?
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i find the most nod free lot are the hardly worthitson riders 
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28 Jun 2008
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You are my hero!
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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.
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Hey Henry!
I LOVED reading this --- you are, by unanimous decision, the XT Girl's "Hero of the Month"!!
PLEASE, PLEASE get yourself a copy of Valentino Rossi's (auto?)BIOGRAPHY - because its HILARIOUS --- and you will see, that you are OBVIOUSLY well on your way to becoming a GP WORLD CHAMPION MOTORCYCLE GOD LEGEND with the training you're getting right now.
Vali famously said that his ALL TIME BIKING heroes, were the pizza delivery guys, who ride like demons on cobbled streets, in the middle of winter, at night, and handle those bikes, better than he could. (he said!)
Rossi spent ALL OF HIS YOUTH hooliganing (a technical term) around on scooters.
SO -- we DEFINITELY do not diss anyone on a scooter/small bike around here...
HOWEVER - I DO BELIEVE that the young guys just don't KNOW the custom... trust me, I try every now and again to nod - and all I get is WIDE EYED CONFUSION... 
MAYBE - WE CAN START A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN:
NOD AT A 50!!!
IF WE ALL DO IT - SURELY WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!!!!
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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).
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Here ( deux sevres) the wave is left arm out, elbow bent like a half concealed left turn signal.. done when two rider approach each other head one. The right foot 'wave' is a 'thank you for letting me pass' signal and is given to bike or cars or anything else.
a waving down when meeting head on means police ahead ( sometimes accompanied with flashing lights. Cars of course will give teh flashing lights only.
What you will notice ( or at least I have) is there is no confrontation between bikes and other traffic unlike in teh UK.
Generally small bikes seem exempt from all of this.
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It is a strange concept the bikers nod, I have been doing it since 1980 when I was riding my Honda SS50 and still do it now on my Morini special or Yamaha Tmax. As has already been commented on there are some strange situations where what you are riding will get different responses. I find in the main classic british bike riders do not nod or wave, sports bike riders tend not to unless they mistake my tmax headlights for an R6!, custom bikers particularly choppers and most harley riders nod, strangely people riding in shorts and t-shirts never respond??. I nod everyone regardless and have stopped caring if I get a response or not as there can be many reasons.
ps XTGIRL hope you got back from the hubb meet at ripley, let me know what was up with the Tenere. We got back ok apart from my sons Serow suffering a puncture.
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Sorry mate, I didn't see you......
Got to admit I'm sometimes guilty of not nodding, but only on motorways when I'm overtaking, and concentrating more on what the dithering, flat capped, Volvo/Qualcast driving idiot in front of me is doing, than on the biker on the other carriageway.
I've found Cruiser riders to be quite frequent nodders, as are Sportsbike riders. But Harley riders? I might as well be invisible.........
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-If I'm out for a short joyride I will wave to most.
-If I am travelling I will only wave to similar bikes as my airhead or KLR, though may only nod as waving gets annoying after the first few hundred miles.
-Don't care if it's a 50cc, or 1600cc I'll acknowledge.
My only exception to the rule is;
-If they have an ADV sticker, or look to be an ADVrider with the perfect r1200gs/Ktm990 and new gear I will look away without any acknowledgement.
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Well I saw you but that IKEA bag hanging over the handlebar made me hang a quick right.
My pillion is my girlfriend, Jannie. If she had seen that bag she would have made me pull over and she would have discussed the entire IKEA catalogue with you.
If they ever release a V8 bike called the IKEA, I know for sure I can have one. In fact she would force me to have one.
If you were a regular biker without the bag, I would have waved, I always do.
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If they ever release a V8 bike called the IKEA, I know for sure I can have one. In fact she would force me to have one.
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That idea deserves a thread all to itself. Will you have to pick out the bike then walk up and down aisles and aisles in the showroom that sell cars and trucks and lawnmowers and some sort of snack food? Will you have to load a box the size of the bike, but only containing 99% of the parts in alphabetically sorted bubble packs into your car, take it home and build it yourself?
At least once you've got it up and running the tool kit of one odd sized Allen key and the heal off someones oldest pair of stilettoes will be light!
Andy
(who once caused a crash by waving to the Pizza delivery kid while riding an outfit!)
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