Sending my Norton to Japan

yes - we Antipodeans and the Japanese and the British all drive on the right side of the road which is the left side of the road not the wrong side of the road that you continental Americans and Europeans drive on which is the right side of the road...

Since we say 'counter clock wise' instead of 'anti clock wise', can we call you antipodians counterpodians? At least when we're on the right side of the road, which ever side you choose.

Even in the US Virgin Islands they drive on the British side. I guess it's a hold over.

But my Norton never seems to want to go on the other side. Now which way does that maelstrom go?

Dave
69S

Hmmm not sure about Ducati's!

CJ, I seem to have successfully hijacked your thread. Sorry, but I wish you good luck and many happy adventures in your new location! Maybe you should get a bike that shifts on the right!

Russ

The story I've heard about which side of the road to drive goes back to Napoleon's time. The majority of people are right-handed, so when horse-riding soldiers using swords to fight with rode towards each other, they went right-side to right side. Napoleon trained whole squadrons of soldiers to fight left-handed. As they rode against the British, they came up on the opposite side to their sword hands and wiped them out.

After that, the French decided to ride on the right and it carried over into the motor vehicle age. Since Europe is all connected through land borders, the other countries followed the French style.

Gosh Frank almost skipped this historical gem but saw your name so had to listen in. Its taken me a long time working up factory Commando quirks to notice that indeed there is a slight bias to fling to LH than to RH, and it ain't because I'm LH'd.
Recently study on why LH'rs are not genetically eliminated find they had a surprise advantage against RH biased fighters.
Early Amerkican cycles commonly had LH throttle so commoner pistol hands could shoot to either side of the path. When i've traveled - driven on opposite sides, I was pleased I did it pretty well 'right' off but on return home had a number of freak outs to remember which side to hold to out of the blue going over crests and blinds and intersections.

I spent a couple of weeks in few weeks in Yakota at the end of '70. Don't think I enjoyed it, I was recovering from an OH-6 incident in Nam. Had it not been for a couple of F-4's, wouldn't have made.