I have speakers inside my helmet. I listen to music but it has never been loud enough for me not to hear the bike or another type of road noise.

Besides slouching and constantly berating myself when I realize it I also check my pockets and air vents on my helmet.

 

I constantly check my pockets, I do this when I'm not on the bike as well, slap both thighs and my ***. Haha I probably look like an idiot but I gotta make sure my phone, wallet, and sometimes ipod are still there. I also find myself riding with just one hand a lot when the road is fine and there's no traffic. I'm also constantly looking around. Checking mirrors, road condition as far ahead as I can see, sides of the road, traffic, houses, the weather, etc. My head spins like a radar satellite. I also tend to touch my helmet like I'm scratching my nose, I guess I forget I'm wearing it or something.

 

Lol +1 to the slapping pockets every time I walk out the door I say wallet keys and phone and touch the corresponding pockets.

 

hahaha +100000. People see me do it sometimes and must think I'm crazy.

 

+∞ Same thing here.

 

I flash my brake lights when im sitting at an intersection or a stop sign and someone is coming up behind me. Just to make sure they see me. I do it almost subconsciously.

Im also kinda fidgety on a longer ride or a boring road. I think part of it comes from accidentally wearing a pair of boxers that were slightly too tight one time and having sore *cough* jewels *cough*.

 

lol, and i thought i was the only one that did this. I do it about every five minutes if i'm walking around. half for fear of it falling out and half for fear of being pick pocketed. lol

never been pick pocketed by a person but i've been pick pocketed by lots of couches and chairs. lol

 

I do the pockets check too. Each pocket holds a specific item. I also scratch my nose a lot during riding. I do it too when working out in the gym. For some reason I get an itchy nose.

I also ride with my left hand on my hip a lot if it isn't too busy and move my elbow out of the way to use the left mirror. I was cruising with my bro (me on the bike, him in his Jag) and rode with my hand on my hip. Afterwards he asked wtf I was doing with my hand. He said it looked like I was constantly touching my junk. I just said I can sit more upright like that and didn't think much of it until I rode back home.

I was riding with one hand on the hip and caught the movement my hand makes when I tuck in the elbow to use the mirror. I laughed out loud and imagined what it must have looked like when he was behind me on the highway.

I should have told him I realllly like my bike!

Other habits include tapping my feet and 'drumming' with my hands on my legs when at a stop light.

 

I've always got my index finger resting on the top of the front brake lever. After T boning two cars (actually, one was a dual cab 4x4) I'm a little paranoid. When I do actually use the brake my middle finger gets used as well. It's like I subconsciously touch the brake lever to sort of "know" it's there.

 

I did the same thing after I imagined what the three cars that passed us going in the other direction would be thinking after what they witnessed. Imagine seeing four bikes, a CB1300, '05 GSXR750, CB1000R and me about 60 yards behind chasing them up a mountain pass with everything scraping on my dad's VT750DC Shadow. I actually laughed out loud in my helmet. After that ride they dubbed it "the hardest ridden shadow ever!" Poor bike.