Originally Posted by Aeroplane
You put the lockring on by threading in the opposite direction of every other thing you've ever threaded on in your life. Righty-loosey, lefty-tighty.
This assumes you've never threaded on a left pedal or anything else with a left hand thread in your life.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I change pedals WAY more often than I mess with a lockring.