Should I be supertitious??

Monday was one of the 1st warm day in San Francisco and we took my old green British car for a spin (I still cannot ride)... At less than a mile from the accident which left me crippled, a young kid rushed out of a driveway in a blind turn and took the front of my car...


Green, British, same road.... Should I change something or is it just plain bad karma???

Philippe

Jeez, Phillipe I guess you've got to consider paint in something other then British Crashing Green! :shock:

A long time friend in Nortons told me Green is an unlucky colour for motorcycle. Why ? I don't see how but now I'm starting to believe him!

Mick

My mother used to say that any green is bad luck...
Philippe

Since your Commando has some green in it, I would be worried sick. You can crate it and send it to me, I will send a "gris gris" in return to ward off evil spirits :mrgreen:

Jean

To me, superstition is on the same level as religion. no offense intended to anyone, but we humans have great imagination, we can explain and rationalize anything we don't understand, especially the music of chance. Cars, bikes, planes, trains and boats of all colors crash and burn. Life is like blackjack, not too many chances to hit 21, but if you count the cards on the table, you might not go bust.

I will not & my wife will not let me buy another green vehicle. I had 3 accidents & a near death miss in a green Triumph Sprint in one day about 19 years ago. Another green Triumph 2000, the brakes failed once, went sideways onto a busy main road, just missing traffic, with my wife holding my 6 month old baby daughter in the back seat.
At least my Stag was yellow.
My daughter, who is now 27, had a green Peugot until recently. A car smashed into it, denting the wing & door. She had it fixed, then, within a week my neighbour across the road left her handbrake off & her car ran down the drive, across the road & into my daughter's car.
She won't touch another green car for some reason.

I had a BRG TR-4 and....












not one problem. YMMV :mrgreen:

Who TF knows, just gotta keep testing theories like Wydness or Karmic loads or just plain ole surprise fates when venturing out beyond bed room. I have even more close calls than impacts, too fast events for me to react to but squeal or scream.
I'm going with yellow paint or anything but green, just in case : )

I can imagine my poor car in yellow... BUT I saw one, in the East Bay, pink with 19" chrome wheels and white seats...Yo Mamma!
Philippe

Every day I ride a bike in this traffic, you can imagine how that makes me feel to see your car. My sports cars is a Boston Green BMW M Roadster so I hope color is not a factor. They are out to get us.

He regards life as a war -- an undeclared war against fate, the fate that hunts men down. "... One can never know when, where, or how fate will strike. Yet sooner or later it does...." Blind random events without a perceptible cause. FATE.

http://www.amazon.com/Fate-Hunter-Ernes ... 0671636030

So its late at night, and I have never been a heavy sleeper. tired of watching satellite news, so I put on some music... for me, a little jazz is great food for thought.

Eventually, my thoughts turn to my old bike, and a planned trip to at least 9000 ft elevation on 13,000 ft Mauna Kea. I'm thinking about the highway on the Hilo side, which is a fun, twisty run through a mountainside forest.

Then, Phillipe's thread here comes to mind. If you have a green bike or car, and you're riding/driving through verdant, wooded topography....
another person on the roadway, whose not paying attention, may not see you as well, as if your bike were "commando yellow".


green mystery solved?

There is something to that blending in thing. I have been wanting to paint the Production Racer body work I have for my bike in a Med dark metalic grey with silver decals. Two days ago I was in a parking lot around 5:30 am ( not much light) when a guy on a bike with very much the same colors I want crossed my path without stopping where he should have. I could have hit him he blended in with the grey buildings, sky & other cars so well. Fate Hobart? Or just his poor jugement not to stop for on coming traffic that has the right of way?

gtsun said:

There is something to that blending in thing. I have been wanting to paint the Production Racer body work I have for my bike in a Med dark metalic grey with silver decals. Two days ago I was in a parking lot around 5:30 am ( not much light) when a guy on a bike with very much the same colors I want crossed my path without stopping where he should have. I could have hit him he blended in with the grey buildings, sky & other cars so well. Fate Hobart? Or just his poor jugement not to stop for on coming traffic that has the right of way?

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Yellow. And loud. Safety Fast!

GT, its all of the above, cars and bikes that lack contrast with the background just adds another level of risk on top of chances a fella having a heart attack that slams his foot on wrong peddle while blacking out to miss seeing the neon white bike and helmet. How do you account for a deer struck in opposite lane that flings it over center railing onto oncoming biker? If you feel king of your fate by doing everything in your power to be safe and sound on 2 wheels, I tremble at what it can take to change your opinion closer to mine. Superstition practice is fine by me if makes one feel better, but certainly does nothing to fate - constant risk of random over whelming events Its never worked that good for me so don't bother believing in it but can't help those thoughts or tradition crossing mind time to time.

Sometimes a close call occurs so fast I can't react to it but am fine, to be left wondering if I should have a mental or emotional reaction somehow to stave off another, but mostly just take easy next breath and carry on - knowing that chance event hazards just re-set to start of new 'game' again.

2 nights ago may have been end of my posting if on bike that deer leaped on instead of car, which can take a lot more rebound loads to recover a fast side jerk that squealed tires going 55 mph. I think I could have avoided deer but not sure I could have recovered before over opposite side down into trees at 50 mph.

Safe Journeys,
[ sign off is my superstitious desire to stave bad fate off in everyone's case. Would go out and bust a tire be better sign off? ]