Originally Posted by
volosong
Don't know if it is because of my left handedness, but I mount my bike from the right side. Don't think I could from the left without falling over. I've heard various statistics that the percentage of the world's population that are left-handed is between 4% and 10%. We've had to adapt to a right-handed world. (I get on a horse from the left side; when I played baseball/softball, I had more bat control from the right side but more power from the left side; and have always kicked balls with the right foot/leg, but swing a tennis racket from the left side.)
Baseball, hockey, golf, etc. are interesting cases, because they favor cross-wired folks whose dominant eye and hand are on opposite side of the body. These are the same folks who may tend toward dyslexia. I, too, am left-left-right dominant, but with the added complication that an unstable left kneecap and slight weakness of the left quads may have played a role.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069