Wot he said!Now that’s a proper motorcycle! What a beauty!
Haven't I seen that building before, was it your polling station?
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Haven't I seen that building before, was it your polling station?
Once ridiculed, Kawasaki's “Green Meanies” began to inspire fear and awe in their rivals. By deliberately choosing to embrace Lime Green, Kawasaki announced to the world that conventional thinking would not be a barrier in the pursuit of new challenges.I think Kawasaki would disagree with that sentiment.
The superstitions surrounding green are numerous and varied. In many ancient cultures, green was associated with growth, fertility, and the natural world. However, in medieval Europe, green was often seen as a symbol of illness, death, and decay.
It's a long-standing superstition in motorsports that having the color green on your race car is bad luck.
There is a superstition among some motorcycle riders that owning a green Harley Davidson motorcycle is bad luck. This superstition has been around for many years as many riders believe owning a green Harley can lead to accidents, breakdowns, and other problems. However, there is no evidence to suggest that green Harley-Davidson motorcycles are more or less reliable than motorcycles with other colors.
I found a whole bunch of this on Google. So, whoever originally told me that didn't just make it up.
Or, if we include BRG as green, it just means your car is British. Which mebbe adds up to the same thing?
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In Celtic mythos the Green Man was seen as the lord of the underworld as I recall
Way back when I was racing hobby class dirt stock cars, green was bad luck. I don't recall seeing one solid green car, but there was a white and green Nova that was pretty quick. Maybe a little green doesn't hurt. 
We had a local guy in the mid 70's at our local dirt track that ran a 66-67 Plymouth Satellite.He did O.K. and I don't recall any "bad luck".Way back when I was racing hobby class dirt stock cars, green was bad luck. I don't recall seeing one solid green car, but there was a white and green Nova that was pretty quick. Maybe a little green doesn't hurt.
Haven't been any problems yet...
WOW!! That's freakin georgeous!!
Hopefully my XS-1 doesnt abide by that?
I had a 1969 Triumph in green (the original color.) I once came home from work to find the fire dept in my driveway. My wife had called them because the whole house smelled of gasoline and she didn’t know what piece of shit I had in the basement was causing it. There were many options for that back then. The fire department found the green leaker and put it outside then ventilated the house. Other than that, no problem.Hopefully my XS-1 doesnt abide by that?
Green bikes are bad luck and 4 leaf clovers are good luck.... got it.
You can't make this stuff up....
You can't make this stuff up....
eidemaddin
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Progress cannot be stopped. Today we have green gasoline that leaks because it destroys the seals no matter what color the bike is
I'll tell you what colour is bad luck on cars - misty silvery grey.
Driven by fumducks who don't turn their lights on on a misty day.
Maine law - and common sense - says you must turn your headlights on in the rain. A dark vehicle on a dark road on a dark day is a recipe for disaster.
Yet EVERY FUCKING TIME, the majority of vehicles I see are running without lights. I flash mine at them in case they just forgot. 1 in 10 turn their lights on. 7 in 10 flip me the bird.
Folks, it's not 1950 any more. Running your headlights is not going to kill your battery.
If I were a cop, I'd stop and ticket every damn one of them.
In Canada, daytime running lights (ie, headlights on low beam) are mandatory on all vehicles. Turn the key on, lights are on. Taillights are not
If green race cars are bad luck, someone must have forgotten to tell Colin Chapman, Jim Clark and probably a long list of other British race car drivers driving Lotus, Jaguars, Aston Martins, among others. In the US, what about Group 44/ Bob Tulius Jags, Harry Gant (Skoal colours) and so on...
Short ride this afternoon after a stormy and rainy morning. Little river crossing on one of my regular routes. Although you can't make them out in the middle photo, there is a big flock of Mallards floating in the river:
Gotta be the dumbest thing car manufacturers did - perhaps directed by the government. What I’m talking about is daylight running lights on without tail lights coming on. I believe new cars have both front and rear lights on now. I see so many eejits (new vocabulary from my trip to Ireland), driving at night with DRL’s only and no other lights. Sometimes I’ll flash my lights to wake them up but I think my success rate is less that 1%. One night I was heading home on the highway and a car was driving along with no lights on at all. I tried flashing light but to no avail. At the off ramp stoplight, the woman pulled up beside me, rolled her window down to give me an earful of WTF are you doing. I explained I was trying to get her to turn her lights on before she caused an accident. Talk about one embarrassed beeotch.
Must be a federally-mandated thing, the manufacturers would not implement such a function of their own volition.