Do You Favor Left or Right Turns?
 

Are you more comfortable with left turns or right turns? I am at least 10x more comfortable turning left than right. Of course, all my local tracks run clockwise, dammit. :lol:

I know part of the problem is I don't like having my body cross over my throttle hand, so I tense up some and end up more upright than I want to be.

The other part is I've low-sided in 2 right turns and can't look back and pinpoint what went wrong. The last one, a good 100mph+ wash-out at VIR took me completely off-guard. I just remember thinking "are my forearms extending? Why is the front end going away from me? Oh, I must be crashing. (enter sounds of metal and plastic vs. concrete). Yup, I'm crashing. Son of a bitch."

I also prefer left on the street because they're nowhere near as blind (some of the downhill rights in the mountains you can't see 0.2 seconds ahead of yourself) and if I go wide I'll head toward the shoulder, not the oncoming traffic lane.

Same reason to some degree with the throttle hand. My right knee is also shot so it doesn't move as well as my left when it's close to the ground. My lean angles are the same left to right but I always touch down a lot more with my left knee. This last trip to the gap, I wore out a left slider and only touched my right down a few times when we were really getting on it.

I'm pretty much the same. Even at Barber I didn't touch my right knee down until the 2nd day. I was still running fast laps before that, I just don't get over as far and, like you, my right knee and hip just don't like to move that way.

I'm backward. I prefer to go right. I like having my throttle hand on the inside, and my left knee and hip have some issues, so I just move better going right. Seems like most of the riders I know prefer left, though.

I am the same with left handers mostly because of the crossing over the throttle hand thing. Weird part is I have got my right knee down, but not my left, yet.

I prefer rights, but I've really never analyzed why. :lol:

I have heard there's some correlation between a rider's dominant hand and their turning skill/comfort, but I don't know if it's true (and since I'm kinda ambidextrous, I'm not a good case study :lol: )

I prefer rights, but i always wear out the left side of my tires before the right, so i dont know if i'm any faster in the rights, or just like them better

I had a small highside buck 8yrs or so ago into a right hand corner after hitting a patch of sand. I managed to stay on the bike after checking out the headlight upside down. I came back down onto the seat left foot hit the ground, right foot his the rear brake locking that up allowing me to slide across the apex into the nice comfy ditch facing the wrong way. I never did go down or fall over, did stall out though. I sat there for a second and said to myself "damn that was close!" I thumbed the start buttom and eased back home.

2 weeks later I went to the Gap for the first time, and every right hand corner made me see it happening again, and spooked the poop out of me. Just recently in the last 2yrs I have been able to enter rights handers with the same confidence as I do with left handers. I do still have some moments though.

I prefer left handers but my home track is mainly right handers. :(

When I had someone ride behind me to critique.....he said I was much better at right handers. Strange.

lefts are preferred

I'm more comfortable turning to the left for some reason.

I'm way more comfortable turning right. My body position just feels better when I go right. Left I get all fucked up.

I like lefts better, because pushing on left bar, you don't have to worry about the throttle.

Without a doubt, left. Don't even think about it, and just go. On right handers I find myself (over)thinking it alot of the time. Pisses me off.

I PREFER lefts.

However, most of my crashes have been on left-handers, I go through 2-3x as many right pucks and I am generally faster on right-handed tracks. :idk:

While I mentally prefer to turn left, apparently I am better at turning right. :scratch:

slightly Right... not sure why this is but it's minute enough that I don't really worry about it.

I prefer rights, but it's because of my fucked up technique. I pull on the outside bar instead of pushing on the inside one to turn. I pull on the left bar to go right and my throttle hand is relaxed so I have a better feel for it. When I'm pulling on the throttle side to go left I don't have the same kind of throttle control since I have tension on that bar. Hmm . . . maybe I'll start pulling to go right and pushing to go left, that way my left hand can do all the turning so my right has better control of the throttle, lol

used to be lefts, now it seems I'm more comfortable with rights BUT I don't get the right over as far as the left:?:

No preference. I can see better through left handers. But I'm equally slow and comfortable through either.

Lol.....all this time that I've favored left turns, and I never knew that the location of the throttle hand might be a factor.

I do much better on right turns. I still get spooked on left turns when a car or motorcycle appears to be coming at me around a blind left corner. I guess I flinch or let up a little when I'm leaning left, and it messes up my line.

I think I'm equal at both. Some days I suck on the left and other days it is the right so it evens out. The one time I drug my knee was on a right hander. Ironic part was that it was my hardest turn to get through smoothly. I worked and worked on entrance, etc, guess it paid off.

I push the left bar for lefts and pull the left bar for rights.

I prefer right handers :idk:

Oh, you mean like exit ramps? Coincidence, I'm sure. :p

Exit ramps, traffic circles, right-hand turns on surface streets are generally tighter than lefts... take your pick :dthumb: Another flatlander who prefers rights here.

So after a great ride yesterday, I found out that I prefer right handers.

Join the club

I prefer left. Not sure why I'm just more comfy with them but I'm still learning so time will tell if that changes.

makes me wonder how many of us are right or left handed?

I'm a converted from left hander to right, I actually can do everything with either hand.

I was thinking the same thing.

100% right handed. Left hand can't do anything but type on the left side of the keyboard and push/pull the handlebars. Definitely not useful for jerkin the gerkin.

I used to prefer rights... Then I read on a forum how most people favor lefts... Been a lefty pretty much ever since...

How do you work your mouse when crankin it then?

:lmao::lmao:

:lol

I kind of wondered this too. Maybe that is why I don't favor one over the other since my hands are fairly equal?