Hi Lawn,
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yeah love that countersteering use it every time i ride ,it tips the bike into corners so much quicker,when you get use to it you wonder how you ever rode without it...



Believe it, you and anyone who has ever piloted a MC at speed, has counter steered. To try to turn a mc by conventional bicycle steering is next to impossible. In panic situations the rider will steer the way they want to go. Turning in the direction they want to avoid. You can always tell a newbie rider by the way they go round corners. WIDE.

I teach newbies by showing them that a mc can be steered in the direction they want to go, if and only if, their speed is less than 3 mph or so. Anything above that and they are counter steering and will turn to the direction they want to steer away from. About the only time we can steer the mc in an intuitive way is at walking speeds. Thus the emphasis on training. Rider’s tend not to think about the mechanics of piloting a motorcycle. That is until they must avoid an obstacle. Then they try to reason and that reasoning gets them in trouble. Counter steering is counter intuitive. Thus the need to practice emergency avoidance maneuvers.

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