what a weapon

Bandit riders.... what can ya say....

Got this via Farcebook today :

 

 

 

It's a Hardly so those rules do not apply.  

Got this via Farcebook today :

 

It's not like a Hardly Ableson owner has any other use for a bucket.

With regard to acknowledgement or waving,been a biker over 50 years without a break so seen all the changes.

My hobby is MotoGP and until recently traveled Europe to watch the racing,age,injury has lessened my enthusiasm for camping.

Anyway,I love the French acknowledgement by when the fast guy is in your mirror and about to pass just drop your left leg off the peg.

When he passes he will do the same,doesn't matter what you are riding.No need to remove any hand from the bars.

When you see riders approaching a simple casual lift of the left hand a reverse V sign suffices.Kinda cool.

Doesn't matter what I have been riding,never had a Harley rider acknowledge though,even when riding a Goldwing haha.

With regard to acknowledgement or waving,been a biker over 50 years without a break so seen all the changes.

My hobby is MotoGP and until recently traveled Europe to watch the racing,age,injury has lessened my enthusiasm for camping.

Anyway,I love the French acknowledgement by when the fast guy is in your mirror and about to pass just drop your left leg off the peg.

When he passes he will do the same,doesn't matter what you are riding.No need to remove any hand from the bars.

When you see riders approaching a simple casual lift of the left hand a reverse V sign suffices.Kinda cool.

Doesn't matter what I have been riding,never had a Harley rider acknowledge though,even when riding a Goldwing haha.

I love riding in France.

Only just come across this thread for some strange reason I must have missed it.  Living on Louth I often pass Willingham Wood when out on the bike and avoid it like the plague for the very reasons you say!  Well that and paying over a quid for a brew in a styrophone mug isn't for me.

 

Lincolnshire has some excellent roads for bikes and as you say the road between Market Rasen and Wragby and then on to Bardney being like a mini TT course.  Unfortunately though Lincolnshire also has more than it's fair share of serious injuries and fatalities with bikers which then leads people to say the roads/bikes or both are dangerous when they are nothing of the sort.  The only thing that is dangerous is some of the riders who to quote Casey Stoner when he was talking to Rossi after Laguna Seca "Your ambition outweighs your talent"!

 

Bike snobbery is one of my pet hates and I always nod to bikes on the road but there are far less acknowledgements than there used to be.  I am on a facebook group for the RATS in Lincs and some on there put up these pictures with something to the effect that if you are a biker you are a good bloke. Bo11ocks!  Bikers are like any other group in society in that there is good, bad and in between.  As an example there used to be a member on here who rode bikes (didn't like being called a biker) and everything he did was better than you and anything anyone else said was wrong and then he would go on to tell you why you were wrong in great detail.

 

So we are not all angels and we are not all idiots but when I am out I like to have the common decency to nod at others and spread a bit of camaraderie.