Originally Posted by
Rick
The rant part of my last post was my idea of fun. I rode small dirt bikes when I was a kid and motorcycles when I was in the Army. I had my first concussion from going over the bars on my first bicycle with hand brakes on Christmas morning at the age of 10 The family doctor was into bicycling and took an interest in my activates. He and a friend wired my now more expensive bicycle for the right hand on the front brake. I was used to those dirt bikes and the doc had his daughter teach me how to properly use the brakes. She was my riding partner until they figured out that I had a crush on her. Then they sent over the old Gezer for a riding partner.
funny stories.
you'll laugh, but how I've always remembered that left pedals are reverse thread is that I recall the stuff like your grandmother and how "left " was "wrong", and that's how I remember it's not "normal"