Section 4: Rider to Rider Communication Hand Signals?
• Put a few hundred miles on my GS over the weekend in the N. GA mountains and western NC. Couple of interesting things happened. One, a fellow rider seemed to be signalling me as we passed one another. He was pointing repeatedly to his helmet. Does this mean ‘heads up, troopers ahead?’ That’s all I can figure as I saw a couple of folks being pulled over within the next 20 miles. • Regarding the hand signal… what I’ve always seen is left hand held flat and moving in an up and down motion (slow down, ease down) when a fellow rider wants to warn me of an incoming speed trap. Dunno what the head-pointing thing is. And I’d say to check the faq regarding better lighting. I think it’s out there, but haven’t done any work on my headlight situation. Seacuke, #1214, F650GS, California, East of the Bay Area. • Not really sure about the other rider pointing to his helmet and what that means. My understanding of the widely accepted signal for warning another rider of police, is to touch the palm
