Strange. I remember Simon Crafar asking me which corners I was most confident with, left or right. I can honestly say I like both left and right the same. No preference at all.
Did you fall asleep by the end of his question? I suspect most like lefts more as the road is wider for exit, and there is less risk of going too fast. Right have a verge or worse. Ho wide, go home under siren. Thats why I wonder if our EU friends have the same kind of aversion to lefts? I also think if you ride on track a lot in the early days of riding (I know some who pretty much went straight to race school so bypassed all the 20yrs of bad habits stuff) as there are more rights you are far more neutral, ie neither bother you not offer a preference.
I wonder if it is more to do with being left or right handed ? Many years ago I used to play in goal for a few football teams, I was always better at diving and making saves to my left , I am right handed. This was the same with a couple of other goalkeepers I mentioned it to. I also prefer going left on the road as it seems do most of you and most of you will be right handed . Any left handers on here care to comment ?
I think its the camber thing that makes it easier to turn left and hold a line, whereas right puts you on negative camber so sucks you towards the edge. But, its also likely all these things combine: easier to see the road on a left, right handedness, camber, more exit space...
What do you prefer when riding or driving when abroad ? I cant for the life of me remember but I go away at the weekend and will be renting a car so I`ll make a mental note to check.
Marquez is a demon leftie. But that's because of thousands of hours of speedway. You'd have thought he would do some speedway practice going clockwise. Not that he needs it.
BikeTrac state their bike down feature activates at 80 degrees lean. Going by that, I must have been regularly hitting 80+ degrees of lean before I got fed up and switched that feature off.
Up until about 20 years ago, I was falling on the left side as a preference, but my reason was simpler, I grew up with low hanging right sided 4 into 1 pipes and a had a few deck out over the years. But with modern bikes ground clearance getting better and better, pipes that no longer hit the ground and more and more roundabouts popping up in the last couple of decades, I genuinely have no preference now and so love roundabouts as much as the exit off one. Right or left, makes no difference, I'll swing either way (On a bike you weirdo's !! )
I think for track monkeys its a lot to do with flexibility. Most people are tighter in the hips on the left side than the right and so find it easier to balance going left because their right leg opens up nicer.
I drop my head better on right handers, than on left handers. I cross up on lefts, even though I’m more comfortable on lefts.
I'm the same, I can naturally get my head right down by the front wheel when going left but I have to think about it a lot more going right. Its the opposite of what you'd expect but I dont ride on the road much so there's less influence from that side of things.
