Hand gestures

[Crankarm]

I only give hand gestures when turning ie left or right. I don't bother with any others as they are waste of my energy and time. Flicking the bird at some chav in a Vauxhall or an Audi A3 could distract me from my often rich seams of thought as I cycle. What do you expect, a driver to stop and congratulate you for being such a considerate cyclist? Oh, perleease! Of course you could just flick the bird to the "wrong" type of person who specialises in breaking people's fingers and legs. Then where would you be? In pain that's where. Not worth communicating with drivers either verbally or using sign language. I s'pose you could always invite them for a coffee if you were feeling benevolent by using the international sign for coffee beans.

 

[growingvegetables]

I draw the line at thanking people for merely driving with due care and attention.

Aye - but my wave is not just for the driver "driving with due care and attention" ....... it's also for the ****-***s following him/her .

Try it - and watch for the following drivers looking in their mirrors to see if they get a wave too! Nowt so vain as a guy at a steering wheel.

 

[markharry66]

is it just me or do there seem to be a lot of new members on here from wales this week

 

[Boris Bajic]

I am now giving more thumbs up than I am having close passes. I dont know if this is just a winter thing, but the driving in the past 2 months has really improved. Either that or I am not bothered by it anymore.

Sir, I imagine you will find things that bother you again in due course. Give it time. Every leopard I've ever seen has had very similar spots to the ones it had previously. Actually, I'm not sure I've ever seen the same leopard twice and there are several I haven't even seen once, but I was making a wider point. All that deleted Youtube footage and one or two recent posts tell a different story about whether various things (road behaviour, nationality, non-matching shoe laces or similar) bother certain members of CC.

On an unconnected point, my wife, a niece and a nephew (and their parents) are Welsh. My father-in-law was Welsh and learned English only to go to school. These are people you might want to loathe, in line with your truthful opinion of them. My children, however, are half-Welsh and therefore half-poor, half-rude and half ill-mannered. You would (I am sure) half-loathe them. Quite right too. Better than they deserve.

Back on topic: As to hand gestures, I find it a good thing to thank other road users and I use something not unlike the salute an officer in a vehicle might give when returning a salute from a sentry: Right hand raised, upright, open and palm forward, elbow tucked in and the side of the index finger brushing the outer end of the right eyebrow.

It looks polite, cannot be confused for anything else and is clear in meaning. It's also easy to do on a bicycle at any speed.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Aye - but my wave is not just for the driver "driving with due care and attention" ....... it's also for the ****-***s following him/her .

Try it - and watch for the following drivers looking in their mirrors to see if they get a wave too! Nowt so vain as a guy at a steering wheel.

Try it? What makes you think I haven't? I think we all go through that phase.

Nowt so vain as a cyclist who thinks their actions even register on a driver's consciousness.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

As to hand gestures, I find it a good thing to thank other road users and I use something not unlike the salute an officer in a vehicle might give when returning a salute from a sentry: Right hand raised, upright, open and palm forward, elbow tucked in and the side of the index finger brushing the outer end of the right eyebrow.

It looks polite, cannot be confused for anything else and is clear in meaning. It's also easy to do on a bicycle at any speed.

When you are on two feet rather than two wheels are you in the habit of saluting other pedestrians when they don't walk into you?

 

[Guyincognito76]

is it just me or do there seem to be a lot of new members on here from wales this week

First we take your message boards, then we take your women!

 

[markharry66]

"First we take your message boards, then we take your women!"

Mate your welcome to her I am divorced. May she bring you as much happiness as she did me zilch

 

[Mallory]

As I've learnt it better to just swear under your breath and continue cycling.

Some drivers are just tits/idiots/selfish/maniacs

I don't wish to find out which!!!

 

[BentMikey]

Try it? What makes you think I haven't? I think we all go through that phase.

Nowt so vain as a cyclist who thinks their actions even register on a driver's consciousness.

Oh but they do, and we have the evidence to prove it.

 

[jonny jeez]

I am now giving more thumbs up than I am having close passes. I dont know if this is just a winter thing, .

no, its an attitude thing.

welcome aboard. (v. pleased to see you here!)

 

[jonny jeez]

When you are on two feet rather than two wheels are you in the habit of saluting other pedestrians when they don't walk into you?

yes, if they are on course to do so and make a conscious effort not to. No-one is suggesting you thank every car on the road for not killing you, just those that make an effort not to do so.


you reap what you sow.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

yes, if they are on course to do so and make a conscious effort not to. No-one is suggesting you thank every car on the road for not killing you, just those that make an effort not to do so.


you reap what you sow.

utter victim blaming tosh.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Oh but they do, and we have the evidence to prove it.

Evidence for this?

it's also for the ****-***s following him/her .

Try it - and watch for the following drivers looking in their mirrors to see if they get a wave too!

Nope. Anecdote? Yep.

 

[BentMikey]

I wouldn't be so confident, Greg. I can show you drivers' own actions and comments. They have without any doubt whatsoever registered my actions.