Originally Posted by
steve-d
. The counter lean info is not of great assistance. Counter steering is intuitive if you've ridden a bike or MC. You don't 'think' about counter steering. If you start, in the words of Carroll Smith, other sports beckon.
I have to disagree with this. Once you learn that the bike turns by putting it over on angle, and that you can tighten or open up the radius of the turn by how much you press down on the inside handlebar, a whole new level of control opens up.
If you get the "Phinney method" its comparitvely easy to alter your line in a high speed turn, such as to avoid obstacles, or to deal with an unanticpated descending radius turn.
Without this understanding and technique, its much harder to alter your radius in the turn, and you're stuck on the arc you started with entering the turn.
See the Andy Schleck example cited above.