Yeah well done Hitch......... I got several nods the other day from this fella...... but turns out he had epilepsy. But I certainly agree, it's nice to give and recieve knowing your not alone out there. Keep it up.
Hardcore Biker
Yeah well done Hitch......... I got several nods the other day from this fella...... but turns out he had epilepsy. But I certainly agree, it's nice to give and recieve knowing your not alone out there. Keep it up.
L-Plate Rider
I drive an older alfa romeo (hopefully a bike soon too, got my scratchy on monday!) and there is a very similar "alfa wave" between drivers.. Real sense of community there too.
Cant wait for my first bike wave though!
Forum whore
lol nice thread Hitch, many a good laugh
I too got my first nod on my way home from picking my new bike up in Auckland on Wednesday, exact same reaction as you (grinning ear to ear). All the way home bikers waving or nodding
One difference I have noticed however is around town it doesn't seem to happen as much as on the highway. Either way it is nice to acknowledge each other, after all....
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Scooter boy
Cool - Hitch bought a bigt smile to my face just reading your account of it. WTG
Scattering the morning dew
Congrats on receiving your first nod.
Also remember to never, ever, complain on KiwiBiker if you don't receive nods or waves. You will be crucified (and rightly so!).
Scooter boy
what no wave....gonna moan to the wave police!!...
...lol...
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The Sharif don't like it!
I love getting a nod, brightens up my normally dull days
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I guess Kiwibiker must be doing its thing and "paying it forward". Seems most of us do the nod/wave/I'm a teapot gestureSo it must be rubbing off on the wider biking community! I do it whenever, where-ever I can - anything on two wheels usually (yes, even the pushbikers...I know what it's like to be one of them!)
Just makes my day!And oh yeah, good karma and all that for the Asphalt Angel is sitting pillion and watching!
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How many snob scooter riders then? Never once have they nodded at me... but they are not 'real' bike ridershehehe
Well done
The Posties that do that day after day deserve a medal. There's a little bike with a postal dude on it out our way now and I'll nod to him every time. Respect where it's due.
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Ahh the nod..
I got my first wave from a Harley rider yesterday, and he even used all his fingers
I've also had a nod from a bike cop.
It's the scooter riders that never wave or nod, even though I wave at them. (I also ride a scooter from time to time)
parting of the sensory
But it's not coool when that happens.Are you sure it wasn't a sneeze?.....bikers do that too.....
Invariably, it goes like this for me.
"Ooh - another biker! Kewl!"
....nothing....
WELL FUCK YOU THEN!!
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
The Sharif don't like it!
yea, scooter riders never seem to wave. espcially the ones on the 50cc's. I guess they're ashamed lol.
-Indy
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El tardo tardo....
woudnt you be? "what do you ride oh you know VFR or whatever...how about you? Vespa
parting of the sensory
That's not it.
The scooterists on here, they get it. But your average scooterist is like, "Um... yeah... I ride a scooter coz it's cheap/I can't handle a car/Bikes are dangerous". For them a scooter is a glorified bicycle.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
El tardo tardo....
I think scooters are more dangerous than bikes to be honest, most of them are so low that car cant see them and we all know cars have a hard enough time seeing bikes that are the same level as thier wing mirrors
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