It's been almost two years since my motorcycle accident and I'm starting to shop for a new bike. One of the bikes I'm looking at is a kawasaki (back off Harleyguy) and one of the color schemes it comes in is a pretty fucking cool green on black. The problem is that there's a superstition in the motorcycle world that green bikes are bad luck and my wife would prefer that I don't push my luck any more than I have to at this point (even tho we both know that I'm gonna crash any bike I but at some point no matter what color it is).
The superstition about green bikes dates back to WWII when the flyboys were getting out the services and there was a surplus of army bikes for sale to the public, obv green. Looking for thrills and having lots of time plenty of cash, these guys started buying these bikes and plenty of them proceded to go get themselves killed. I'm pretty sure that most of the crazy fuckers out there killing themselves now are doing it on black bikes, but once a superstition starts it never stops.
Anyway, this got me thinking about superstitions and the reasoning behind them. Like, I believe that it is in fact bad luck to walk under a ladder. Not because of some silly superstition but because people work on ladders and sometimes they drop things from ladders and sometimes those things are heavy and could kill you.
So the question is, what other perfectly logical explanations are there for not so logical superstitions.
