Originally Posted by
ScottRyder
The typical person, right handed or not, would mount his noble steed from the left (non drive side) of the horse. Here's a good reason why from Answer.com:
"It is traditional to mount and dismount a horse from the left side the reasoning behind this goes back to when people carried swords, the swords mostly hung on the left hip they couldn't mount a right side because the sword got in the way so became traditional to mount from the left."
I'm sure you can mount a horse from the right, I've never met one but I found it interesting it does have history. And I always mount my bike from the left side, left over lessons from "Old Glue"
Scott
There's a lot of this swashbuckling stuff that runs our "handed" lives. When in Ireland I learned that in castles the spiral stairs all went in one direction (counter-clockwise going up?) so that right-handed defenders working from top down would have the advantage over righties approaching from below. And of course, why the English drive on the left -- to facilitate swordplay between righties
en passant.