Originally Posted by
akohekohe
So please don't take offense and turn this into the sort of tirades that A&S threads almost always turn into.
A very "special" sub-forum...
As I originally posted a lot of my signalling is just habitual. I find I do it even when I know I am the only moving thing on the road and, like BD notes, I signal a right by pointing with my right hand. Whoever wrote the rulebook did so for cars...
I have rarely ridden in the kind of situation akohekohe included in his post but when I have I probably did just what he described. The key is to communicate your intentions and get a response of understanding in a situation like that. Nothing "habitual" about it. I'll shout to get another's attention if I have to.