Left foot down at stop. Always?
Road Captain
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From: WF-Texas!
I'm not saying I do the training wheels thing where you keep your feet down as you start or stop. I'm just saying that when I roll to a semi-stop, like at a light that's gone green, and I'm waiting for the cars to take off, I try to keep my balance without having to put feet down. I've always been ridiculously graceful and I have the reflexes of a cat- a big fat cat, but a cat none the less. If I can keep from putting feet down, I will. And I don't like one foot down, cause every now and then I'll get that weird vertigo feeling, and I like to know where the ground is. I don't want to look up at a plane, or at a chick beside me and then start to slowly lean away from my down-foot. Just feels better to me having both down. I've never dropped my bike, other than once when I first started riding 20 years ago, so I think I'm doing something right... but definitely not everything.
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How'd I stop? I wiggled my nose like Samantha from Bewitched
I'm not saying I do the training wheels thing where you keep your feet down as you start or stop. I'm just saying that when I roll to a semi-stop, like at a light that's gone green, and I'm waiting for the cars to take off, I try to keep my balance without having to put feet down. I've always been ridiculously graceful and I have the reflexes of a cat- a big fat cat, but a cat none the less. If I can keep from putting feet down, I will. And I don't like one foot down, cause every now and then I'll get that weird vertigo feeling, and I like to know where the ground is. I don't want to look up at a plane, or at a chick beside me and then start to slowly lean away from my down-foot. Just feels better to me having both down. I've never dropped my bike, other than once when I first started riding 20 years ago, so I think I'm doing something right... but definitely not everything.
I'm not saying I do the training wheels thing where you keep your feet down as you start or stop. I'm just saying that when I roll to a semi-stop, like at a light that's gone green, and I'm waiting for the cars to take off, I try to keep my balance without having to put feet down. I've always been ridiculously graceful and I have the reflexes of a cat- a big fat cat, but a cat none the less. If I can keep from putting feet down, I will. And I don't like one foot down, cause every now and then I'll get that weird vertigo feeling, and I like to know where the ground is. I don't want to look up at a plane, or at a chick beside me and then start to slowly lean away from my down-foot. Just feels better to me having both down. I've never dropped my bike, other than once when I first started riding 20 years ago, so I think I'm doing something right... but definitely not everything.
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I normally put my left foot down first followed by my right. If I expect to be underway shortly I won't bother to put my right one down.
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