Why do track cyclists always ride anticlockwise?

[gaz]

Maybe it's because they're racing "against the clock"?




Ok, ok, i'm leaving too......

Haha that was good though.

 

[festival]

Could be something to do with most of us favouring our right side, hand, foot etc

Therefore, the theory is if you walk in a straight line for long enough, your right side bias will mean your route via's to the left due to the right foot taking slightly longer steps.

 

[screenman]

Chariot days, most people were right handed so that is the hand the whip was held in making left hand turns easier.

Now I just guessed that so it could well be wrong as I have a massive failure rate at this forum stuff.

 

[snorri]

It's a mainland Europe thing, they are used to going round roundabouts anti-clock so clockwise round a track would confuse them.(Maybe )

 

[Fab Foodie]

On the left-hand, right hand thing, most supermarkets are designed with the door on the rhs so people enter and naturally have to turn left .... apparently it's more comfortable to turn to the left than to the right.

 

[ColinJ]

Er, because if they didn't, they would crash into the riders coming the other way?

 

[Red Light]

Coriolis Effect

 

[Philip Whiteman]

Well, it looks as though the mystery still remains.

Coriolis Effect

Now try and explain the Coriolis Effect? I bet that most people could not answer.

 

[classic33]

Possible answers
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Track-Field-2263/Race-Tracks.htm

 

[Red Light]

Now try and explain the Coriolis Effect? I bet that most people could not answer.

And many that do answer will get it wrong with talk of bathtubs and toilets


Coriolis Explanation

 

[asterix]

Because everyone else does. You'd get some awful pile ups otherwise.

 

[ColinJ]

Because everyone else does. You'd get some awful pile ups otherwise.

Er, because if they didn't, they would crash into the riders coming the other way?

 

[Rollon]

It's because the Earth turns the same way looking from the North Pole. If they rode clockwise they would be finished before they set off.
Dave.

 

[Cyclopathic]

It's because the Earth turns the same way looking from the North Pole. If they rode clockwise they would be finished before they set off.
Dave.

I thought it had something to do with time travel.

 

[asterix]

Yup, fools never differ!