right turn vs left turn

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First season I was feeling clumsy with left turns, running wide on open road curves. Not so much on street turns, but still....
What helped was #1 visual - picking targets to lead me through the curve because I seemed to need more concentration to do that going left.
#2 - taking my right hand almost completely off the grip so my left arm - not hand - had to be entirely controlling the steer.
While doing that on a sweeper that lasted ten seconds or longer, I could safely play with the push from my left arm and tighten or widen the steer, in effect "teaching" my left arm how much push it needed. Also thinking of the effort coming from up around the elbow and not down at the hand helped a bunch.

One of the first things I noticed was my left arm hadn't been really putting as much pressure on the bar as I thought it was when I used both hands. The right arm was picking up the slack so to speak, and not very well.
 
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sircastic said:
A lot of people have problems with right turns because of their hand position on the throttle. If you keep your hand in the same position on the throttle when turning as when riding straight your wrist gets twisted which is uncomfortable and doesn't allow you to lean off as much. Try holding the throttle on the end when turning right, as if your turning a door knob, it straightens out your arm and make it a lot more comfortable.
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Why are people still giving bad advice after this post? this is what we call, the answer.
 
i used to have this problem and discovered that it was because my right nut hung lower then my left nut and caused me to be off balance during turns.

i corrected the problem by shoeing my self in the nuts with a good hard kick. my nuts dangle much more evenly
now and i find myself doing equally well on both right and left turns
 
Besides the good advice given here (push steering, elbow touching knee), train your brain off the bike. Touch left thumb and left forefinger then tap or curl toes on right foot. Then same maneuver for right hand left foot. Alternating one side, next side. Two or three mins per day and you will train your brain to become more ambidextrous.
 
Or you can pat yourself on the head with your left hand and rub your belly with your right hand!
while standing on one leg.

:lmao:
 
I've thought this problem too, since I also favour left.
I knew about the intersection preferences, what with driving on the right/correct side of the road.
But out here in the backwoods, I have also realized that from the right lane almost all right hand curves, in the country are blind corners, while the left hand curves generally have greater visibility/sight lines. I know that is why I favour generally left handers out here.
All things being equal, sight lines, etc. I tend not to favour either side. I use the same body position on either curve.
It is only in the trees and hedgerows and hills of the back roads that I really, really tend to favour the left.
 
My rear tire says that I can turn left a lot better than I can right...
But I'm improving.
 
I have no problems turning. my issue is with going straight! ;)
 
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