{"id":41278,"date":"2025-08-03T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41278\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:42:09","slug":"which-foot-do-you-tend-to-lead-with-for-mountain-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41278\/","title":{"rendered":"Which foot do you tend to lead with for mountain biking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.singletracks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fox_union_flat_pedal_bike_shoe-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fox_union_flat_pedal_bike_shoe-1-1170x780.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a cyclist's foot wearing an olive green Fox Union flat mountain biking shoe, positioned on the pedal of a light blue mountain bike. The background features a natural, wooded setting with earthy tones and foliage.\" class=\"wp-image-681157 lazy\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We recently spoke with mountain bike skills coach Dylan Renn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singletracks.com\/mtb-tips\/how-to-get-better-at-turning-your-bike-both-directions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about cornering<\/a>, and it turns out that for many riders, it\u2019s easier to corner in one direction than the other based on their lead (front) foot. Now, we want to know the split between left- and right-foot forward riders.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure which foot you lead with, stand up, pedal a few strokes, and then coast. Your front\/lead foot will be the one, well, out front.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus for the comments: Is your lead foot on the opposite side of your dominant\/writing hand, or the same side?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We recently spoke with mountain bike skills coach Dylan Renn about cornering, and it turns out that for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[4225,4955,64,63,3171,36392,36394,7285,784,13962,36393,580,18140,35068,3186,18572,36391,44,36395,85,5396,319,39,14329,3605,7776],"class_list":["post-41278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-article","tag-articles","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bike","tag-bike-blog","tag-biking","tag-blog","tag-cycling","tag-do","tag-foot","tag-for","tag-lead","tag-mountain","tag-mountain-bike","tag-mountain-biking","tag-mtb","tag-news","tag-singletracks","tag-sports","tag-tend","tag-to","tag-top-stories","tag-which","tag-with","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}