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Old 19-07-09, 10:47 AM   #21
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My wife can only mount my bike from the right for some reason, doesn't feel comfortable doing it from left
I can remember some little nazi salesman coming over to me once in DK and screaming 'NEVER get on a bike from the right' when i'd sat on one from the right due to its left-hand neighbour being too close to squeeze in comfortably.

He reacted like i'd dropped my kecks and curled one on the shop floor. Nob-end.
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Old 19-07-09, 10:49 AM   #22
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isnt it because the kick start was usually on the right so the stand would have been in the way?
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Old 19-07-09, 12:17 PM   #23
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isnt it because the kick start was usually on the right so the stand would have been in the way?
Sounds sensible to me!
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Old 19-07-09, 01:09 PM   #24
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gotta be something to do with most people being right handed...
That's the one, listen to him.
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Old 19-07-09, 03:58 PM   #25
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isnt it because the kick start was usually on the right so the stand would have been in the way?
Is it just me or is this just going to inevitably lead us onto why was the kick start on the right? and then why is the engine orientated how it is and so on until we have deconstructed motorbikes piece by piece until there is nothing left?
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Old 19-07-09, 04:18 PM   #26
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I cant be ars*d to read it all... Something to do with it being easier to put it on that side?

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Old 19-07-09, 05:47 PM   #27
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You know how it is, you can't sleep so you lie there pondering life's little mysteries, and this one has really got me wondering.

Why do all bikes have the side stand on the left? Yes, it works fine for us in this country..........you park up at the side of the road and your bike leans away from the traffic..........but considering most countries in the world drive on the right it means that their bikes will be leaning towards the traffic.

Not an earth-shattering thing to think about, but it's got me pondering.

Does anyone know the answer, or have another inponderable question?

Have you tried sleeping pills? or a bottle of wine?, solves all these little problems. lol.
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Old 19-07-09, 05:50 PM   #28
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isnt it because the kick start was usually on the right so the stand would have been in the way?
My Morini has a left side kick start, and side stand.
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Old 19-07-09, 07:12 PM   #29
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Is it just me or is this just going to inevitably lead us onto why was the kick start on the right? and then why is the engine orientated how it is and so on until we have deconstructed motorbikes piece by piece until there is nothing left?
Kickstart not always on the right, two spring to mind immediately;

Morini.


And BMW, but I can't find a clear picture of one of them.

There are others too, I recall a trialy that had a kicker on the left rotating forwards.
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Old 19-07-09, 08:47 PM   #30
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Its the horse thing that naturally migrated to two wheels, probably
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