Quote:Unfortunately that couldn't be further from the truth. When you weigh 1/3 of the bike, your weight shifting only has so much effect and the faster you go, the less of an effect your weight has. After that, you need to be very proactive with the bars. If all you're doing is putting around town you may get away with the weight-shift technique but when it comes time to navigate a real curve at real speeds, you better be ready to force those bars the wrong way or you're going off the road.
Actually, Mike, if you go back and look at my message, you'll find that at no point did I make any mention of shifting one's weight around to initiate a turn. What I did say is that if you know how to ride a bicycle, you already know how to counter steer. You steer a bicycle
properly by counter steering, not by throwing your weight around. In fact, anyone who's ever ridden a mountain bike on the loose stuff knows that there's no quicker way to go down than to get your center of mass all out of kilter with your lean angle.
I stand by my original statements, which are: 1) If one knows how to ride a bicycle and/or has ridden a motorcycle in anything other than a straight line going faster than a couple mph, one has already demonstrated the ability to counter steer 2) Steering a motorcycle is fundamentally similar to steering a bicycle. One only has to make some adjustments, usually in the timing/location of the turn-in point, to account for the larger mass of the motorcycle and the higher speed that a motorcycle typically travels at.
We're never going to get better at it by talking about it, guys. Why don't we just go ride and give it a rest?