Left vs righthand corners?

[matdaymon]

Right lobe dominance vs left lobe dominance.

Could be a correlation.

That's what I thought it was. I've always been far more comfortable turning left than right. Can turn in a smaller turning circle going left than right and remember someone saying it was something to do with the dominant side of ya brain interfering somehow

[rdkls]

Funny, my lefts don't "feel" as comfy and I prefer rights.
I read (somewhere sorry can't remember, may be Lee Parks or Keith Code, probably the former) that differing comfort levels in turning left/right is primarily due to position on / contact with the bike.
Since then I'm trying to mirror my position when turning right, to that for left;
things like where my knees are, feet on the pegs, hands/wrists, head position etc
It's kind of helping ......

[Maki]

For me they actually are the same but a right hander feels slightly less comfortable because I am leaning into oncoming traffic. If you want to know if they really are different or if it is just your feeling check the width of your chicken strips. If they are wider one one side than the other the reason is that you feel more confident taking corners towards the side with narrower strips.

Now, track riders with no strips are going to have a go at me , but never mind .

[Latte]

For me they actually are the same but a right hander feels slightly less comfortable because I am leaning into oncoming traffic. If you want to know if they really are different or if it is just your feeling check the width of your chicken strips. If they are wider one one side than the other the reason is that you feel more confident taking corners towards the side with narrower strips.

Now, track riders with no strips are going to have a go at me , but never mind .

What about road riders with no chicken strips ?

[Maha]

Funny, my lefts don't "feel" as comfy and I prefer rights.
I read (somewhere sorry can't remember, may be Lee Parks or Keith Code, probably the former) that differing comfort levels in turning left/right is primarily due to position on / contact with the bike.
Since then I'm trying to mirror my position when turning right, to that for left;
things like where my knees are, feet on the pegs, hands/wrists, head position etc
It's kind of helping ......

Are you right or left handed?

[CookMySock]

To corner hard on right-handers, you have to swap your wheels to the left half-lane, or put your head over the centre-line and face getting it knocked off by the big-arse truck coming the other way. In left-handers, you just leave your wheels where they are and concentrate on your line. So the workload is a bit higher trying to manage tight right-handers making sure you don't cross or touch the white line. There is also the situation that you cannot see the road you are about to use, so that could mess with your mind as well.

Perhaps the wheels should be in the left half lane for any hard cornering left or right?

[AllanB]

Definitely check the alignment first.

I too have a preference for left handers.

[Gremlin]

Check alignment.
Remember, if you're not confident, the bike won't feel confident, and vice versa, so its a self-fulfilling prophecy
Road camber does play an issue, and the bike will feel a little more on edge when going against the camber, and the steeper the camber is
When going around left handers, you only have the road side, which is relatively harmless, and easy to gauge
When going around right handers you have cars inside, with varying lines, sizes (little cars vs big trucks), or no traffic and then suddenly traffic

Ride more... it'll get easier

[Maki]

What about road riders with no chicken strips ?

They need to stop leaning left when the bike turns right and vice versa.

[FJRider]

I'm pretty sure it's just some prefer let over right corners ... or vice versa ...

DON'T sweat it ....

[rocketman1]

I used to prefer lefts to rights but now it doesn't worry me at all.
Camber assists in lefts which will always reduce the chicken strips a bit more on the left, which proves you are leaning further, and feel happier doing so.
Try going around left hand corners, way on the right side of the road, you would not be leaning over nearly as much. (be crazy too I agree)

I sometimes think that left handers are more dangerous, as if come off you could slide into on coming traffic which is NOT good.
Right handers will put you in the ditch or paddock, if your lucky, rarely under a bus, like left handers, worth thinking about for a few seconds, all you lefties...

[schrodingers cat]

When I returned to riding I bought a second hand sports bike off a guy who rode pretty upright all the time.
Initially I thought that the uncomfortable feeling I was getting in right handers was totally me. Something I was or wasn't doing.

I fitted fresh tyres and the problem went away.

Something about how the last bloke rode caused scalloping in behind the sipe on the RHS (only) of the front tyre.

It was spooky as hell

[Blackshear]

For what it's worth, i'm right handed and fucking love left handers.
This is not a traffic thing, my head is overly cautious about right handers, despite an obvious balance between the two. Maybe my head tries to defend the dominant right side of my body, who knows.

Doesn't stop me going hard though...

[rdkls]

Are you right or left handed?

Write left-handed but most other things right.
It's weird, very comfortable just relaxing right and with the weight just goes, feels good, but not as much with left. Pretty sure it's posture, and mental. Traffic etc irrelevant (same on track)

[Smifffy]

When I returned to riding I bought a second hand sports bike off a guy who rode pretty upright all the time.
Initially I thought that the uncomfortable feeling I was getting in right handers was totally me. Something I was or wasn't doing.

I fitted fresh tyres and the problem went away.

Something about how the last bloke rode caused scalloping in behind the sipe on the RHS (only) of the front tyre.

It was spooky as hell

Yeah, my bike also felt much more comfortable after installing new (and better) tyres, even though technically there was still plenty of wear left in the ones on the bike when I got it.