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Just about everyone favours the left cornering or the right, which are you ?

next question of course is why ?

I seem to favor the right. I dont know the scientific reasoning behind this other than the fact that I am right handed. And I can skate better crossing over the right leg over in left curves. but cannot, for some stupid reason, cross the left leg over going into a right turning curve. And I can write with my right foot!!!

It doesn't matter to me on the bike, nor on skis. I seem to however favor left(counter-clockwise) on ice skates. I can sustain some serious speed on left hand turns.

I think it's because I have equal opportunity for both sides on motorcycles and skis, but on skates, the vast majority of the time, you are mandated to go left(counter-clockwise). The more you do it, the better you get.

It's the same reason in baseball, left handed hitters have so much problem hitting left handed pitchers. It's because there are so few natural lefties so you get to see far fewer pitches from a lefty and you just don't get enough practice hitting them.

Keep in mind though that something like 60% of major league pitchers are lefties.
On the bike I prefer the right-handers. Always been my stronger side and it was the first side I scraped pegs on. There's a local cloverleaf where I practiced keeping my right footpeg scraping for well over 180 degrees...

I'm not sure I favor one direction over the other on a bike. 95% of MX tracks have a left as the first corner.... and that's the hairest, most intense corner you'll do that day, so I am pretty comfortable hanging a left. But I don't really have an issue with rights, either. I'll go where ever the road goes.

I write with my right, shoot left in hockey, bat either way (badly) in baseball and can wrench equally well with either..... I use the hand that's closer for mechanic-ing.

Can't write with either foot though....... but you know I want to see that.

Wrider wrote:Keep in mind though that something like 60% of major league pitchers are lefties.

Wrider, that cannot be possible. There are far more righties than lefties. I would guess that left handed pitchers probably are about 25% of the MLB pitchers.

I don't know the actual figures for the entire MLB roster but I do know that the NY Yankees currently have 12 pitchers and only 3 are Lefties. CC Sabbathia, Andy Pettitte, & Damaso Marte.

I don't really have a preference but I tend to rub off all the chicken strip on the right side of the tire more. That's because highway entrance ramps are usually decreasing radius right hand turns. Also in the US, right hand turns are always tighter than left hand turns because it is the inner turn of the road, hence a tighter circumference.

I don't find I'm better at either side. Both will always need improvement though

588 pitchers have appeared in at least one game in 2009. 420 are right handed, and 168 are left handed. This means that 71% of pitchers are right handed and 29% are left-handed, which comes to a righty-to-lefty ratio of about 2.5:1.

Looks like you were right, I guess I was mis-remembering something...

Wrider wrote:588 pitchers have appeared in at least one game in 2009. 420 are right handed, and 168 are left handed. This means that 71% of pitchers are right handed and 29% are left-handed, which comes to a righty-to-lefty ratio of about 2.5:1.

Thank you for the actual ratio, Wrider. Since only 10% of the population is lefties, ratio-wise quite a bit more southpaws make it to the Majors.

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!