Why is it?

[Themightyimp]

That I can take left hand bends with no problem,ok I slow a bit for them.But bloody right bends,rounabouts and right turns I bloody hate them and take them way too slow?
Is this a usual happenning for others and they've had to work through it?
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[Ariel Badger]

Your right testicle is smaller than your left, you need to grow your ball a bit for right handers.
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[Snorty]

Possibly because we drive on the left, so there's always a slight camber to the left?

I know what you mean though, my left hand cornering is fluid and feels very natural, when I do right turns it feels very stiff.
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[Lo]

I'm the other way round! I like right corners because I feel like I can see the road better and have more space.

Maybe you're a bit nervous that if you mess up the right corner you would end up off the road, but with the left corner because you have more tarmac to your right your brain thinks it's ok if you don't quite make it?

[goodlifefarm]

I took my bike to Peter Clifford at Actiforce Racing last week, to have the suspension setup correctly. He measured everything, adjusted everything, then measured the rear wheel position in the swingarm. Despite the axle adjusters being bang on the marks on the swingarm both sides, he said the marks on one side were 1.5mm out, so the bike had always been crabing, and would of affected the cornering.

Something as simple as this can affect the bike turning one way and not the other. He showed me how to check it with a tape measure (center of swingarm bolt to adjuster block), but said I should get one of these - https://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/mx-off-road/chain-tools/demon-tweeks-profi-laser-c-a-t-chain-alignment-tool

[Islander]

[goodlifefarm]

[CaNsA]

My lefts are faster and tighter than my rights.

I've always thought its because I'm controlling the throttle and holding the bike up.. if you know what i mean, as i push up on the right bar.

[Islander]

[Tungtvann]

My lefts are as slow as my rights.

[goodlifefarm]

[doggone]

I bet statistically, more bikes are dropped on their right side, due to camber.
But in countries that drive on the right it will the other side.

[thx1138]

I corner better on right handers.

People sometimes comment I "sit funny" on a bike, I'm quite comfortable doing it though, and I smashed my left ribs on a left hand bend crash once.

Might be co-incidence, but it might be I'm slightly scared of left handers.

[ScaredyCat]

Is there a correlation between handedness and which corner direction is preferable?

Straw poll?

I'm left handed. Prefer right hand corners.

Andy
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[drzsta]

Your riding a cruiser. It dosnt want to corner.

[goodlifefarm]

Right handed, prefer lefts.

[karoshi]

Right-handed, prefer lefts

I put it down to crashing just before my bike test turning right on a small roundabout, less confident leaning to the right.
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[Doovy]

That's weird, I was just thinking the same thing this morning.

Right handed, prefer lefts too. Wear on rear tyre is about 5mm from the edge but on the right maybe 1.5cm. Not a lot in it but definitely prefer going over to the left!
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[Shinigami]

right handed & prefer lefts too, though I did break my arm in a spill on a right so could be partly to do with it
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[wizzzard]

A righty here that prefers lefts too. A patterns emerging
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[Aff]

Could be because you're subconsciously thinking that you have a little room to run off when taking lefts, meaning you can take the corner a bit harder/faster, compared to rights where you will generally not have extra road to run wide and may slightly fixate on the hedge/barrier/verge.
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[Recluso]

Time to break the pattern.

Left-hander who prefers lefts

Although since changing my tyres the other day, I'm feeling happier about cornering in general. I suspect part of my dislike of right-handers is the fact that you're effectively steering INTO traffic as it were. Whereas generally on the left you just have a wall. I'm fine on rights if there's no traffic, but I'm twitchy and crap as soon as a car comes along.
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Right-handed and prefer left bends.

I think it's to do with the throttle position, for me at least.
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[TheSmiler]

Normally prefer right hand corners as I can see into them more and get a better idea of the road layout, going left seems weird sometimes. However that could be because I was riding for a few months with a broken lockstop
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