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Never really thought about this until I started looking at all of your photos, but perhaps it's been discussed before

In the UK we ride/drive on the left. I've always assumed that is why motorbikes have their prop stands on the left. When you drop the stand, that's the side you get off the bike, and then back on again. So here in good old blighty it's the side away from the traffic if you're mounting or dismounting at the side of the road - thus not getting off into the path of any passing traffic. The same goes for the use of a centre stand, all from the left.

So for you guys riding on the right, do you walk out into the road or jump on the bike from the 'high' side to avoid the hazards of passing traffic ?

Just a pointless idle thought

Well everyone always says Americans are cowboys, so I mount mine like a horse from the left. OR I just run up from behind it and and jump, putting my hands on the back of the seat and plop down in the saddle Just like in the movies for a quick getaway.

(06-03-2016, 03:22 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Well everyone always says Americans are cowboys, so I mount mine like a horse from the left. OR I just run up from behind it and and jump, putting my hands on the back of the seat and plop down in the saddle Just like in the movies for a quick getaway.

This is Pops gettin outa town:





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(06-03-2016, 03:22 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Well everyone always says Americans are cowboys, so I mount mine like a horse from the left. OR I just run up from behind it and and jump, putting my hands on the back of the seat and plop down in the saddle Just like in the movies for a quick getaway.

I do this, too, but at my age I have to put a step stool down behind the rear tire which requires my henchman to pick it up. I usually get away, but I've been going through henchmen like sh*t through a goose.

(we mount from the left just like you do 99% of the time).

Thats it! The second guy's way

All seriousness aside I always mount it from the left because the leather rifle scabbard is in the right hand side. That way I don't scratch up the Winchesters stock with my spurs.

Unless there is something blocking me, I always get on my bike from the left. Goes back to the days when I rode horses as a kid. They get a bit skittish if you approach from the right....I guess that I always figured that my bike would start bucking & kicking too. LOL

I have always dismounted and mounted from the left side.
Unless there was some oddball situation or safety issue, then I would go to the right side.

I always mount from Left...including my GoldWing. (That's what she said) haHa


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