page shows a number of signals<\/a> that I presume are pretty widely understood. I figured we might as well at least think about how we might communicate better.<\/p>\nSo the interesting thing is that while none of the guys sent a response to my email, it turned out they did check out the page and even paid attention to it. I only realized this at one point during the trip when I heard one of the guys say to another that “You must have looked at that list of signals because I saw you indicating that dead animal on the road.”<\/p>\n
And what is even more surprising is that I recorded it on film (pixels?). I had ridden ahead of the group to shoot some pictures and heard them coming along, so I turned to shoot some shots of them riding by. When I looked at the shots later, son-of-a-gun, there’s Johnathon kicking his right foot out to tell the guys behind him that there’s a hazard in the road ahead.<\/p>\n
Gosh, I felt like maybe I’d done something good.<\/p>\n
Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n
Practicing the dark and forgotten art of using turn signals since ’88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The OFMC is probably pretty typical in this regard. Early on, John and Bill and I recognized that there were a couple things we needed to be able to communicate to each other. We didn’t knock ourselves dead trying to think of every eventuality. We just came up with about three that we considered extremely necessary.<\/p>\n