Don't confuse body steering with shifting weight on corners, when you see riders hanging off the side of a bike in a corner it basically allows the bike to be more upright as they come out of the corner so you can get more power on more quickly.
What tends to happen is that everything you do on your bike to make it steer ususally results in you countersteering. Eg when you shift your weight to the inside you put pressure on the inside bar and hey presto you've just countersteered. The majority of people don't realise this and think that by moving around they are making it steer.
Good stuff
It's really all about standing around drinking Dave's beer.
2008 ZRX1200 Greeeeen Roadie
2016 KTM Superduke 1290 Oraaaaange
2016 Seadoo RXTX300
Too many toys.......work is getting in the way!!!!
I steer by weighting my foot-pegs (as do most other riders on this site)
Nova
That's what you think you do and granted by tilting it over it will steer slightly as they point out in the article. Unless you countersteer though it ain't going to turn much. The thing with countersteering is that most don't realise they are doing it, but trust me you are. Even if you try and intiate a lean by swinging the bars from side to side, the input to the bars is going to provide a countesteering effect.
Cheers
It's really all about standing around drinking Dave's beer.
2008 ZRX1200 Greeeeen Roadie
2016 KTM Superduke 1290 Oraaaaange
2016 Seadoo RXTX300
Too many toys.......work is getting in the way!!!!
I steer by weighting my foot-pegs (as do most other riders on this site)
Nova
That's what you think you do and granted by tilting it over it will steer slightly as they point out in the article. Unless you countersteer though it ain't going to turn much. The thing with countersteering is that most don't realise they are doing it, but trust me you are. Even if you try and intiate a lean by swinging the bars from side to side, the input to the bars is going to provide a countesteering effect.
Cheers
I believe, and hope, Nova was having a laugh.
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I steer by weighting my foot-pegs (as do most other riders on this site)
Nova
That's what you think you do and granted by tilting it over it will steer slightly as they point out in the article. Unless you countersteer though it ain't going to turn much. The thing with countersteering is that most don't realise they are doing it, but trust me you are. Even if you try and intiate a lean by swinging the bars from side to side, the input to the bars is going to provide a countesteering effect.
StereoHead wrote:I have noticed that people that try to over analyse tend to have trouble riding...
Yes and no - over-analysing can be detrimental, however analysing to the point of understanding will normally be beneficial.
For example I always counter-steered without realising it and could ride the old GPX reasonably well, but once counter-steering became clear and I became aware of it my riding entered a whole new level.
As with you, reading Keith Code helped alot in that respect.
ty
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ty wrote:I always counter-steered without realising it and could ride the old GPX reasonably well, but once counter-steering became clear and I became aware of it my riding entered a whole new level.
ty
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