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Old 05-08-13, 05:11 PM
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Sreten, I believe you may have misunderstood what CNY actually said.

Originally Posted by cny-bikeman
Again, I'm not speaking of the bike lean, or about the setup of initially turning the wheel counter to the turn direction, but rather the upper body, and it's the inside foot that is put down. Perhaps I would be more accurate to say that they fight leaning inward wth the bike and instead keep their upper body more upright. In any case it's a small point, and typically done only by very casual riders.
This makes sense - people don't always like to lean with the bike, so if they're turning left they lean their upper body to their right, but because the whole bike is being leant over to the left, the overall effect is their upper body stays upright. The same people often prepare to put their inside foot (in my example the left) down in case they fall.

This isn't a particularly good way of doing it.

Either way, the initial comment might not've been clear, but there's no contradiction.
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