So the obligatory nodding thread so loved on every bike forum.

Scooters of the large capacity type that every passing biker knows you must hold a full licence = no nods.

Large capacity motorcycle that is blck and scary and roars like a wounded lion = nods.

It aint what ya got it's what ya do with it and ill cream most on a 250 burgman or at least give them a run for their money.  My scooter experiences really showed me the toss side of biking being that the sunday biker brigade are disappearing up their own arriss and conspicuous by their absence during heavy rain yet they now consider me their mate?  ill never forget the mirror incident.  i have not changed though;- ill nod at everyone and stop for anyone and long may it be so. :buttrock:

I still maintain i will give almost everyone the nod if your in a helmet.
Although after sundays run it would seem the buggers on the big flash R1,s fireblades etc, in their colour coordinated leathers deem me unworthy on my little 250 well I say "FECK EM.."

Just as a matter of interest does anyone happen to know how the nodding thing got started?

You know, when I was out on DP cruiser, I don't think I got one nod.  :Oo: Maybe they were capivated by the sight of me on the cruiser looking like a sex god to all who glimpsed my presence.  :cool: (There were no fecking tassles)

No sure if DP or Mally got any nods either though.

They might not have nodded but you can be sure they checked thier mirrors to see if there was a wide load sticker on yer arris  :bum:  :D

If my memmory serves me well??? I Think back to my earlier days of biking when saftey was comming to the front.

Nodding was seen as a more sensible thing to do rather than riding one handed and not being fully in control of the machine and also it was seen as a motorcycleists way of sticking to gether as break downs were quite common and help was always at hand..

The A.A.? service when on bikes were all told to salute a fellow member when passing on the highway and then this to was seen as a dangerouse act so that to was banned as the service went over to the vans ..

yep i got one nod(it was a sort of look at the f*t fecker on the cruiser behind you nod)
Ima m8 i wouldnt nod at you either, just in case you attempted to nod back & yer head fell off-250 vibes m8 not good

So is that 250 vibes=engine gonna drop it's guts all over the road?
Or are you still trying to talk me into the fake diamond?
I'm convinced ya know.

Aargh yes the nod thing

i even get the odd nod or wave when im in my van but then it is very well known down here ( the van that is ) & it does have THE BIKERS DJ  on the front & back.

On the bike i get a few nods & when i was last out on a trike everyone from scooter riders to harley riders nodded or waved even got the odd wave from lorry drivers too