You guys just want to get me wound up.
I'm with Andy on this one, my dad told me that it was thought because of the
heart's position in body, seemed to be more natural.
That's what he heard through the years.Don't know or have any hard data on
this one.
Maybe Michael's post about the German study about left directional wandering
may put some credibility into our tradition of reasons about various and
sundry things cycling coming through the years.
The foto Aldo posted was a novelty race in the old timer's omnium.
at Encino Velodrome in California, back in the '70's.
It was very tricky, the guys wanted to lean the old direction and almost
spilled!
If you try it, it could be very dangerous, so that's my disclaimer.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
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> (Ted might want to refer to this image from his presentation
> at Cirque last year)
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
>
>> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>> From: Jay Sexton <jvs@sonic.net>
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Subject: [CR]Clockwise or no? Paging Ted Ernst
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:31:34 -0700
>>
>> > Ted Ernst hasn't chimed in on this one yet. If anybody
>> > would have the skinny, he would.
>> >
>> > Jay Sexton
>> > Sebastopol, CA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the direction of
>> > racing. In US, almost all oval tracks [for any kind of
>> > racing; foot, bike, motor, roller skates...] seem to go
>> > counterclockwise. Motor "road" racing in the US is
>> > generally clockwise (tho' I remember Upper Marlboro, Md.
>> > was counter but it included part of a banked oval).
>> > European motor racing is usually clockwise including
>> > closed road circuits like Nurburgring, the old bankings
>> > at AVUS and Monza, and open road courses like the Mille
>> > Miglia. The banked Brooklands track in England ran
>> > counterclockwise. English and American horse racing
>> > seem to run counterclockwise generally, but Longchamps
>> > in Paris appears to be clockwise. I cannot deduce a
>> > rule.
>> > David Bean
>> > Arlington, MA
>> > beandk at are-see-enn dot com