Hello all...I was mostly joking, I'm aware that it's difficult to move away from your country's established systems...we'll see if this so called "système métrique" ever catches on. It's nothing to loose our heads over
Anyway, I had a little bit of time to (attempt) to nail down the thread direction:

left side of the bike appears to be righty tighty...

As does the right side (my fingers pointing in the thread direction)