Motorcycle Habits Infiltrating Day to Day Life

Yeah, really.

People have made mention of the ways in which getting rider's training has made them a better driver overall.  For example, it seems like the general driving population has a lot of trouble with the idea of a "safety cushion," while bikers have an intimate understanding of how valuable it is as part of an overall street survival strategy.

Heck, SIPDE* is just a good daily strategy for life in general, why limit it to traffic?

There are also habits that are partly just muscle memory.  When I got contact lenses after wearing glasses for years, it took me months to stop trying to adjust glasses that weren't there.  And there are quirky little motorcycle actions that I don't even have to think about on the bike, I just do them.

But then there are the weird things that only a biker would do in day to day life.

Like guarding the clutch on a shopping cart, for example. Oddly, I do not find myself twisting my right wrist all the way back the second I get the cart moving.  I'm not sure why that habit didn't transfer too...

Have you caught yourself doing anything like this?


* Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute - in case you forgot.