Originally Posted by
BCRider
If you're more used to driving a car you may well be conciously trying to steer it "normally" rather than steering it using this counter steering method. Cars and bicycles have absolutely nothing at all in common when it comes to steering. If you are confusing the two methods your brain and muscle signals will be fighting each other and wobbles is the outcome. You sort of make it around the turn or obstacle but when it's all over you're not really sure how, right?
That's exactly the feeling I'm getting *all the time* when I'm not traveling straight at a good clip
. When I try to avoid something, or have to slow down to yield on a right turn, or when I'm not paying attention
, the bike just goes wobbly for 3-4 swings before I either pick up speed, or drop off the bike in some pretty embarrassing posture (yes, test driving bikes was very embarrassing the whole time). And because of this, I become paranoid when I had to shift or make hand signals. In general, it is just not intuitive to me how to recover from a slight loss of balance effectively.
My bike skills in general is very poor indeed (I never learn to bike probably; I "learned" at 15 by being left behind by a bunch of friends in a camping trip with a rental, on a 45mph single lane full of semis
). I'll go read up and practice. Thanks for the explanation.