Is it just me or doesn't anyone in Florida know the signal to warn oncoming bikes that there is a cop setup ahead of them?


I moved here from SoCal and everyone was awesome about letting oncoming bikers know that they were about to see a cop and should slow down, but since I've been riding here (almost 2 yrs) not one person has given me the heads up. I've been lucky so far, but wondered if riders here just didn't know the sign for it?


Last month I was talking to a few ppl I ride with on occasion and they had no clue that the pat on the top of the head/helmet meant that there is a cop set up ahead for oncoming traffic.


Just a random thought of mine and hoping some ppl will read this and help another biker out.

 

I use it all the time. Some people get itsome wave.

 

http://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.c...e-hand-signals

 

I was taught that relates to your headlight...

http://www.formanharley-davidson.com...s/packsig2.gif

 

Most of us do, we also know what the speed limit is and what we can get away with.
If you want to push that you need to expect to get stopped.

 

Here, (in the north -west) its left hand in the air with pointing finger extended making a circular motion imitating the cherry light on top of the cop car or else left hand out and pushing to the ground a few times to slow down--- if you don't you deserve to get busted.

 

You can usually get away with +10 in most places. You must have been hauling ***.

 

I don't want to jinx myself, but in Missouri where I am from you can pretty much count on a cop radaring every time you hit the highway or pretty much any road.

Here in S. FL it's very infrequent that I see a cop radaring. Traffic moves faster here, about 10 over most of the time, but frankly I don't mind that.

I like to think they are out dealing with worse crimes than speeding. I know there are a lot worse crimes here in S. Fla than in Mo, where speeding is evidently crime #1 (outside of Ferguson of course).

 

Slow down a little bit and you probably wouldn't have to worry about the cop up ahead running radar.

 

I use the tap on the head, since reading about it here in 2011. In WI, I don't think anybody understands it.

Better off flashing your lights. I am in Florida this weekend. I would think people would be too busy weaving through Mr. and Mrs. Magoo, and all the passholes to signal.