Re: [CR]Why are drive trains always on the rider's right side?

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:22:02 -0800
From: "Jack Fortune" <jfortune@uoregon.edu>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Why are drive trains always on the rider's right side?


Hugh Thornton wrote:
>
> Because bicycles were ridden on the left hand side of the road

In some parts of the world they were, in other they would have been ridden on the right.
> and mounted from the left,

I think this is the key - I suspect the custom of mounting from the left was a carry-over from horse riding.
> it obviously made sense to have the dirty drivetrain on the
> right hand side of the bike, away from the rider when he/she was not actually
> mounted on the bike.

Jack Fortune