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Wrider wrote:Darn southpaws! Just can't go and be normal like everyone else now can they... Guess that's why 2500 are killed every year on average using right-handed stuff. Shows them who's more dominant!

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More info on this please.

When I train, I notice that some peeps have a natural tendency toward the left, bear in mind we drive/ride on the left here. Right hand cornering does not come as natural. I myself am like this and find it much easier to climb off the left than the right. Where did you get the above infoe, maybe some relevance there.

Argh I voted wrong!

I'm a leftie

I'm pretty equal--I like both left and right--but there seem to be a whole lot more left turns around here than right, and I just don't seem to get turned around to take 'em in the opposite direction. Right turns bothered me until I learned to really snap my head (kinda like cops do) and exaggerate the head turn while making a right...did that enough and the righties smoothed out. Now they're pretty equal, though I'd love to find some really long flowing right curves to work a little more.

sapaul wrote:

Wrider wrote:Darn southpaws! Just can't go and be normal like everyone else now can they... Guess that's why 2500 are killed every year on average using right-handed stuff. Shows them who's more dominant!

????????

More info on this please.

When I train, I notice that some peeps have a natural tendency toward the left, bear in mind we drive/ride on the left here. Right hand cornering does not come as natural. I myself am like this and find it much easier to climb off the left than the right. Where did you get the above infoe, maybe some relevance there.

Took me a while to do the research, but it comes from a British Government study on chances of dying in unlikely ways. They did it to prove to the public that the risk of dying because of a nuclear power plant was astronomically low.
Nuclear accident: 10,000,000:1
Plane crash: 11,000,000:1
4,400,000:1: Dying because you're a lefty using something designed for a righty
Here's the article, some pretty interesting numbers there.
Scientists Calculate Odd Ways to Die

Thanks interesting stuff

I prefer right hand turns on the bike because I don't have to worry about the opposing traffic taking my head off when I'm leaning into that tight turn. :-X

Otherwise, I'm ambidextrous. I use my left and right equally well for pretty much everything but have preferences such as writing right handed, throwing baseball left, etc.

Doh! I chose right BEFORE reading your post as I hastily assumed you were asking which hand we all are. Oops!

I prefer left turns. I feel more daring and gutsy doing left curves than right. When I take right turns/curves I feel more apprehensive. I have no idea why!

This is weird, I always feel better on a given turn (if it match just opposite direction) going to the left rather than going to the right. In fact my two drops are going toward the right.

RhadamYgg wrote:This is weird, I always feel better on a given turn (if it match just opposite direction) going to the left rather than going to the right. In fact my two drops are going toward the right.

That's normal. Usually the majority of the population prefer going left. I'm surprised that the our poll shows otherwise.

I love taking uphill right turns and even tight right turns even though I'm left handed. Hummm...

I am surprised so many people said "Equal", wow, I would have thought the majority would prefer one type of directional turn over another...

Mike