Originally Posted by
cny-bikeman
Thank you so much for catching this. It's now very obvious to me that the poster was intentionally claiming those exact words were used multiple times when he knew that was not the case. I'm sure he he did so purely to cause trouble, and in fact was not truly confused. I myself did not catch the feigned nature of his question, and foolishly treated his query as genuine.
Gosh, I hope you're kidding.
Learning Here, "clockwise" is used from whatever point of view allows you to look most directly at the barrel, pedal spindle, BB cup, etc from the center of the axis around which the part turns. As if you were looking at the head of a screw so it looks like a circle.
People that use tools all the time take it for granted how seemingly arbitrary orientation can be to questions of direction.