Motorcycle Rider Superstitions and Safety
My girlfriend Simone, 2022 Years ago, not long after I had sta rted riding, I stopped one day somewhere at a roadside cafe in the Western Cape for coffee, and innocently put my helmet down 'upside down' on the ground. I had no idea this was considered to some riders a faux pas . A stranger immediately came hurriedly up to me looking simultaneously offended, worried and agitated, and angrily said to me: "Never put your helmet down upside down!" He scolded. "The way you put your helmet is the way you're going to land on the road!" My girlfriend on my bike, 2022 He seemed convinced I was going to have an accident because I put my helmet down "wrong". I didn't say anything at the time. I just kept quiet, and he walked off. Initially I felt like I'd done something 'wrong', but I thought about this in the back of my mind for a long while, and have since concluded that (objectively and rationally) this is really just pure superst