A couple of days ago I was riding along pentonville road, coming back from Hackney. Nodded at a fellow biker who rode a blue Triumph ST Sprint but he did not nod back, instead he just looked down on me as if saying “you ain’t nobody”…then a Hornet rider came along while waiting at traffic lights, he nodded and the Triumph guy nodded back…now, this makes me think…do I not deserve a nod back coz I am a female or coz I am wearing the company HiViz and rode a company CBF600?:w00t:
I get that sometimes - so maybe a female thing - I do find that not many commuters nod back - or am I the only one that nods while commuting to work?
ah i find my self doing it to every bugger no matter wot there are riding and don’t even no i am doing it half the time pmfsl:D
I nod whether I am commuting, on a trip or working but don’t get much back…:ermm: maybe I should only do it when I am riding outside London and long distance:w00t:
but that guy really made my blood boil…
the way he looked at me made me feel so small of embarassment…as if I had done summink to upset him or wot…:w00t:
Hope you whipped his ass at the lights 
Go anywhere North of London annd its sooo different. I learnt to ride in Nottingham and Middlesborough - come back down here a few yrs later - as if all miserable sods… esp at rush hr… but then again - i consider smany of them not ‘bikers’ as such as many only doing it for wease as opposed to enjoyment / interest aand so dont buy in to the whole comeradarie thing…
Theres always one. Ignore it and enjoy the rest of your ride. Youre better than letting it get to you. I find theres a lot less nodding going on while commuting. Recon everyones just too preoccupied with trying to stay alive and get to work or home in one piece.
Don’t worry about it. A bloke I know who’s part of an IAM group out in Essex has said how sad it is that it’s not as common in London these days. I nod to all and sundry! If they don’t nod back I just think “ignorant git”.
but that guy really made my blood boil…
the way he looked at me made me feel so small of embarassment…as if I had done summink to upset him or wot…
I think it’s just a case of there being ignorant tossers everywhere. If you’d given me a nod, I’d have returned it. That said, I’d find a nod uncommon in London but much more often seen outside the city.
You keep noddin cheekychick. I do, and if they don’t nod back then I say ‘arse’ to em! If I see you I will nod my head off to you:D not literally…be a bit silly, that:hehe:
oh yeah I showed him my numberplate and my hi-viz backprint:P but then i turned right, he was going straight…
Oh and there is another guy I sumtimes meet on the A20 (Lewisham Way) around 7am, rides a zzr1400, my dream bike:D when I caught up with him for the first time, a while ago, I wanted to ask him about the bike as I was (still AM) interested in buying one. When we stopped at the lights and I looked at him to give him a nod, he turned his head to look at me, then looked away. Bastid…big headed bastid…GRRRRRR I hate people like that! They act as if they have swallowed the wisdom of the world just coz they ride a big powerful bike:angry:
Maybe they’re shy, or only use their bikes for commuting?
I only nod outside of the M25 or if there’s someone I recognise.
As LB’rs, we could start our own ‘nod’?
Give the normal nod of the head and at the same time move the right elbow out (funky chicken style). Ok it looks like you’re having a small fit but hey, if it identifys LB’rs to each other…
I’m now getting images of the ‘Monty Python Masson’s sketch’ on two wheels as 2 LB’rs pass each other 
the nod or not too nod debate reappears
seems when people are rushing about around town they are in commute zone and rarely seem to nod i must admit to getting more and more peeved at not having my nodded return that i rarely bother to nod myself now if in London.
At the weekends though or back out in kent then i’m more like the head nodding loon
so we would be having a party on the bike thats normal for me when i got the mp3 player on;)
Bloody ell, If I nodded to every bike I met I’d look like I had some sor of torrets thing going on. It’s a London thing, no noding in the town but you get more and more the further you get away from central London.
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Don’t think it’s anything to do with being female.
Practically all the female riders I know look just like the blokes… [in leathers & lid]
When I started biking 30 yrs ago, just about all bikers flashed lights at each other (and there were more about then) but I don’t see that now, presumably because flashes are needed to warn of plods ahead.
I nod just about all bikes and get a response from about half. I carry on as I say to myself my being friendly is a good thing, although I draw the line at scooters and Harley Davidson, middle-aged, jeans, black jacket, black leather boots, sunglasses & smug look bikers (was amazed last week, for first time in years I saw an HD with dirty chrome…).
Ian
I don’t usually nod or raise a hand in cities unless as a “thank you” for something…no need for it and most people are too busy trying not to get knocked off to be waving…Open roads are different are there are less nods needed so easier to do…
Yeah, Indian style wobbly head nod.
Don’t nod on the commute until I get out of town.