I’ve found this great place to ride, an oasis of quiet loopy roads amidst the inner urban sprawl, and stumbled across a bunch of other motorcyclists who are doing the same thing.
I’m on a postie bike, so I assume that no one is really taking me seriously, but the on my first expedition around these roads a magical thing happened.
A guy on a sportsbike nodded at me.
It happened so fast I didn’t know what to do and didn’t have time to nod back, but it was pretty exciting. After the next bend I saw another sportsbike and tried it out myself, giving a little nod of my helmet. Another magical thing happened, he reciprocated.
I was on a roll, a motorcycling man part of the knee dragging scene. Out there together, we all understood each other’s quest for adrenaline and shared a space to escape from the madness of the world, we were one.
I saw another guy coming the other way, one of my two wheel brothers, and threw him a nod too.
He didn’t nod back.
Why? Why didn’t he nod back? Did he not see me as an equal because of my crappy bike? Did he catch a glimpse of the L plates and write me off as a cocky upstart? Did he not subscribe to the nodding code?
I gathered the shreds of my pride and tried to nod to the next guy, and was again slapped with rejection.
What is happenening here? Is there a nodding code that I need to learn or is this all just a fiction I’ve built up after receiving two nods?
Explain it to me please:
