Road Cycling - Counter Steering Revisited

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gazedrop
02-21-04, 02:56 AM
I'm curious as to how many people actually tried the experiments that I outlined in the original post:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=45470

What I was trying to do was not just say: "This is how it works. Deal with it," but instead to give people a means to demonstrate it to themselves...

So what I am curious about is: What are the impressions that people got from trying them out?

Comments?

Thanks!

SuperTrooper
02-21-04, 10:45 AM
Yup...do that on a motorcycle and it works great!
AdrianB
02-21-04, 11:57 PM
Tried it.

Freak out!

Works good.

Now even better

Use it often

Rock on!

*belch*

watlito
02-22-04, 07:17 AM
Great explanation and very helpful. I use counter-steering on the mountain bike when navigating slow tight switch-backs. With so little momentum, it should have little rotational effect, but it seems to work. Is this a "placebo" effect?
skiahh
02-22-04, 12:15 PM
As they say in Motorcycle Safety class, "push right, go right. Push left, go left." Meaning, if you push with your right hand (which seems wrong, intuitively), you'll start a right hand turn. I guess I always knew that intuitively from riding, but once it was pointed out to me and I knew it mentally, too, it made a world of difference.