nodding

[dransy]

when other bikers nod at u does any1 ever think *lets both stop and have a chat*
if that makes sense?
lol
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[White Noise]

No,
i just think another biker on a ride, doing what we both love to do
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[nick.h]

Sometimes, although i see it more of a sign of respect.

Nick
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[Suzuki]

On my way back from the BMF in the pissing rain today, pulled up at some lights next to another bike.

I open my visor, give him a nod and say "Lovely day for it".

He replies "Yep, glorious." and rides off.

I was pissing myself.
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[lilredmachine]

Similar thing the other day. Two ped riders, me on the lil Honda and another on some sort of scooter type thingy at the traffic lights, pissing it down with rain, soaked to buggery, looked across, nodded and smiled and he smiled and nodded back (you could tell from his eyes). I like little moments like this, you get the feeling that the cagers in their boxes with the heater turned up are missing something... Like pneaumonia
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[dransy]

yeah it pissed it down today on a dual carrage way and my crotch got absaloutly soaked the rain drop where like golf balls lol
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[Gazdaman]

The only time I get to chat to similar minded bikers is when they're helping scrape me off the road...

A nod hasn't turned into a chat yet, I did talk to a fine looking female on an NC30 at the lights once... it'd be rude not to!

Gaz

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[Liverpoolrobb...]

there bell ends for nodding round here hardly any 1 nods and ill nod to every bugger that passes me!

[BikerBen]

I'm a sucker for nodding. Nod at everything, even the pizza guys (Though they never nod back)

This is what I find

People that nod : People in leathers, people with modded bikes, people who are cool and other randomers.

People that don't nod : Long bearded 'Free Spirits', Half helmet wearing vespa riding morons and Ped bois (It seems if you nod at them they think you are trying to start a fight and nearly crash into the car ahead of them whilst glaring at you until their neck has reached its maximum turning angle.)

A weird thing is, since I got my ZXR and am riding in my green leathers and green helmet, a lot more people nod me first, whereas before it was me initiating the nods. I quite like it. If they knew it was a long haired 18 year old teenager under the lid I wonder if they would do the same
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[Gazdaman]

Ped boys havn't perfected the nod yet.

Most of them just kinda look at you and nod. The nervous sideways twitch nod hasn't yet evolved for them!

When it's sunny everyone nods!

Gaz

[Suzuki]

ok then - what's your nod style?

I tend to go for a twisting nod, kind of dropping my head and twisting it to one side. Feels like that's more noticable than just a straight nod.
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[White Noise]

i go for a side nod, i find i can still see more of the road when i do it than when i nod forward
WN
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[Aikman666]

I think bikers get a bit confused when i nod at them walking along the roadside.... ah well, just getting in the practice before i get my bike
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[Craggles]

No a nod hasn't turned into a chat...

I've never pulled up next to someone at the lights before, but will always pass an "alright mate" or other similar greeting to anyone on a bike at a petrol station, or when I'm parking up near other bikes.

I enjoyed the community feel today - passed two groups of riders coming toward Romsey (I was going toward Stockbridge). 2/3 of them nodded to me, and about half either gave me a thumbs down or a flashy hand signal. Turned the next corner (at the correct speed, cheers to the warning!) and was faced with a camera van.

Craig
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[RascalsCustar...]

wierd actually...don't get many nods in west london unless it's a modded bike or the riders wearing a tinted visor. On country roads however it's a different story.

I'm like white noise. A quick sideways movement towards the rider...almost like when you stretch your neck muscles...or when you're in the pub and a cheeky little female walks in, it's like "ere' lads, 'ave a look at that" (nodding your head in the direction of her)

[Craggles]

[ApriliaRs125]

i like it when your on your own and you ride past a group of 5 riders and they all nod so to be nice you nod to all of em ,

you end up looking like your listening to Rap music


wen theres 20 your listening to happy hardcore

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[ali-b]

I find the nodding deteriorates the further you get into London...on my journey to work in the morning, I usually see the same guy going in the opposite direction on the local road and we both nod...if I see any more bikers on local roads we both tend to nod...getting on the motorway, riders will nod if you move out of the way (assuming you're going slower), I'll nod if someone lets me pass...upon reaching junction 4, however, everyone stops nodding, even after the motorway and onto local roads into central London...the number of nods I've had in central London can be counted on the fingers of one hand, a hand that has had an accident with a stapler and currently has only 2 fingers!...

Weekend nodders are more prevalent, but the guy that usually only goes out on Sunday afternoon if the weather is good is usually fully gripped onto the handlebars and is so intent on not crashing in his own lane (even though they're tailgating the car in front), the fact that another biker is going in the opposite direction never crosses his mind

When I go out with a mate, I'm usually behind him as he's just recently passed, and gets a bit 'funny' with cars that drive up his backside 'coz he's on a bike', and I find that bikers going the opposite way will nod me more often than him.

I'm a flick head to side, trying to touch my shoulder with my ear nodder...I find it easier to see ahead, and its easier for the guy going the other way to see you've nodded rather than just gone over a bump in the road...

Alex.

[KevTM]

well i'll nod to anyone, it'd be ignorant not to..

anyway a nod hasn't turned intop a convo yet, although last year i did have a conversation with a bus driver when i was on my NS125.. musta lasted about 4-5mins in slow moving traffic.. can't remember what we were talknig about, nevertheless, it was a bike related convo.

[danclarkie]

The good thing i think about the nod is, NOTHING matters if im riding along a route say to work and i see a biker and nod to him and he nods back. i know if i see him again i can nod and he will nod back, yet we know nothing about each other. he could be a rapist a burglar or worse, a traffic copper. (joking). But nothing matters about who you are what you do or even really what you ride. It could be the guy you hated all through school or anything Nodding is one of the best parts of biking IMO, but then again i ride a 125
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[thuganomics16]

i hate it when i see a few bikes coming towards me and i give them a nod, and they dont nod back. I sit there and think you ignorant sods!

Then i realise why they were looking at me funny....doh im in the car!

[MikeyC]

Its nnoying when your riding along and a convoy of 4 or 5 bikes are coming towards you, the 1st rider will nod, I nod back, then the others follow suit, I feel like a nodding dog!!

On many occasions I've stopped at lights and struck up a small conversation. If it's pissing down, the usual comments of "nice day for it" occur, but more often than not, I get bikers asking what size my Gixxer is... "is it a 6?".

Frustratingly, 99% or Harley riders and generally anyone NOT on a sports bike, do not nod back when I nod them... I feel like a loser!

[cbrbiker]

I often swap a few words at the lights, only the conversation mostly encompasses me going "Eh? Say that a bit louder, I've got me earplugs in!"

The other week I was sitting at some roundabout lights chatting to a chap on an R1 who was complimenting my paint job. Lights changed, we pulled off, white van man jumped his lights, we braked quite a lot, next set of lights was spent cussing him, then we both exited the roundabout on to a dual carriageway (I went first) and the next thing I know, he's passing between me and a car on his back wheel! He dropped the front for another car, then lifted it again for another half mile down the road!!
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