For years, for as long as I can remember, even, profile #depictions
of #bicycles, to my ND brain, _HAVE_TO_ be traveling right to left, front wheel to the left, as it were. The old Bicycle Tasmania logo was a happy cyclist, scooting on and travelling to the left, my design. The newsletter masthead, a winged wheel, wheel to the left, wing to the right. My teeth get set on edge when I see a depiction of a bicycle, front to the right, even photographs.

I just figured out why.

I've started a trike design, and as I pictured the initial CAD positioning, I realised that I had an image in my mind's eye of a recumbent tadpole trike travelling, you guessed it, to the left. In that instant, I also realised why that is "the way all bicycles and tricycles must face" - I'm Australian. I mount and "scoot-on" from the left, because we ride and drive on the left here.

It's how I approach my bike, park my bike, the side I mount on, the only side I see, unless working on the transmission. I even hang my right-hand panniers by reaching over the bike from the left, because I can see the hooks better, but hanging the left one is easier, anyway, because it goes on first and the bike then leans on me.

Also, hence my avatar.

#thatisall

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