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MineralMan

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9. Yup. People do it without realizing they are doing it.

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2015, 10:56 AM

May 2015

Understanding counter-steering is really, really important for motorcyclists, though, as you learned. If you understand it, you'll use the technique better than before. Being conscious of it can save your life in an emergency situation, where an instant direction change is needed.

Thanks for posting this important information.

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It's as easy as riding a bicycle, once you learn how you never forget [View all] Fumesucker May 2015 OP

Don't you just lean to the left to get the bike going that way? brush May 2015 #1

While it's been a very long time since I've ridden a bike, SheilaT May 2015 #2

Of course you use the handlebars . . . brush May 2015 #5

I'd been riding motorcycles a couple of years before I realized how it actually works Fumesucker May 2015 #4

I'm not convinced brush May 2015 #6

Turning the handlebars the opposite way is how the lean angle is established Fumesucker May 2015 #7

Corollary: It's as easy as falling off a bicycle pinboy3niner May 2015 #3

There are two reasons countersteering works so well IDemo May 2015 #8

Yup. People do it without realizing they are doing it. MineralMan May 2015 #9