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![]() "thunder" wrote in message news ![]() It might help to explain, pushing left *initiates* a left turn. I think everyone understands motorcycles turn by leaning, and pushing left is the quickest way to get that left-hand lean. If you kept pushing left, you wouldn't be turning, you would be on the ground, on the left hand side of the motorcycle of course. I found this one paragraph from one of your links quite clarifying. "If we intentionally move the contact patch line from vertically beneath the Center of Gravity, the bike will start to lean. For example, if while riding the bike straight ahead, we press on the left bar the front wheel points to the right. The front wheel tracks to the right (sometimes called "out tracking"). So the weight of bike and rider is now to the LEFT of it's "support" on the ground, the tire contact patches. Because the weight is to the left, the bike leans to the left. It is important to note, for a LEFT turn, we initiate a lean to the left by pressing on the left bar, turning the front wheel to the RIGHT. This is often referred to as COUNTERSTEERING: a turn to the left initiated by turning the front wheel to the right." I agree with the "initiates". It is an interesting action though and may be readily experienced if you ride straight and level at a constant speed, then very gently push one of the bars without leaning or correcting in any other way. Push too hard and you *will* have to take corrective action, otherwise you will go down. Oh, well. Enough of that. Eisboch |
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