View Poll Results: Righthanded people make for better riders?

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Thread: Does being righthanded make you a better rider?

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    Being right handed doesnt make you a better rider. It just makes you more convienient for the company that manufactures of the model bike you purchased.

    As something like 80% of the world are right handers then it only makes ecconomic sense to them to produce their goods in that configuration.

    If it were 50/50 then we would probably see bikes set up for lefties.

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    Try eating with your knife and fork on the opposite hand to normal.

    I'm right handed and hold the fork in my left, yet the fork requires more dexterity doesn't it ?

    I think it's a learnt skill, rather than being born left or right, so doesn't matter.
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    i'm left handed and i crash i mean errr ride perfectly well.

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    I am ampidextrous and I ride/drive badly from both sides, I also dribble from both sides of my mouth!

    I am a left footer but I kick with my right!

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    i can do clutch wheelies quite well so go figure....

    the downside is....

    on average left handed people live 7 years less than right handed people edit..AHAHAHA the smiley is waving with it's left hand....

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    apparently i eat left-handed......
    knife in the left and fork in the right.

    im right handed

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    I know that a lot of learners have 'issues' on right hand corners rather than left because they have the controls on that side and are nervious putting pressure on that side.

    Go have a look at the chicken strips on an improvers bike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mdooher View Post
    Don't even start about LHD vs RHD cars
    Tell me about it - after years of changing gear with left hand try a left-hand drive car and try power-shifting with you right hand - not easy as you'ld think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deano View Post
    I think it's a learnt skill

    I have to agree with you there...
    As a cellist I have had to train my left hard to become extra dexterous so it is fast enough and strong enough to play the notes I need to. Being a natural right hander, this was incredibly difficult at first, but now it feels natural.
    The same sorts of questions about left/right handedness pop up when talking about vioins/ cellos, but you play the same way (bow hand, strings hand) regardless of which hand you write with.

    I don't think left-handers are at a disadvantage, because we all have to learn particular skills in order to maipulate the controls of a bike.

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    RIGHT HANDED? THOUGHT THIS WAS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE! lol


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    You be trippin, but if you sit on your left hand for ten minutes...

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    There I was thinking my crashes in the past were because of my inept riding

    No, I'm left- handed, genetics are to blame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmay View Post
    Motorcycle controls are operated (generally) by the right side of the body, so in theory righthanded people would have an advantage as they have better control of that side of their body.
    did you know...

    10% of the population are perfect.... the rest are right-handed...??

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    Im a lefty..

    Makes no difference at all IMO.

    Its all part of the mental game!


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