Can you mount your bike from the wrong side..

[palinurus]

..or am I just crap?

I always get on from the left. Bike was leaning up against a wall the other day, thought I'd just hop on from the other side.

I was not successful. It felt dead weird. I thought I was going to fall off just clipping my foot in.

 

[Fnaar]

Oddkins bodkins... I don't think I've ever thunk about it, but I always get on from right.... (which probably mans I have a large penis )
I'm left-handed

 

[longers]

I will try that. Always from the left for me.

Eating a bag of crisps with your wrong hand isn't right either.

 

[Joe24]

Got to be from the left. Never tried to get on from the right, i always move it so i get on from the left. Find it strange to unclip my right foot and put that down and still have my left foot clipped in.

 

[numbnuts]

I don’t know why, but I have always get on from the right and when stopping I unclip my right foot first........and No I’m not weird

 

[palinurus]

Another related thing is this: when I'm being held up by the starter at a TT* I'm happy to be leaning slightly leftwards, somewhat uncomfortable when upright, and very uncomfortable when a bit over to the right. That's probably to do with the same thing, I'm used to getting going from leaning over leftwards a bit and then going upright- but not the other way around.

*and I am one crappy, nervous starter. I should give up, really. Or get a trike.

 

[Night Train]

I usually get on on the right but I don't have a problem getting on from the left.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

I am ambidextorus in both legs

 

[Paulus]

I always get on from the left, it just feels wrong to mount on the wrong side. I also get on my motorbike the same side.

 

[longers]

Having just tried it - no can do.

I'd never thought about it before though.

 

[col]

Having tried it a while ago,i was shocked at how unsteady i was,did feel strange.

 

[snorri]

It feels quite awkward mounting from the opposite side in foreign parts I find.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

I can get on the bike from the "wrong" side, but then a mental block stops me clipping in.

 

[yenrod]

I prefer getting my leg over on the right but can do both sides.

 

[palinurus]

I'm going to have to learn how to do it now.