Good luck charm/token/thing. Do you carry one when you ride?

[shcabbeh]

Are you sure about that? The placebo effect has been noted to in some cases be as effective as a proper course of 'pixie dust', ie. actually getting better taking sugar pills.

I very much doubt that, but I await your sources. It's easy to claim something like the placebo effect caused someone's illness to evaporate when really it's just the human body healing itself as normal.

It's also easy to confuse someone feeling better with someone being better. If you're happy and motivated etc, you'll downplay that odd wheezing cough and ache. Someone will see you and think you're not sick anymore because we don't usually associate sick people with happiness and contentment. They'll also contrast it to days when you're feeling down and thus acting the way a sick person is generally meant to look.

That's enough proof for some people.

The human mind is a very strong tool when given the right motivation. Look at Lance Amstrong, no normal person could get to his level even without cancer yet he fought through that, ok he used drugs etc to fight it, but still came out the other side with the will power and detrimination required to win the TDF a few times.

I don't think Lance Armstrong's success can be put entirely on his mindset. It was the part that made his muscles move in the right way to do it and it was the part that got him out of bed in the morning to train for it. Unfortunately that doesn't mean that anybody can win the TDF 7 times if they only believe they can.

Without our bodies, our brains kinda suck. :P

[ZeroIndex]

One or two-piece leathers... out of my 12 or 13 bins (can't remember now), none of them have ever been in leathers...

[Kendog]

Saint Christopher.

Left glove always on first.

[sAsLEX]

Saint Christopher.

Left glove always on first.

Right handed?

[Trudes]

Right handed?

He is, but so am I and I always put my right one on first......

[sAsLEX]

He is, but so am I and I always put my right one on first......

Well your just weird........ but you can see my point it might be a handness thing...we could run a poll..... or not....as you were.

[Kendog]

Well your just weird........ but you can see my point it might be a handness thing...we could run a poll..... or not....as you were.

I don't know why I do the left glove first (yes I am right handed). It's turned into a little habit, almost a ritual. If I pick up the right glove by mistake I will actually put it down.

I have only ever had two very low speed crashes on bikes and I am blaming both of them on putting the right hand glove on first.

[Kinje]

Right boot first. Right glove first. I too put the other one down if I pick it up first.

And I'm right handed

[675trippy]

no charm for me but do have the odd ritual of climbing aboard but if i see an ambulance while out it seems to mean a good ride is in order ( go figure ). As long as it's not me in it.