Borroks. If you ride down the road towards wherevere and you are proud to be on your bike, be it a 35 year old gamma 50 a 2008 hyobolloks or anything inbetween and you pass another rider and you wait and you wait and you wait and you pass each other and then you both go off fealing rightously aggreived because the other ‘pr*tt’ didnt bother nodding! I dont care if you greet me or not. I dont care if you ride a 50 or an 1800. I will nod, I will greet just because I can. And if you are stood on the side of the road I will slow down and stop just in case. More than likely I wont be able to do anything but I can share a cigerette. My day is filled with crap and polotics and being sworn/spat at by useless munters (public) so when I climb onto my bike that is my free time my joy even through the middle of london. If you see my lil black cbr then wave or dont I dont care just dont fall off in suprise when I wave.
I always nod but most of the time in london i dont look at em, i see a bike coming look back at the road and nod as he passes…lol
im like one of those nodding dogs you see in cars…
i dont know about thums up though…what are you, the fonze…lol
the only time i put a thumb up was when a biker was down on the westway about a month ago. police and abulance were there and the road was closed. . i was the first to be let through, as i went passed i saw him sitting up and slowed down, i beeped and he looked up so i gave him a thumps up, poor guy really struggled but he managed one back…
Generally when I’m commuting in in the morning I can’t be bothered to nod, as am usually late, usually I haven’t woken up, usually am in a hurry and it’s usually raining. However in the evening when i’ve woken up and at the weekend when i do my ride outs from Box etc I’ll nod.
However, these nods can sometimes turn into long conversations at the traffic lights. One bloke suggested I join him and his pillion for a spliff back at his flat, and one guy suggested we stop at the Hand in Glove for a pint, so sometimes when you nod at random blokes they think you’re up for it and are out on the pull. So it can be a little confusing.
I had a great chat with a lady biker up in central London recently about the weather at the lights and also met a very nice chap who discussed my brake light, so the question is, when to nod, when to pull up the visor and have a five hour chat and when to take someone up on the offer of a pint. All interesting dilemmas.
Quite often if I’m nodded at in central London I’m so preoccupied with other things (all those dials and flashing light and stuff) it catches me off guard. I think was that really a nod at me, then by the time I’ve realised it was a nod I’ve missed the chance to nod back. Then I’m racked with guilt, but am seeing a therapist now for it,
Couriers on the same circuit will nod to each other, normally followed by abuse because you have more jobs on than them. Or, even better, they ride along side each other for a chat as you’re going along.
i once was on the lanes a few miles from finchingfeild, when some fella on a 525 was heading towards me so i waved to him. next thing i knew the weirdo turned around & started stalking me:w00t::Dbut i have noticed that harley riders never nod
Yeah, on 2nd thoughts nodding might prove to be a bad idea - it attracts stalkers, wierdoes, lunatics and chancers on the pull. I think we should start a new greeting of giving the finger instead and see how we all get on ;)
I tended to nod all the time, but got tired off not being acknowledged, I do find myself nodding less in London because I am concentrating on staying alive with all the pillocks on the road but I still do it.
I have had nods of HD & BMW riders which is rather surprising given their ‘bad press’.
As for helping fellow bikers in the last six weeks I have done two punctures and a fuel recovery.
If i am aknowledged im so shocked i forget to respond 
