re countersteering faq please post in article apr cs cornell edu karr cs cornell edu david karr writes in article mjs zen sys uea ac uk mjs sys uea ac uk mike sixsmith writes no no no no all i am saying is that you don t even need to tell people the technique of countersteering cos they will do it intuitively the first time they try to go round a corner some will and others will steer with their tuchuses i don t know how much the teaching of countersteering in the beginner course really helps the tuchus steerers i was one i guess that i always steered a bicycle that way and i only got the hang of countersteering in normal riding after the course i could do the countersteering swerves in the course no problem but i only started using it in my normal riding when i decided that my turning at speed off ramps and the like was a lot more difficult that it should have been i knew how it works although that s currently up for debate definitely knew that it works as i could do it in swerves but only figured it out later in my normal riding just a data point i think that it s not a bad idea to bring the idea up but it s best to let everyone tuchus steer for the first lesson or two so they can learn to shift gears before they have to worry about proper handlebar technique countersteering in fact my experienced rider course instructors claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight around even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite direction i admit i ve never actually seen this i have in our beginner course we had passenger training sometime during the lesson the instructor would hop on the back of the bike and the student would take him for a ride if the student did not give the instructor the you are a sack of potatoes passenger speech the instructor would steer the bike and make a general nuisance of himself it was amusing to watch i m just happy that it didn t happen to me i ve bike like jody levine dod kv got a you can if you pf jody p levine hydro on ca ride it toronto ontario canada
