Attention BMW Riders

[chronyx]

Yes yes, I know Ewan McJedi went round the world on one, and yes I know that makes you better than every other biker out there, and yes, your amazing riding talents are wasted on the roads, but even so, if I nod at you, you are allowed to nod back.

C***s.

[Cie]

Be happy in the knowledge that their servicing and repair bills probably amount to the cost of your bike.

[Whealie]

Joining a main carriageway on the way back from the Plain on Sunday, four German GS's went past me, all clean and shiny, while I was caked in mud. They all slowed down, had a good look and waved enthusiastically.
I think it is UK BMW owners. They think that now they have a BMW they need to behave like Germans. Trouble is their view of how Germans behave is based on Colditz and the Germans have moved on since then.
(I mentioned the war but I think I got away with it)

[africatijn]

When it's just a Beemer, they tend not to wave (here we wave, being able so by riding on the "right" side).
When in a combined group with other bikes, they wave as well. Having lowered themselves to the working class...

And don't get me started about the H-D bunch....

[Pussyhorse]

OI, I've got a GS! I ignore every khant when I'm on my XRV too.

Bloody plebs....

[YEN_POWELL]

Just read that bloke from Top Gears column in Motorcycle news. He's not happy about the service bill for his 3 year old low mileage GS1150. Seems it's not up to the rough London Streets and all the rear suspension bearings are shot. £600.....

[Pussyhorse]

He used to take it to Park Lane IIRC. They quoted me 470 quid for a fluid change service or my Adv!

[Mabels Old Man]

Oi don't paint us all with the same brush, it's just the majority of us can't do one handed riding!!

[cabbage2404]

Great Tits M.O.M

[Dee Duble Yuh]

Don't get me started! I used to have a BMW and found that it was the riders of Japanese bikes that ignored me!

Riders who don't respond might do so for a variety of reasons:
- maybe they can see a hazard developing just up ahead that you can't see (because it's behind you);
- maybe they don't wave/nod on principle because riding a bike is hazardous enough without taking their eyes off the road ahead just to soothe someone else's ego;
- maybe they're on the Autocom bike-to-bike or mobile and can't do three things at once;
- maybe they think all this waving/nodding is a load of nonsense;
- maybe they're just pig-ignorant!

On three separate occasions years ago I nearly had a major accident, and on all three it was mainly because I'd been distracted looking at other motorcycles. For a while I stopped nodding altogether. Now I use the sight of another bike as a reminder to check my mirrors. If the rider coming the other way thinks I'm nodding my head, fine. I doubt I'll ever meet him/her, so what do I care?

Great Tits M.O.M. Have you been putting on weight?