Originally Posted by
Stucky
O-K, now as for the part about countersteering at any speed above zero: I need a refresher on that! I'm going to get out a bike and experiment. I am STILL under the impression that I've steered by turning the bars in the direction that I wanted to go, when going very slow.
I'm sure that if I ride around in a small circle at c. 4MPH, the wheel will be turned in the direction that i am going. Maybe not. Off to the "physics lab"! [It was recently mowed! ]
Countersteering doesn't mean that the bike isn't steered into the turn while it's turning. Steering away from the turn direction is to initiate the lean; once the leaning is underway, a bicycle's geometric trail causes it to steer into the lean, aka into the turn.