[AJG]

Driving on the left hand side of the road in the UK when I negotiate a left hand bend I'm on the inside of the curve. Conversely with a right hand bend I'm on the outside of the curve, Right! I began to wonder quite some time ago why I negotiated a left hand bend more comfortably, especially considering it is the inside of the curve. Hmmm. So one day when driving about I took a right hand curve and didn't feel comfortable. But I noted what I was doing. On left hand bends it's natural to have your right hand dominating the steering wheel. Why? Because that hand moves a greater distance as you steer the bend and is better positioned for control. The opposite is true for right hand bends, the left hand should dominate. Guess what I was doing, using my right hand for both directions! Doh! Didn't realise I was till that point! Did the correct thing on the next right hander and what a difference! Occasionally I still slip into this bad habit especially when I'm just doddling about. But at least the mystery is solved! It's worked for me! Maybe some of you other guys are stupid like me, sorry, I meant let down by slightly poor technique. It's one to watch out for.

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[Rap]

Well it's nice to see you back! Left right, how's that go again? Lol. I will watch that when I drive!

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[tamathumper]

That's all well and good if you use your arms, but I drive with my knees, so which one do I use?

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[AJG]

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That's all well and good if you use your arms, but I drive with my knees, so which one do I use?

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Ah! Your from that group of Sesamoid drivers! So its a kneecap and possibly a handicap. Right! Or is it left! Where are your hands. Are your knuckles are dragging on the carpet? Poor boy or is that poor hominid.

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[Langley968]

[quote name='tamathumper' timestamp='1331857507' post='123350']

That's all well and good if you use your arms, but I drive with my knees, so which one do I use?

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Thanks for the chuckle! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/icon_lol1.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[tamathumper]

@AJG, probably closer to homunculus <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.png" class="smilie" alt="" />



@Langley968, I aim to please <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[lbpesq]

Hands? You guys use HANDS!!?? And here I was, believing there was a simple explanation why men are generally better drivers!

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[craigawoodman]

A simple explaination as to why men are better drivers - it is all about intertia. We dont have another 10lbs of boobs that we have to push around along with our arms and steering wheel. Not so good in an accident as we don't have double sets of airbags to protect our chest. The additional interia also explains why we are better in corners as well and we don't wear tights shoes that constrict blood flow (or bleed for a week every 4 and therefore are anemic.

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[Rap]

You sound like a disciple of Earl Butz! Lol

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[DaveN]

10lbs? I wish, AA camp here <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/tongue.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Rap]

4 lbs for large breasts. Google it

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[tamathumper]

Men are better navigators because we're more apt to believe an inch is a mile.

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[craigawoodman]

That is why women cannot be surveyors - for thousands of years, they have been told that around 4 inches is in reality 12.

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[AJG]

Easy now craigawoodman! 10lb boobs! Really! You know some big girls obviously! Being Scots male chauvinism comes second nature, almost obligatory one might say but you took that too far. Have a few tinnies and settle down.

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[craigawoodman]

AJG - I have two daughters. The eldest one is now 11 and has been coming to motorsports for a while and loves passenger rides. She can drive the golf cart pretty well and left foot brakes. She knows that at 14 you are eligible for a CAMS licence and I would have to sit in the passenger seat while she drives my car around. We have had a couple of goes at go karts and she is keen to try them competitively. She also loves being on the back of the motorbike.



I temper this however, in that there has never been a really competitive woman (i.e. consistantly beating men) in motorsport. I don't know if it is the anger gene or testostorone - oh what separates the men from the boys and the girls - perhaps it is a lack of preservation gene or the lets push it too far gene, or the adrenaline junky gene, but there seems to be something wired differently in men that women - well from my era anyway.



My wife is a lead foot as well.



With the opportunities now available for women, perhaps, this will all change. It seems that there are lots of what we would call gender roles changing. If it is like everything else, women will be asking for female quotas to be mandated soon for motorsport anyway. Perhaps, then there will be buffed up men flaunting their six pack ab's at the front of the grid for the women drivers and spectators. Not sure I will still be watching though.

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[AJG]

Obviously you haven't heard of Sabine Schmitz craigawoodman! Now she can drive!

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[craigawoodman]

AJG - yes, she can drive, but can she really? Driving one track all of the time, is not motor racing and pitting your skills against all comer's. I know motor racing has an element of money factor to it as well, but if you are the best driver, you normally end up in the best car. What I am looking for is a woman who has consistently been #1 or even #2 in motorsport (dirt bikes, motogp, F1, Nascar, GT1, LeMan's series, etc, etc). We are talking about the top 1% of the top 1% of drivers here.



Is it physical strength, or what that prevents women from taking that ultimate step, or is it just a male/female issue (i.e. not enough women get into karts, etc at 4 years of age?). I would be interested to know (or at least hear theories)

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[Rap]

I'm sure there are some woman athletes who are stronger than us. Perhaps as you suggest it's lack of direction at an early age or just not enough role models. Give them enough time and they will invade, participate in everything. But screw quotas, we don't need another thing dumbed down in this world so everyone can participate. Be able to do it or don't.

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[AJG]

Do or do not! There is no try mmmh!

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[craigawoodman]

AJG - that sounds like exteme motorcycle stunts. How do you learn to do that? Do or do not - there is only pain if you fail. Who in their right mind thinks - I am 40 foot off the ground and I can throw my bike away, no wait I can get it back, or do a couple of loops, etc. You watch these guys (I am yet to see an extreme MC stunt person who is female - probably too sensible) and they make it look easy. But you know that if you even tried one of their most basic tricks - it would end in most likely death.



Try you must young skywalker, feel the force.

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