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No idea how true this is ...but i want it to be true.

Do you know the history of biker greeting? ✌ ✌ ✌
Legend tells of two knights who tried to conquer the same Lady, and met on the way to her castle, the gentleman who walked back raised his two fingers as a sign of victory, because the contested girl had already been conquered...

I have to say i dont know, but its pretty universal (apart from mopeds - you ignore those )

I think it's bollocks. When did the V for victory start?

Now if you had said that the knight used his two fingers to wipe under the nose of the losing knight then I might have believed it

So grown knights were playing smelling finger Not sure i believe that

you wouldn't need to get that close , medieval hygiene leaves a lot to be desired ,

Jack wrote:you wouldn't need to get that close , medieval hygiene leaves a lot to be desired ,

So basically smell my lance, I've just impaled your woman

two fingers is from the battle of agincourt ,the English bow men used two fingers on the bows and gave the french the Vs because they were going to shoot the shit out of them

Almost. The French would cut off the index and/or middle fingers of any English bowmen they captured so they couldn't shoot again. The English flicked the V's to show they had their archers ready.

I always understood the biker v-sign was just shorthand for "two wheels"...and that's that - nothing deep or meaningful. Although allegedly messrs Harley and Davidson would greet each other this way when they crossed paths with one another, eventually leading to them joining forces.



As for Agincourt, British longbowmen, etc...isn't that just folklore??
And didn't it just refer to the middle-finger salute??

D41 wrote:I always understood the biker v-sign was just shorthand for "two wheels"...and that's that - nothing deep or meaningful. Although allegedly messrs Harley and Davidson would greet each other this way when they crossed paths with one another, eventually leading to them joining forces.



As for Agincourt, British longbowmen, etc...isn't that just folklore??
And didn't it just refer to the middle-finger salute??

It’s not folklore
Harley rides dont greet anybody on a plastic sports bike they are far to hard and cool for that