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Old 11-22-11 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by carpediemracing
... One is the action necessary to initiate a turn ("push right side forward to turn right"). ...
I was under the impression that this was what was being talked about when talking "counter-steering". Regardless of how you position the bike frame relative to the body, your center of gravity must be to the inside of the wheels if you are going to turn that direction. How you lean the bike affects your steering while in the turn and the tire contact patch (leaning the bike more than your body gives your tires better "bite" at the expense of your ability to make corrections to your trajectory and vice verse), but the basic physics of where your CG has to be relative to your wheels doesn't change.
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