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

[phaedrus]

no good luck charm, just a this way up sign on the side.

[cooneyr]

I got given a little St Christopher medal (travelers meday with plane, train, ship and automobile on the back of it) bout 15 years ago. I'm a lapsed RC. I didnt really think much of it and it keep falling of my key ring. I aways found it again (sometimes in the middle of a large gravel yard) and still have it. Kinda became special then so have made a point of looking after if for the past few years.

Come April the 6th (Good Friday) this year wifey was nervous about me riding to St Arnuad through the Rainbow and double checked I had the meddle. About 40kms from the St Arnuad end of the Rainbow I missed a corner, the bike ended up in a ditch, I went over the handle bars and broke my neck (C1). I'll make full recovery but kinda interesting. Hasnt put me off and I still carry the medal.

Have been told by pretty much everyone how lucky I was cause if you break C1 properly your not paralised, your dead. Maybe that is where the medal helped?

Cheers R

[jim.cox]

I carry a tiny Catholic medallion with a picture of Jesus on one side, and Mary holding baby Jesus on the other.
I found it in the pocket of a 1950's motorcycle jacket from the Belgian army I bought from an army surplus shop. So it's a pre-used good luck charm, double-lucky.

I don't even believe in god, but it feels good to carry it for some reason.

And you?

Plug spanner and two fresh plugs

=mjc=
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[janno]

mines attached, right betwen the legs.
and its bought me luck everywhere exept in auckland(where i currently live)
FTW

Your Haemorroids? That's a new one . . .

Whatever gives you comfort I suppose?

[RC1]

Your Haemorroids? That's a new one . . .

Whatever gives you comfort I suppose?

nothing comfy about them from what i have heard

[avgas]

I was thinkn of bolting my rod onto the side of the bike to remind me that it sometimes all goes wrong.

[Hitcher]

I am a vegetarian, and Hitcher is ribbing me in a good-natured way. Bastidge!

Even if he weren't a vego, Steam would probably benefit from some sort of Divine-Third-Party oversight/protection. It's good that he is protecting all bases, as it were...

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

About 8 years ago I was given a medallion on it with the Serenity Prayer on one side and "To Thine Own Self Be True" on the other. These keys were even dropped down a Wellington City street drain - took Excel 7 hours to get them out.

[COP_B8]

Photos of my two best mates that passed away under the back seat of my bike, take them for a ride whenever i go and reminds me not to do anything too stupid!

[vifferman]

Wow!
In theory then, if you put enough of these good luck charms on your bike, you 'd have so much good luck that you could ride like a CompleteDick™ and nothing bad would ever happen to you!

Pity there's no such thing as luck.

I have my special, super-duper key ring: it's one I got free for donating blood, and has my blood type on it. It's special because it's some soft plasticky material, so it's waterproof and doesn't mark the top triple-clamp cover. And it has this special, super-duper property of collecting road spooge, so I can tell how much crap is in the air (and my lungs). It goes from clean to CompletelyRoadSpooged in about 2 weeks.
Oh - and when I crash badly, hopefully someone will realise my blood type's written under all the spooge on the keyring, and put the proper type of blood back in.

[vifferman]

I carry a tiny Catholic medallion with a picture of Jesus on one side, and Mary holding baby Jesus on the other.

Are these pictures of Jesus and Mary'n'Jesus autographed?

[Trudes]

I'm a Cancerian, and we like to be prepared for anything, so I have a multitude of small bits and bobs that will fit under my seat, pen and paper, first aid kit, torch, my bike manual, pocket knife, bike lock and a thing to put my stand on if the ground's soft. In my jacket I carry spare change, spare house key, spare key to my lock, tissues, earplugs etc. But as far as lucky charms etc go, I always wear a bone carving necklace that was given to me when I was 16 that has a Saint Christopher attached to it, always wear the best gear I can afford and a Helmet on my head, I figure "what more can you do", aside from drive a car or wrap yourself in cotton wool!

[Lias]

Not just when I'm riding, but I've worn a pewter armanen sig rune around my neck for many years. It's not so much a good luck charm as a victory charm.

[Oakie]

mines attached, right betwen the legs.
and its bought me luck everywhere exept in auckland(where i currently live)
FTW

And how often do you rub your charm for luck? (Sorry, that was too easy)

[gijoe1313]

I think my eagerness to carry a plethora of doodads, whatchamacallits, doohickeys, gee-gaws, gimballs and other gadgetry is my lucky charm! Never leave home without them ... same old story, if you don't bring it on the one ride - you do need it!

Just gotta watch out for the Colapops who are like those pesky Keas - the gadget you need to get him off you is a handy diversion called Zapf!