Originally Posted by
BlazingPedals
Remember that, no matter what it looks like, bikes are constantly falling over when they're being ridden. The secret is to steer *into* the fall just enough to recover and start falling in the other direction. The net result is to stay upright.
Thanks for this. A while back I was trying to remember how that went, steering toward the direction you're falling, or the opposite way. Balancing a bike is something that's so ingrained into my brain that I do without thinking, that I can't do it if I think about it. But yes, you'd have to steer the direction you begin to fall.
And this is why the faster you go, the easier it is to steer, and why when you're riding slower you move the handlebars more than you do when you're going fast.