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Old 08-10-19 | 10:38 PM
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This bike is for sale in my area,Panasonic,Were bikes actually made with the cranks on the left side or is this photo reversed?
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Old 08-10-19 | 10:47 PM
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Someone told him his picture was bad because it was from the left side.
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Old 08-10-19 | 11:02 PM
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The digital image was horizontally flip. Here it is flip back.

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Old 08-11-19 | 05:34 AM
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Old 08-11-19 | 12:01 PM
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The digital image was horizontally flip. Here it is flip back.
How do you know? I didn't see anything in the picture that was a dead giveaway, though I guess it could be something in the data. I once installed an archibald to 3-piece crank adapter backwards in a bike. It was in there so tight and I was only running it as a fixed gear anyway, so I just left it and flipped the wheel and it worked fine.
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How do you know? I didn't see anything in the picture that was a dead giveaway, though I guess it could be something in the data. I once installed an archibald to 3-piece crank adapter backwards in a bike. It was in there so tight and I was only running it as a fixed gear anyway, so I just left it and flipped the wheel and it worked fine.
Some people do left side drive with fixed gear for safety reasons -- the cog will never break loose under deceleration. However, putting a left-threaded pedal and crank on the right side, and vice-versa, is a recipe for pedals unscrewing and damaging the crank threads.
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The flag on that green mailbox is on the "wrong" side in the first photo; another indication that photo was flipped.
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How do you know?
Front derailleur clamp.
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Old 08-11-19 | 02:47 PM
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How do you know?
Nobody makes a left-hand derailer.

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Canada flag was definitely reversed.
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Canada flag was definitely reversed.
Well caught...come to think of it, so were the saddle, fenders, and brake levers.

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Canada flag was definitely reversed.


Just what I thought as well!
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