Can you mount your bike from the wrong side..

[Noodley]

Is it due to riding on the left? "Continentals" may prefer the right...

 

[buggi]

i think it is a balance thing due to the dominant side of your brain, like being right and left handed

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i do it from the right (chainset side), even though i'm right handed. i clip in left foot first, and lead with it when at the start of a tt.

 

[dantheman]

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

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

never noticed.. -where do i find my "wrong hand"??- i can only find my left and right hand...- or am i just weird?

 

[dantheman]

i get on from the left, pedal off with my right foot, and only feel comfortable at standstill with right foot down.. i also find it much easier to ride with only left hand on handlebars, as opposed to right hand, which feels a bit wobbly..- and i am right handed..

 

[Fiona N]

I can get on the bike from either side (courtesy of many years living in foreign parts, I think) but I do hate having to push off with the right foot (i.e. with left foot already clipped in).

More oddly, I can only get onto the adductor machine (the one where you squeeze your thighs together) at the gym from the left side

 

[HLaB]

I think I can get on the bike from both sides, I've never really thought about it. 99 times out of a 100 (or more) I'd get on from the left side as this feels right to me.

 

[Joe24]

I can ride with either hand on the handlebars and feel safe.
Got to push off with my let foot.
But my dominent foot changes. When i was younger i would push with my left foot on a scooter but i kick a ball with my right foot.
I'm right handed and rubbish with my left hand.

 

[Fnaar]

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

Are we still talking about bicycles at this point?

 

[Keith Oates]

Fnaar, I think so, although I can never be sure. However I'm another that mounts the bicycle from the left side and clips the right foot in first. I do this regardles of which side of the road the traffic is driving (riding)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mortiroloboy]

I mount up by slinging my left leg over the saddle, when I unclip I unclip right foot first, then I sling my left leg over the handle bars.

 

[Dave5N]

never noticed.. -where do i find my "wrong hand"??- i can only find my left and right hand...- or am i just weird?

The wrong one is the one that isn't right.

I can do either side. Frankly amazed people can't.

As a very talented man once observed: what difference does it make?

 

[Amanda P]

No.

Well, yes, but I warn you, I'll fall off.

 

[Amanda P]

To understand that, you may have to remind yourself of the original question.

It's right at the top of the page, if you can be bothered to scroll up that far.

 

[Zoiders]

Always from the left, never tried it from the IIRC, but I will tommorow

The strange thing is that I ride a snow board or skate board goofy footed but I am right handed