re countersteering faq please post mjs sys uea ac uk mike sixsmith writes mjs no no no no all i am saying is that you don t even need to tell people mjs the technique of countersteering cos they will do it intuitively the first mjs time they try to go round a corner karr cs cornell edu david karr writes karr are you sure remember that you can get around corners without karr countersteering in fact my experienced rider course instructors karr claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike karr turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight karr around even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite karr direction i admit i ve never actually seen this i ve experienced this back when i was young er and more foolish my first bike used to track extremely true going down the highway i would set the throttle tension screw up enough to hold the gas steady slide back on the seat and lean against the backrest riding without any hands if i needed to turn i d shift my weight into the turn and lo and behold the bike would turn sans touching the bars granted it wouldn t turn very fast but it proves that you can turn a bike without countersteering at least not in terms of the input to the bar normally associated with countersteering as i ve said i know many people who think all you do is lean and any input they re giving to the bar is totally unconscious whereas that may be sufficient to get you down the road under normal circumstances possibly for years at a stretch i can t think of anybody who d argue that this is preferable to properly knowing how to manipulate the bar in a turn regardless of what you want to call it except maybe for mr sixsmith mr bill bill leavitt cbx white lightning gs g suzibago leavitt cs umd edu cj little honda lone star sick leave dod ama icoa nia impala convertible the incredible hulk others hmmm i thought bore and stroke was the technique michael bain
