Cycling superstition

i keeps my brakes in the cupboard for emergencies

31t®um always carry a pump, evertime i don't, i get a puncture........been carrying one for 10 years solid, not one puncture.

i am in this cult too.

I also think that i get more p********s in the wet than the dry. Seriously.

fakenger35 I rode without a helmet for years; never worried about it. Now I've been wearing one for three years (my girlfriend asked me to) I'm terrified to ride anywhere without it. I just know I'll come off, bang my head and then there'll be the insufferable "I was right" attitude from the gf (now wife)

Similar thing with me. My friends gave me major hassle over not wearing one, now I feel naked without it!

I had 3 punctures to a single bloody tube on Oxford St on sunday. I thought I had one, looked at the tube, spotted two. Fitted the wheel back on the Brompton (they couldn't have made it any fiddlier. Oh how I miss allen bolts/quick release), inflate and there's another one! I checked the inside of the tyre too :(

everytime i clean my chain, it rains the same day?!

get some armadillo's, touch wood, never had a puncture with them, ever!!

I wear wooden jewellery in my stretched lobes so that I'm always lucky.
Okay that's not true I actually wear wooden jewellery as it doesn't conduct the cold in the same way that metal does, hence my lobes stay free from frost bite.

i wear a small chain with a little pudsey bear hanging from it (wore it too my first critical mass and hes stayed there ever since)

Cute :]

as of yet no one else seems to notice but i know hes protecting me

SkullheadWilderness [quote]31t®um always carry a pump, evertime i don't, i get a puncture........been carrying one for 10 years solid, not one puncture.

i am in this cult too.

I also think that i get more p********s in the wet than the dry. Seriously.[/quote]

TRUFAX
You are much more likely to puncture in the wet. The rain washes all the sharp crap into the road...

its all about the lubrication

I wear Jesus in one ear and Mary in the other, so when I skid over three drain covers in a row standing on the pedals in a Jesus Christ pose, looking up, he knows I'm asking him for help.

i always ride very carefully with one foot down over the big red bridge in St Katharines dock that has evil wide grating that will gladly swallow 23in tyres and puncture them if your tyre pressure is a bit low.

I always carry a copy of the Old Testament with me.

I use it to wipe shit off my tyres.

tynan I always carry a copy of the Old Testament with me.

I use it to wipe shit off my tyres.

do you ride a Genesis flyer ;)

Every morning i grope ok ok squeeze my front tyre twice then the back 3 times laday.I ride the cheapest rigid tyres i can find.Each time i jump a red light i point to the sky.that ones for you big guy.

jonny [quote]tynan I always carry a copy of the Old Testament with me.

I use it to wipe shit off my tyres.

do you ride a Genesis flyer ;)[/quote]

Drum roll ! . . . . . . crash ! :)

dogsballs everytime i clean my chain, it rains the same day?!

Same here. Thank goodness for dry lube.

every day with good weather i dont ride extra, it blizards the next

Mine is if I go a different route to work something bad will happen,
This is not always the case but
Classic examples of this, Went a new way to work one time lost my job.
Today- canal was closed off, Had to go another way got lost, get to work
And find out I’ve “volunteered” for 2 trade shows (over weekends) that I don’t
Want to do. Then discover my phone is sitting on my bed and not in my bag

When putting new tyres on, I always line up the tyre decals with the valve hole on the rim. I started off doing this because I thought it looked neater, but now it's become a superstition.

When I set off in the dark I turn my lights on and then about 20 seconds later touch them just to make sure they're still there. Not sure why.

heh, i do that as well. I'm for some reason convinced my rear light is just going to fall or turn itself off.

Never ever say or type the p-word.. this is where you've gone wrong. The p_nct_re fairy hears it or notices you type it and then visits you.. Beware!

I'm always trying to catch the reflection of my bike lights in windows to make sure they're still on. Catch a quick glimpse of myself gliding by too, naturally.