Logical (???) reason for curving preferences

["Leatherbiker" <leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While living in Scandinavia, I went on a motorcycle course at evening
school.
the type where you learn to change the oil, learn about riding techniques
and then spend a very cold and miserable evening down at the Kwikfit centre
removing your back tyre (which I've never done since BTW). I did learn a lot
on the course, as it was run by an active motorcyle instructor who worked
for the police and military.

He taught us a lot about which brakes to use, and in what sequence and
proportions, in what conditions.
But he also said that most people had a natural facility for cornering one
way rather than the other - said it had to do with being left or
righthanded. I think the theory was that if you're right-handed, turning
left is easier, because controlling the hand furthest in towards you is
easier, whereas controlling the hand that is (literally) out on the end of a
limb is more diffult. And since you have better coordination and control in
one hand as a general rule, this is reflected in your cornering skills.

Anyone know a physiologist to check the theory out?

I'm righthanded and fine lefthand corners much easier to negotiate and get
my knee down in than righthand curves.
The one crash I have ever had in my life that wasn't caused by other traffic
happened on a right curve when I took it too wide and ended up on the
gravelly part of a motoryway feed road - case in point?

Tim


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