Originally Posted by
bruce19
Yes I know. I am an MSF Instructor. I was just wondering if you knew what it was called or were just doing it instinctively. When you push on the left bar it leans the bike over to the left. Straightening it out leaves you in a left arc. Car drivers who are new to motorcycling often get in trouble because they attempt to turn left by "steering" the bars to the left which, of course, puts them into a right arc.
This is a forum, not a classroom. Leading questions are generally considered an insult unless you are in an explicit classroom environment. Just say'n. Also, bicycles have a CG about a foot or two higher than a motorcycle; I'm pretty sure this matters quite a lot. On a motorcycle, the CG is well below the rider and is dominated by the weight of the bike; the rider controls the bike only through steering and less through body weight distribution. A bicycle has a high CG and is dominated by the weight of the rider. The rider can steer through both mechanisms of steering and weight distribution.
There are lots of places to put your weight on a bike. You can certainly countersteer without explicitly putting weight on the inside bar. What weighting the inside bar does is shift your weight to the front wheel (which is the one doing the turning). This stabilizes the bike through the corner and allows better control over it's line. That it also initiates a countersteer is an added bonus you actual have to control least you cut the corner over sharp.
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