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Apex_assasian
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 09:48 am: | 
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that question got me thinkin...right-handed...lefts are more comfortable.....but the chicken strips measure the same on either side 3/16th's.....go figure |
Xb9ser
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 04:54 pm: |
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To me right is better . Only time down was a left turn oil in road. My thoughts left turn if close to yellow line your head is over the yellow line. |
Roc
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 11:37 pm: |
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Road type turns, about the same. Tight full lock turns, left is much easier. |
Rocketman
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 12:44 am: |
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I find the posts in this thread rather alarming! Giving it some thought I've gone over several favourite roads / journeys and I can't find a preference for either side turn. The fact that most of you can doesn't sound good to me. If I were to draw any conclusions from your beliefs I'd say you're all all misunderstanding your own abilities.
That stuff about walking in left circles in a desert has nothing to do with it. Our bodies aren't symmetrical but we overcome that when we ride or drive a machine because we are not in direct contact with the ground. If we didn't steering wheels would be placed in the middle. As for flying, remind me not to if Court's pilot 
Either that or you guys have spent too much time on short circuits! My advice? Take up road racing.
Rocket |
M1combat
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 12:55 am: |
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Again...
"Ambi-dexterous (although I can't write as well with my left) and I like ALL corners : )." |
Chasespeed
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 05:11 am: |
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I thik we "All love all corners".
The comments are based on the wear of the tire, mine favor the left, thoguht not much..
Chase |
Honu
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 07:41 am: |
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Right-Handed
Better at left turns.
To add a twist to discussion, I attributted my like for lefts, to being a goofy footed surfer, I skate board etc... with my right foot forward, so right turns are backsided to me. Just a thought.  |
Tramp
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 09:46 am: |
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sorry to bust your bubble, but the left-hand bias shown by your chicken strips is a result of the crown of the road and our riding on the right-hand side of it.
further, left and right-handedness have far, far less to do with this than left and right-EYEdness.
anyone who shoots knows what i'm talking about.
look at an object on a wall across the room.
now, cover one eye. does the object seem to stay in place or does it leap to one side? now cover the other eye. the result will be different than the first eye. this is how we determine our dominant eye.
in surfing, skating and snowboarding, the population is pretty evenly split between goofy and regular. many will argue this, (because they were taught with "regular" bias), but when you give them the definitive test (running on a slippery surface and then sliding to see which foot goes fwd.) we find a near 50/50 split.
the right-hand/left-hand-right foot/left foot poulations are offset severely, to around 80/20.
clearly, domiant footedness/handedness has little/nothing to do with foot-fwd. bias, and far more to do with eye bias.
we turn more strongly according to our dominant eye.
(Message edited by tramp on June 20, 2005) |
Djkaplan
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 10:07 am: |
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I know I can lowside both ways. |
Raraf
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 11:00 am: |
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It is wierd. Somedays, right is easier and sometimes left is easier. But never both at the same time. Go figure |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 12:50 pm: |
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I'm good at sweeping lefts that can drag sidestand, footpeg, and boot, and I can do hard rights that sometimes do the same, but I can also square the righties off pretty comfortably. I'm not as comfortable or smooth on sweeping rights and trying to slide the bike going left is usually pretty scary. I have no chicken strip on either side. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 12:53 pm: |
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BTW, I'm right handed, right eyed, and left footed. |
Blake
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 03:08 pm: |
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Driving on the right/American/correct  side of the road allows better visibility for left hand curves, where driving on the left/British side of the road allows better visibility for right hand curves. On the street I usually feel better taking left hand curves. On the track, no difference, but at first I was more comfortable in the left hand turns.
Personally I'm more right than left, but lets leave politics out of it.  |
Blake
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 03:11 pm: |
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Or... upon reading the archive... what Henrik said.
And Court is udderly hilarious. |
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