Strangest Rider Superstitions

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 1:14pm
Remember RC and his affinity for fugly orange Fox gear back in the early 80s or whenever that was? It was his lucky color until he realized that he was unbeatable and then he resumed wearing other colors. lol.

What is the strangest thing you have heard of or done?

Myself? I always wear the same jock strap. Been wearing it since pop warner football in 1987.
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cmess77 7/5/2011 10:46pm
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Not motocross, but Valentino Rossi is superrrrrrrrrrrrrrr superstitious, and has many rituals involving his bike before and after he takes to the track with it, the most noteworthy one being he always crouches down on one of the footpegs and touches it before he rides, and h always gets off the bike by swinging his right leg over the tank. Kinda weird.
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EvanR127 7/5/2011 10:48pm
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Mines not a superstition but a habbit. I check the fuel and choke way to excessively while riding. Like I will check it a good 5 times in a 15 minute moto, Just anal about having the fuel turn off and cause me to eat shit over a jump.
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bullpen58 7/5/2011 10:58pm
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EvanR127 wrote:
Mines not a superstition but a habbit. I check the fuel and choke way to excessively while riding. Like I will check it a good 5...
Mines not a superstition but a habbit. I check the fuel and choke way to excessively while riding. Like I will check it a good 5 times in a 15 minute moto, Just anal about having the fuel turn off and cause me to eat shit over a jump.
That IS pretty strange to check that DURING a moto!!!

Good stuff about Rossi too!
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There was an article a few years ago in Transworld on this topic.. I havent got it on me but I remember one of the weirdest ones was Stewart needing the bike to start on an odd kick, or he would just shut it down and try again.

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ballinger19 7/6/2011 3:21am
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kw1 wrote:
There was an article a few years ago in Transworld on this topic.. I havent got it on me but I remember one of the weirdest...
There was an article a few years ago in Transworld on this topic.. I havent got it on me but I remember one of the weirdest ones was Stewart needing the bike to start on an odd kick, or he would just shut it down and try again.
Went to a race and only had a yellow and a green riding sock with me. Rode about my best ever so for several years after that I had green on the left and yellow on the right and always left first.
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pitbike502 7/6/2011 3:25am
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Before my little guy races his motos, we do a "team" chant of "We don't take nothing from no one!" Until he's yelling at the top of his lungs.. gettin him a little pysched up!
puremxgame 7/6/2011 4:09am
7/6/2011 4:09am
I think it was Yogi who used to put all of his gear on left first.
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BuDtySer1 7/6/2011 4:26am
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At the gate I make sure the gas is turned on, the gas cap is tight, and the radiator cap is tight.... in that order
Moto East Mag 7/6/2011 7:05am
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kw1 wrote:
There was an article a few years ago in Transworld on this topic.. I havent got it on me but I remember one of the weirdest...
There was an article a few years ago in Transworld on this topic.. I havent got it on me but I remember one of the weirdest ones was Stewart needing the bike to start on an odd kick, or he would just shut it down and try again.
ballinger19 wrote:
Went to a race and only had a yellow and a green riding sock with me. Rode about my best ever so for several years after...
Went to a race and only had a yellow and a green riding sock with me. Rode about my best ever so for several years after that I had green on the left and yellow on the right and always left first.
I have a sock fetish too. One day I got to the track and had only one sock. So I just wore one sock. Crashed and broke my hip and got airlifted.
Now I am freaky about socks. Won't go on the track with mismatched socks, or "one" of anything.
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rallendude 7/6/2011 7:11am
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Heard Emig always HAD to have a baked potato the night before a race. I think I heard him say once he had to walk a couple of miles to get a baked potato on the night before a SX race.

Wasn't it RC who always went to Outback after the races?

I've had lucky underwear before. Always wore the same ones on race day. That started with high school wrestling.

It's not a superstition but I almost always go left knee brace first, left pant leg first, left sock first, left boot first. It's more of an OCD thing than superstition.
TriRacer27 7/6/2011 7:28am
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RC was really superstitious, so is Stewart.


What about Alessi? Has anyone ever seen him race in any color gear other than some combination of yellow, orange and red since he was an amateur? He is the only guy I've ever seen to wear the same exact gear at just about every race, including helmet and goggles.
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Barrett57 7/6/2011 8:47am
7/6/2011 8:47am Edited Date/Time 7/6/2011 8:49am
i never run any number with 8 or 6 in it.

every time my number has the numbers 8 or 6 I eat shit big style.

and after i nearly broke my back (while running number 86)

i changed my number to 511 and had some really good rides, so thats the number i always use.
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txmxer 7/6/2011 9:01am
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Barrett57 wrote:
i never run any number with 8 or 6 in it. every time my number has the numbers 8 or 6 I eat shit big style...
i never run any number with 8 or 6 in it.

every time my number has the numbers 8 or 6 I eat shit big style.

and after i nearly broke my back (while running number 86)

i changed my number to 511 and had some really good rides, so thats the number i always use.
I first heard the term "86" or something like that in the military.

Snopes has an article on it, but it doesn't really answer the history.

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/86.asp
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mjskier 7/6/2011 9:02am
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every time my number has the numbers 8 or 6 I eat shit big style.

What about factors of 8 and 6 (4, 2, 3, 1...)? Evil
The problem with this superstition is that if you ride long enough you will eventually run out of lucky numbers.

I apologize to my bike when I crash or ride poorly, just in case it has a mind of its own...
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JustMX 7/6/2011 9:10am
7/6/2011 9:10am Edited Date/Time 7/6/2011 9:12am
I have heard all kind of strange things about Reed having some kind of medicine man traveling with him on the circuit.

Uses some kind of stone thingy to predict how the day will go and what they may need to change to align the planets or whatever it is he is trying to do.

Hey, whatever he is doing does some to be working.

Maybe they need to sell some kind of membership like the psychic friend thing used to (but only to Amateur riders that are at least 2 years away from getting a pro license).
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If I was superstitious I would obviously put my right boot on first, but I put my left boot on first everytime
to prove to myself that I am not superstitious.

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