Originally Posted by
xxguitarist
Do you signal with just your left hand (straight for left, bent up for right) or do you simply point with the arm that corresponds with the direction you're headed?
I noticed that in Denmark lots (not all) of the cyclists would raise their right arm to signal that they were stopping (a bit like asking a question in class) but to anyone that isn't familiar with it, it just looks like Hitler's self-salute.
If I'm going left, I stick my arm out to the left and if I'm going right, I stick my arm out to the right. The point of the "bent up for right" signal was that if drivers used their right arm to signal right, it would be less visible to the cars behind - better if everything was stuck out the window. But it makes no sense for cyclists to do that.