Pendulum motion when riding out of the saddle When riding out of the saddle, you will often have to rock the bike laterally for stability.
My question is: how do most people synchronise this pendulum motion with their pedal stroke?
In which direction and when should the lean be in relation to the moment you push down on one pedal?
Personally, on each stroke I lean the bike on the side of the foot pushing down, but this GCN video seems to demonstrate the opposite: leaning the bike on the side of the foot not pushing down.
EDIT:
More specifically, what I do is I am leaning the away from the 'push down' side just before I push down. At the instant I do push down, the bike inevitably leans towards the push down side, reaching maximum lean when the foot pushing down reaches the bottom of the stroke (which is when the other foot starts the next stroke).
You lean the bike in the direction of the leg pushing down? That's quite unusual.
When you sprint, you're effectively throwing all your weight on one leg, then the other. If you were to just stand on one pedal with the bike vertical, you'd flip over the bike from the one-sided force. To counteract this asymmetry, most people lean the bike opposite to the downwards leg.
This also gives you an effectively longer crank for more leverage, as the leaned-up side will have the pedal higher than normal max, while the leaned-down side will have the pedal bottoming out at lower than normal minimum height.