data.3news-bydate.test.rec.motorcycles.104563 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Jody Levine)
Subject: Re: Countersteering_FAQ please post
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (David Karr) writes:
>In article [email protected] (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
>>
>>No No No No!! All I am saying is that you don't even need to tell people the
>>technique of countersteering, cos they will do it intuitively the first
>>time they try to go round a corner.
Some will, and others will steer with their tuchuses. I don't know how much
the teaching of countersteering in the beginner course really helps the
tuchus steerers. I was one, I guess that I always steered a bicycle that way,
and I only got the hang of countersteering in normal riding *after* the course.
I could do the countersteering swerves in the course no problem, but I only
started using it in my normal riding when I decided that my turning at speed
(off-ramps and the like) was a lot more difficult that it should have been.
I knew how it works (although that's currently up for debate) definitely knew
*that* it works, as I could do it in swerves, but only figured it out later
in my normal riding. Just a data point. I think that it's not a bad idea to
bring the idea up, but it's best to let everyone tuchus-steer for the first
lesson or two, so they can learn to shift gears before they have to worry
about proper handlebar technique.
>countersteering. In fact, my Experienced Rider Course instructors
>claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike
>turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight
>around, even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite
>direction. (I admit I've never actually seen this.)
I have. In our beginner course we had passenger training. Sometime during
the lesson the instructor would hop on the back of the bike, and the student
would take him for a ride. If the student did not give the instructor the
"you are a sack of potatoes" passenger speech, the instructor would steer
the bike and make a general nuisance of himself. It was amusing to watch,
I'm just happy that it didn't happen to me.
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