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Hank

On 2/15/2014 12:13 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/14/2014 11:16 AM, HanK wrote:
On 2/14/2014 10:23 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/14/2014 10:14 AM, BAR wrote:
In article om,
says...

On 2/14/2014 9:30 AM, KC wrote:
Yup, counter steer, then steer, then countersteer again.... got it...
but not "through the corner".. your own pics are clear.... thanks....

I hope you can remember all that in the middle of a critical turn.

I rode a motorcycle on the roads for about 5 years. I never thought
about how to steer
through the corners, it came naturally maybe due to all of the bicycle
riding that I had been
performing in the preceeding 20 years.

You just said it in a nutshell. It becomes intuitive because you
learned its how you get around a curve. You don't even realize what you
are doing until you really think about it or we get in a discussion like
this.

The reason it became intuitive is because without counter-steering ..
you crashed.

However, understanding what counter-steering is all about can get you
out of an unexpected dangerous situation, like avoiding a deer or
something that fell out of the back of a pickup truck.

I remember reading a motorcycle safety article years ago. When riding,
the bike will track in the direction you are looking, simply due to
unconscious reactions you make to seeing road ahead or objects on or in
it. If you see and concentrate on a big pothole coming up in the road,
you will naturally tend to head for it initially. That's where
understanding effects like counter-steering becomes important.

Do you recall when we came across an alligator in the middle of the road
on a curve. I forget how we instinctively dealt with that obstacle.

I think we pulled a wheelie to get the front wheel over him and then
when it came back down, locked the front brake and lifted the rear wheel
over him. Not too hard on my Softail but it looked kinda funny on your
Goldwing.

Ya. It's all coming back to me now.