re countersteering sans hands so how do i steer when my hands aren t on the bars open budweiser in david gibbs replies just in case the original poster was looking for a serious answer i ll supply one yes even when steering no hands you do something quite similar to countersteering basically to turn left you to a quick wiggle of the bike to the right first causing a counteracting lean to i guess i was semi serious without using my hands i lean and the bike turns when leaning a torque is applied at a deg angle to the front wheel s axle just as in countersteering however this torque is also about deg from the axis of the steering head instead of making the bike lean gyroscopic effect makes the bars turn but i don t remember which way rick oh yeah i tried this in the driveway on the centestand as suggested somewhere else but it doesn t seem to work the same rick clarke clarke bdrc bd com ama something something
