Grease stain a sign of inexperience?
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So, I struggled with this one, too, but I found a little trick - if you hold your hands out, palms facing away, and make a right angle with your index finger and thumb on each hand, the side that makes an uppercase "L" is the Left and the other side is the right, obviously.
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The answer is obvious - it's just a sign that somebody stood in close proximity to a bike. It didn't even have to be their bike, and they may not have even ridden a bike. And, it didn't have to be that day. It could have been the day before, a week before, or even a month before depending on how hygienic they are.
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I'd put my left foot down if I lived in Japan, or the UK, or Australia. I don't.
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Fred mark on calf portends turning the bike upside down to fix a flat or wearing tighty whities next to the chamois pad.
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What's honorable about making the careless mistake of bumping your calf against the chainring?
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I don't look at it as a mistake...I look at it as part of a game...I rubbed my leg against the chain many times while getting on or off the bike or when stopping and putting my right leg down...Cycling can be a messy dirty sport...I don't care what anybody thinks.
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Cycling can be messy and dirty. As someone who spends a fair amount of his saddle time riding in the dirt, I'm certainly not opposed to getting dirty. It is still no excuse to get grease on your leg. However, since you apparently put the wrong foot down to stop, and mount/dismount on the wrong side of the bike, I can see why it's an issue for you.
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Cycling can be messy and dirty. As someone who spends a fair amount of his saddle time riding in the dirt, I'm certainly not opposed to getting dirty. It is still no excuse to get grease on your leg. However, since you apparently put the wrong foot down to stop, and mount/dismount on the wrong side of the bike, I can see why it's an issue for you.
Avoiding the greasy chainring is trivially easy, and something an experienced cyclist does automatically. Regardless of which foot they put down.
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Originally Posted by wolfchild;
..I don't care what anybody thinks.
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Avoiding the greasy chainring is trivially easy, and something an experienced cyclist does automatically. Regardless of which foot they put down.
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