I was riding home on Friday and met another V-max on the Holloway Road
It was a nice evening and there was little traffic so came alongside and revved up a bit and pulled a wheelie (if you can call it that as the wheel only just left the tarmac) and gave the guy the nod.
Now you don’t see many V-Max’s these days so i thought he would be excited to see a fellow rider.
He slowed down to almost a standstill and when we got to the next lights would not pull up next to me.
I gave him a little wave and thought he would acknowledge me
OH NO
Refused to make eye contact and did not move off the lights until i had gone.
Sparkling new V-Max with a middle aged Muppet on it
What a waste
Felt like saying "Stick to the car in future unless you want to enter into the spirit of biking.
Am i being oversensitive or was this guy a twat?
OX
He sounds like a twat to me!!
Maybe it was a new bike to him and he didn’t have the confidence to play. Does not sound like a normal biker though as he didn’t even have the decency to acknowledge you.
sounds like a borring F*#T to me Mate
Interesting take on this!
Let’s see if i bump into him again and see what he does next time.
He did look like he had seen a ghost but i was wearing my blacked out visor so may have looked pretty mean on the face of it.
Little did he know i was a sheep in wolves clothing
Did lift my visor but i think the damage had been done
Dunno, I mess around with lil wheelies, locking up the back etc… but alot of bikers don’t even bother acknowledging me at the next set of lights… I have given up trying to make contact now, nodding is also optional…
oh well, welcome to london 
Maybe we need some sort of Masonic greeting we all agree upon so we can recognise other LBer’s.
Nothing too complicated as it would make an interested Insurance claim
" I was just saying hello to another biker when out of nowhere…
I had a guy on a Gixer Thou come up on a mate and I out on a ride yesterday. As soon as I seen him I want to play 
It’s fair enough in the bleak mid winter but as soon as the sun comes out all you want to do is play.
If i could i would ride around all day just looking for a little burn
Rubbish, guys…I either get laughed at in a very amusing way, and even had the comment, ‘A babe on a blade…I’ve seen everything now’, or a marriage proposal (from a VERY friendly courier). The reactions to riding are hilarious when they notice I am a girl 
! Plenty of friendly bikers out there…I can manage a nod most days, but waving is a bit beyond me at times, as I might fall off!
Nodding? yes
Lifting 4 fingers off the brake leaver? - occasionally
Waving? - Only if you belong to the BACMCC*
- Born Again Christian Motorcycle Club
Some bikers just don’t like ‘bad behaviour’, they think it goes against the biking world and makes us all seem like hooligans, rather than fun-lovers. I’ve seen this a lot. Not everybody thinks the same! I respect that, but it is kinda frustrating when someone doesn’t acknowledge you.
I sometimes end up in this guys shoes as well, i.e. some vauxhall-chav driver or rider will make a show of wanting to race me. Most times they know nothing of my bike in stock form, let alone with the tuning it has. Most times I let them go, I don’t know who they are or how they drive/ride, they might cause an accident or get jealous and want to knock me off. I’ve had a bad experience before with this, a driver who got beat then started following me and drove dangerously, made me feel uneasy, I didn’t want to have to use the performance of my bike to get away, I might get in trouble, or injured.
So, 50/50 really, it’s nice to have a little ding-dong with someone, but as long as you’re both on the same level, which is very hard to tell a lot of the time.
Those little ding dongs are what make commuting through the big smoke bearable, because, in an ideal world we’d be on a loverly open, undulating, perfectly tarmaced country road or track.
On my mamoth tour up to Cumbria at christmas, a guy coming in the oposite direction did a full on wave at me, unfortunately I was concentrating so hard on not falling off I couldn’t return the gesture. You don’t get that from everyone in London, I think a nod and a bit of a ding dong is enough.
Having said that, after a long day at work when all you can think about is getting home and relaxing you sometimes for get these niceties.
Jolyon
That’s exactly what I thought! Great minds and all that… Or perhaps just a female take on the situation.
I think the London traffic makes alot of bikers very wary so most riders do not concentrate on anything else apart from whats happening in front of them and tend to concentrate alot thus not noticing anything else apart from possible hazards.
Or, theyre just miserable idiots
I always nod and i give the occasional hands up, I moved down here from Blackpool about 18 months ago and found it hard to comprehend that people just dont nod as much down here, kinda get used to it though.
Must admit though if someone rode up alongside me pulled a wheeelie, I would prolly just roll my eyes and let them got on with it. No offence to anyone but I like to ride my own ride and have never been interested in “playing” with other bikes on the road. If I wanted to do that I’d get on a track.
Normal rule I go by is anywhere inside the m25 is no nod land. Outside of it is usualy ok.
The chap or chapess was prolly scared.
You can’t nod at every bike in London, I’d be like the Churchill dog. Either that or people would think I’m a headbanger…
Yup, I’m with the “not inside the M25” gang… unless it’s a Monster of course
Don’t get any nods when on the scoot though so nod from the duke to scoots when oot and aboot.