Originally Posted by francophile

Makes sense. I guess I'm ambidextrous or it's become learned second nature. Maybe it's personal preference. I do find left-handed braking on the front more sensible and safer for me. It's my weaker grip, thus I'm less likely to clamp down so hard I go over the bars.

In a similar vein, I had to re-learn how to eat in my 20s because my parents taught me the typical American "zig-zag" style of fork/knife eating which is super inefficient, switching fork from left to right hand after cutting. It took several weeks of practice, but I switched to "hybrid" style left-hand-only on forking and I can't imagine going back. Within 4-6 months I had amazing granular control over forking, better than my right, and I eat more gracefully and efficiently than before.