Is it considered rude to pass a funeral procession?

At about 120 on the A24? Oops, no disrespect intended!

 

As long as one does it on one wheel only, that is acceptable.

There is etiquette.

 

I thought it was a rolling stoppie for a funeral cortege?

 

You are supposed to touch your helmet with your index finger
as a symbol of doffing your cap - a mark of respect to the deceased.
It should be the right hand but motorcyclists are allowed to use
the left if the right is busy keeping the front wheel in the air.

 

Mike Barnard came into sight through the beans and said

Did one doff one's cap?

 

Absolutely not.


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....or the rear.

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Mike Barnard <> had a sudden rush of
blood to the head and wrote in 4ax.com:

Was that near Findon? I was down there yesterday and saw a funeral
procession block the village.

 

Near, yes. Funeral processions often go up and down there. The town
crem is at the bottom of the A24. There is a turning point about a
mile north which was put in especially for these processions I
believe.

You local or visiting?

 

They must be going bloody quick for a funeral if it takes a mile to slow
down enough to turn around.

 

*Raises Adur Beer Festival commemorative glass*

 

They have timings to keep to. Sometimes it's comical seeing them
looking at their watches and you just KNOW they want to step on it.

Actually, It's dual carriageway and the next turn would be another
mile up the road. Four or five vehicles a go, several times a day.
Thats a LOT of miles cut out with that crossing.

 

Mike Barnard <> had a sudden rush of
blood to the head and wrote in 4ax.com:

On an extended hoon, so just visiting.

 

Sigh, shite here, ain't it.

 

No idea. But I expect it is not the done thing to plough into the
back of a horse-drawn wedding cortege as you round a fast left-hander.
I went for the inside and pulled up just short of the rear bumper and
my mate (two-up) went for the outside and slowed it down on the white
lines enough to give the wedding party a "cheery", two-fingered wave
before buggering off.

 

gomez wrote

My problem is that there is a very good chance I would be acquainted
with the undertakers concerned and would be in danger of giving them
the normal and respected two-fingered greeting gesture while passing
the line of mourners.