The road pushes the contact patch to one side; it would be quite remarkable if that got them to pivot around the contact patch, since the contact patch has no leverage to use itself as the centre of the roll axis.<p>By centre of gravity, to be clear, I meant the roll axis running through it. I used the word rolling precisely to refer to the roll axis.<p>Gyroscopic effects definitely complicate things - steering takes more effort at speed - but the fundamentals of counter-steering is that it rolls the bike due to torque from a reaction of the road against the angle of the front wheel.<p>(FWIW, I don&#x27;t own a car and use motorbikes as my main form of transport; I do about 15k a year, a mix of city commuting and long distance touring. Smaller, lighter bikes are easier to apply extreme countersteering to, and I do often in the city, so I&#x27;m well aware of what actually happens when I steer harshly, which exaggerates the effect of everything described. For example, sharply countersteering upright will push the front of the bike into the air.)