My wife is Catholic...when we go to bed she likes to say a prayer..I just say ride or die..???

Let him pray while you check your profile.

Let him do whatever he wants but that doesn't mean you have to

Offer to lead the prayer, "Ride or Die. Amen."

When he starts to pray rev your engine, stop and wait for him to start once more before doing it again. Tell him you're praying to the Machine Gods of Old and they require a sacrifice of fuel and smoke to pay for safe travels. When he says there was no smoke, start doing donut burnouts.

Say "ride or die". He can pray if he wants to.

Go ahead and let him pray if he likes, you don't have to pray with him. If you want to say ride or die just wait till he's done and then say it, you both get what you want =)

I agree with folks who say just quietly wait for him to finish his conversation with his invisible friend, but you might ask him to ponder later if there were to be an accident, would it mean that he didn’t pray hard enough? Or if it’s just god’s will then why bother praying at all?
P.s. Congrats on the new bike!

Give him alone time....

Does he know you might be agnostic?

Ride or Die? Hmmm. Ride is the better of the two choices you offer.

When people want to pray it doesn't hurt anything unless they want to do it to disrupt traffic or impose it on others.

I support it with the condition that they include me OUT. As long as Catholics squeeze their beads as discreetly as they squeeze each others' or their own genitalia, its no biggie.

Let him pray. You don't have to. Ride or die, live free or die, these are just terms for a preferred lifestyle.

As someone said "live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse"

I am sort of your mirror image in this situation. My wife is Catholic, and I am me. However, I call my wife a Jack-Catholic, as she claims to believe but doesn't attend church except for very rare occasions usually on holidays. I also never see her pray outside of these occasions. So I am not your exact mirror, but in your position I would just let him pray and use the time to mentally focus on the ride. Think about your route, destination, anything that you may have left behind, etc.. In other words, he is using the time to focus on what he thinks is important and so should you. Stay safe out there, the cages are out to kill you!

Him saying a prayer for safe travels is really no different than exclaiming "Ride or Die!" or "Hi-yo Silver!" or anything else. It's his way of making himself feel like it's time to hit the road. Getting pumped up, like Go Team!

But...I'd definitely consider having some serious conversations about these things at a quiet, private, appropriate time. Gently asking or directing the comments at fictional people, "Do you / they really believe that prayers work? What do you / they think happens without prayer? Does god not know he should protect you, doesn't want to unless he's asked first, have a plan but then change his mind because you prayed?....Just curious to see if from your / they're point of view."

I believe I got this from some movie or something on TV, but when ever I've been asked to "say grace" before a meal (fortunately rarely) I'll say "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub!" I get away with it becuz we're a bunch of comics in my family.

what you always do unless this is the 1st time he wants to pray before riding out which would be weird

Well my fellow bikers, the only rule that really matters is that if your gut feeling tell you that you should not get on that bike for whatever reason then you listen. It has nothing to do with prayers. All and all, ride safe and keep the rubber down !!

Tell him that there is no evidence whatsoever that praying has ever made any difference beyond random chance. Tell him to pray that one hand gets full and poop in the other and see which fills first. (meant as humor).

Those candlelight dinners over a good bottle of wine must be truly interesting. Good luck to you. They say opposites attract. I guess it's true. No advice on the bike; I'm sure you use your best judgement. Having ridden a bike myself, and in Thailand, no less, one of the most dangerous places to ride, any protection, divine or otherwise, real or imagined, can't hurt.

Tell him he can catch you later at the dealership

No prayer can help him if he chose to buy a Hardley Donothing.

My wife still prays before meals; I just have to tough it out. Your situation seems fairly analogous.