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Mojo67 wrote:A nod or g'day will do.

In Scotty's case you say "Show us what ya got lardarse" and get ready for a hard chase.

Ok then Noddy where is Big ears! haha yer funny Your still smarting from when you challenged me huh.

Yeah anyway like everyone else has said, I usually nod away and wave at cruisers, don't bother with Hog riders unless they wave first. I don't get sucked into a drag from the lights, but it seems even at idle the 12 just pulls away from them that easy it looks like i am

i always say g'day

in fact i've even had conversations that go for 15k's

Just before the lights turn green hit their kill switch....hilarious.

1. If they're on a Kwaka - I give them a sticker...

2. If they're a chick - I give them my mobile number

3. If thy're neither of the above - I give them Yappa's mobile number...

I've NOD to a few this weekend.
Good gesture I reckon but it seems like I always initiate it.
I'm yet to see a rider that will NOD first to me, not that it really matter.

I was at the front of the lane at a set of lights this morning and a bloke lane split up next to me on an oldish BMW. Gave him a nod, no response. Then when the lights change the bastard took off in front of me! I admit I was taking it easy with the new bike so I didn't get away real quick from the lights but that's bloody rude in my book

gav wrote:if it's one of my mates i'll either rev their throttle or hit their kill switch

Hahahahaha - love that! I'd try it, but I'd have to install some go-go-Gadget arms first....

exmenace wrote:I've NOD to a few this weekend.
Good gesture I reckon but it seems like I always initiate it.
I'm yet to see a rider that will NOD first to me, not that it really matter.

had a bit of a spray about the amout of "non nodders" last week on the radio show. i'll give anyone a nod.

dont forget - you can listen to the show at http://www.riderageradio.com

yea im a chatter..ill just start talking to em...the lights go red & ill keep chatting, then say "cmon, lets play traffic light GP" or sumthin...if its an L or P plater ill give em some tips (like "dont fall off, it hurts") or sumthing else clever...if i kno em ill just ask "hey mate how ya goin where ya off too"..even if i kno all the answers cos i been riding with em all day....
gav mate,remind me not to ride with u!! i did the "kill switch" trick to damian (gix 600) the other day, silly prick didnt kno wot was wrong with his bike & had a freak out...good thing it was in maccas car park & not on the road...lol... shoulda came to Damo & Mareks bday..nearly broke my wrist jumping off a roof (dont ask)...yesum, gav & i have mutual freinds it would seem!!

Pontikat wrote: I tagged a guy on a green 01 ZX6R today at the second set of lights in a row. Then followed him into Whales n had a yarn . If your reading this Matt jump in mate.
Cheers Brett

I always give a nod...It too hard to hear ppl talkin and even harder lip reading someone wif a full face helmit on...but Yeah and i scored a sticker...so am happy .....and is it just me...or i seem to get less and less ppl 'giving the nod' when riding past now days

just a friendly nod.

some people may just snob u off

I try not to wave with my braking hand when pulling up to the lights.

Got my First NOD last night - woopee lolz
- He was on a kwaka also
- If you we are at Brighton Last night near Novotel and gave a Nod to somebody with a yellow/black Helmet on a Candy Blue Kawasaki - That was me! Good ONYA!

I love this topic. It always seems to draw much conversation. Anyway, I always nod or wave other sportbikes. But some recent observations:

1) A wave might look like the universal hand signal for copper (making a circular motion with a finger in the air), which kind of sucks if you have just come down an awesome stretch of road and want your fellow biker to enjoy it too.

2) In traffic, if I am in a flock of cars I will be paying most of my attention to them. Sometimes I catch a glimpse of a biker giving me a nod when its too late. So its not that I am ignoring you, its just that I am trying to save my life.

Otherwise I nod all the time. Saving my best nods for those times that you are 200km out of town enjoying the twisties and you come up to another rider. It is a nod that says more than "hi fellow biker", its more like "Ah, brethren, welcome to the promised land. Go now and may you find all that you seek..." and so on.

I've noticed that its becoming more like a western when it comes to nodding,
most bikers dont draw until they see you start to... then "bang".
Maybe thats just Adelaide, we have to make our own excitment here.