Question.
If I ride a skateboard goofy foot. Right foot on the board, kick with left, why is that the way that it's the norm to mount a cross bike? Wouldn't a "normal" person want their left foot on the bike first and last step be with the right?
Do you have to break "normal" so that you are on the clean side of the bike?
I like this observation and question in relation to skateboards/scooters.
I'm goofy foot and kick mongo on a skateboard so I'm kicking with my front(left) foot. A person riding regular kicking never mongo would be doing the same but standing with the left shoulder forward while coasting. So logically it does make sense that I'd be used to jumping off of my kick foot.
When we we shoot layups playing basketball however a 'right handed shot' is achieved by jumping off the left foot. With that I associate right handedness to left foot jumping which would favor getting on the left(NDS) side of the bike which is mostly standard.
I am right handed, favor jumping off my left foot for normal things but mount my bike from the right (drive) side. AN EXPLANATION!?
1. I may possibly just have picked that side randomly in the beginning of time and am just now programmed to swing my left leg over the saddle.
2. I started on the drive side because I
always lock drive side out so it requires less effort to get on the bike and ride away since I approached the bike from that side for years and years.
<---I think this most likely started the habit.
3. There is a correlation between this all but I'm just living all the way at the tip of the bell curve.