Police Warning

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

Personally i pat my helmet.

Too much information

Originally Posted by tigersaw

Too much information

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by TSM

for oncomming vechs a flash of the headlight usualy, if its for peeps behind incase they did not see them its patting on the top of the helmet, of course this can also apply to peeps comming towards you for when you have passed the plod

Patting the top of your helmet as well as a flash of the lights to oncomers (what I do also) are pretty much universal signs among riders I've met from around the globe.

Round these parts thumbs down means a bike is down!
Or from someone at a crash scene...a rider was injured (severely or worse).
Don't want to see a biker giving thumbs down 'round here!!!

Originally Posted by tigersaw

Too much information

hahah .... everyone i know or dont know taps there "MOTORCYCLE helmet"

Warn others of the where abouts of plod, not me sir no , i do occasionally ride along doing my world famous jim davidson impersination, hand above my lid open & closing my hand in a nic nic kind of way, just to pass the time while im riding along within the speed limit....


Jas..

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

After being flashed that many times you had to rely on a sixth sense...What about the other 5?

Personally i pat my helmet.

Well I couldn't smell them, touch them, see them, hear them, or taste them so I suppose it was a 6th sense!

+1 to the out stretched arm doing the slow down thingy, trouble is i get too excited and look like a 1 winged albatros attempting flight

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Ruffy

Generally, I use a variant on the old "slow down" hand signal, up and down at the side but often with my left hand.

However, I feel morally obliged to point out that if you ride in such a way as to need to rely in these sorts of warnings to stay out of trouble, then perhaps you ought to think about changing your riding!!! That's fair, isn't it Officer?

That's the point of advanced training isn't it? Improve the observations and all that

How are they going to do someone for making a hand signal? As surely to "pervert the course of justice" they would also have to prove the other guy was speeding before you made the signal.

I pat the top of my lid.

I do the "wave hand up and down like I'm bouncing an invisible ball" gesture, too.

Here's a question, though: how far past the police do you go before you stop warning on-coming motorists? I mean, you don't want anyone getting caught but you also don't want their ride-out being ruined by looking for a copper that's 40 miles down the road either!

[Richie]

A police car pull out infront of me today in Durham...
I was going to gresture a hand signal but thought better of it.

later an oncoming bikecop gave me a nod and a wave, so a nod and a wave back.