re countersteering sans hands in article apr cs cornell edu karr cs cornell edu david karr writes in article gbnvgw quantum qnx com dagibbs quantum qnx com david gibbs writes 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 occur to the left this sounds suspiciously like black magic to me if by quick wiggle to the right you mean that the handlebars turn toward the right before turning to the left what is the input to the steering mechanism that makes this happen in the absence of the old shove shove well as many a bored bike tourer can tell you the way to steer sans hans is to push your body off to the side you want to lean say you want to turn left you push your body off to the left to do this you have to push against something and the only thing to push against is the ground through the bike well the apple guy wozniak or was that churchill says that the ground will push you right back so you pushed yourself off to the left by pushing on the ground to the right and the ground pushed back toward the left well that push is on both wheels the rear wheel doesn t care unless you have serious bearing problems except of course on the spagthorpe dragonfly which had the revolutionary countersteering contra shaft drive rear end but the front wheel has trail if the ground pushes the front wheel toward the left at the contact patch the trail will cause the wheel to turn to the right hey there we are no hands counter steering dave svoboda svoboda void rtsg mot com i m getting tired of concours mmmmmmmmmm beating you up dave rz ring ding woops you never learn ama dod cog chicago beth bruiser dixon
