i have always liked to have my own hands on the bars that way i can always speed up or slow down and as for thumbing a lift off somebody no chance you could be getting on the back of some right jimmy fireblade i would sooner walk
i think a guy rode a cymaco over there 6 or 7 years ago dont know how he got on with it, and last time i was there there was someone going round not too badly on a super moto