Getting your leg over

[s7ephanie]

I stand to the left of the bike and put my right leg over, tried getting on bike from other side and it seemed really strange. Do you always start from the same side?

 

[Rob3rt]

Wow............... this one is nearly as bad as the "which hand do you use to reach for your bidon" thread!

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Yep, motorbikes were the same.

Wow............... this one is nearly as bad as the "which hand do you use to reach for your bidon" thread!

What hand do you scratch your arse with? thread needed tbh

 

[hobbitonabike]

Left side...right leg over! Same every time. And it's right hand for the bidon

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Always left hand side (never chain side), right leg over........tried left hand side with left leg over, but didn't seem to work

 

[Maz]

Always mount the bike from the left. Probably because traffic flows on the left side of the road in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Maybe in France you should mount from the right.

 

[biggs682]

ambidextrous me i can mount either side given the chance

 

[numbnuts]

Right side of bike, left leg over

 

[ArDee]

As the others have said always; standing on left with right leg over; but, as from the right with the left leg over would mean I'd be standing in the road - I think that its safer that way.

Also since having a hip replacement, I need to lay the bike over towards me a bit.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It depends which side of me the bike is on, i.e. usually right leg over (because of the traffic flow in the UK).
I do tend to clip in first on the left though.

 

[Tight Git]

As most do - left side and right leg over. Also used to use the same for a motorbike (sidestand leans it that way) and a horse - try mounting a horse from the other side, it's very strange :-)

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally find myself wondering whether or not I should mount from the rear, but in all honesty, that approach has never quite had the attraction that more conventional mounts provide.

 

[Over The Hill]

Right side of bike, left leg over

Left Footer on bike too??



Those old 1950's films showed cyclists swinging their leg forwards over the handlebars. Never tried it that way myself.

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally find myself wondering whether or not I should mount from the rear, but in all honesty, that approach has never quite had the attraction that more conventional mounts provide.

Oh sorry, I was thinking about sexuial intercourse. This is the cycling forum. Doh! Wrong window.

Stand at right, left leg over. Right leg down when I stop.

Reach for bidon always with right hand, though I am (mostly) left-handed.

 

[MontyVeda]

right side, left left over (I'm cack handed)... I'd probably just fall over trying it the other way... I can't even push my bike comfortably from the 'wrong' side.