re countersteering to know or not to know what is the question on wed apr gmt mjs sys uea ac uk mike sixsmith said mike lotto husc harvard edu jerry lotto writes me the understanding and ability to swerve was essentially absent among me the accident involved riders in the hurt study mike i would agree entirely with these three paragraphs but did the hurt mike study make any distinction between an ability to swerve and a failure mike to swerve yes it was specifically the ability or understanding of the technique which was absent we have made a lot of progress between rider education and responsibility over the last ten twenty years but i am still amazed anytime i teach an erc how many people of many year riding experience discover countersteering for cornering or swerving mike everything else hard braking and swerving tend to be mutually exclusive mike manouvres did hurt draw any conclusions on which one is generally mike preferable the specific recommandation cited in the hurt study was that a formal street strategy like sipde for example was the most important component of any rider education curriculum the specific skills of emergency braking cornering and swerving must be taught and practiced as well but more significant was that of rider did nothing confronted with a potential accident and another third collided or fell over as a result of rider error the choice of specific maneuver is much less significant to the outcome than early detection and the proper execution of any effective countermeasure jerry lotto lotto lhasa harvard edu msfci hogssc bcso ama dod chemistry dept harvard univ it s my harley and i ll ride if i want to
