Why do bikes have stands on the left side
Back to the Middle Ages...
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Why Side Stand Always on the Left
Mr. Ride-a-lot (who tends to be right-handed) carries the hanging arm to the left. He climbs to the height of his horse ... on the left. This is why it is easier for him to throw his right leg over the horse than his left, thanks to this pretty piece of pointed steel and thirty pounds.
After a few more generations, the practice of riding a horse from the left became "the right through practice" and everyone trained this way from the moment they reached the horse's belly.
The first bicycle crutch was unreal in 1869 and went to the left because it was the usual direction for cyclists to ride their horses, supporting training equipment that, of course, came from riding.
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When the bikes arrived in the late 1800s, they were very small compared to bicycles with small engines. In the first decade, they started to gain a lot more weight, so the normal support became a U-shaped arch at the back of the trees until the 1930s. By 1940, however, larger motorcycles like the Indian Scout had evolved to use the left side stand.
Reasons for Bike have Stand on the Left Side
Motor Cycles are Invented by Germans
They used to follow left-hand driving, so if a rider parks his motorcycle aside it would lean towards the left side and will leave a little extra space for the road and can assure safety from vehicles passing by. Later countries like India and China became game players in manufacturing motorcycles and followed the left side stand for the same reason.
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In addition to that, there are mostly 85% of people in the world are right dominated.
So, at the ages of kick-start mechanism to start the motorcycle, where the look integrates the kick- rod to the right face, and not to cause interference between the kick rod and the side stand, so to overcome this disadvantage, the side stand is formed to be assembled on the left face.
