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by dahart 2984 days ago
Well, my description isn't amazing or as clear as it could be. ;) There should be a way to explain this without technical vocabulary.

How about this? If you sit still on a moving bike, and you don't try to lean, bike steering changes your lean. While you are turning your wheel further to the left, your lean to the right is increasing (your right side turning radius is decreasing).

That's it. That works for negative angles and negative lean, meaning if you're steering right and leaning right, then you start moving your wheel to the right, your left lean increases because your right lean decreases.

And it's always true. No matter where you start, you could be already turning left or right, steering more to the left always sharpens your turn to the right.

Does that make any more sense? I really do want to find a better way to describe counter steering so it becomes more intuitive and easier to understand.

1 comments

Yes, that explanation made much more sense, thank you for taking the time to write it. I'll have to check for that next time I'm on a bike.