Funny thing... back when my experience was less, I actually tended to pull on the opposite bar.   Accomplished the same thing...just backwards to what you're supposed to do.

Now that I know what I'm doing, I tend to consciously press the bar. I probably still do the other though sometimes.

Anybody else do this? Pulling on the left bar to go right and vice versa? Maybe there's an ergonomic reason I sometimes do that.

Hmmm... If I pulled on the bar before, maybe I partly understood countersteering on a very primal level. Maybe I just didn't fully realize what I was doing... Maybe my memories are getting fuzzy. Maybe I'm a little confused. Maybe I'm confused about being confused. Or undecided...

Do it however, just be Aware that you do it all the time, even when you think you're running a straight line. Remember that
Ohh I'm not gonna fall again
moment , when you were learning to ride a bicycle?
Cranking the bars left and right, trying to run the bicycle back under your butt? We use input to control the bike, and some of it is very subtle and we just Do it, without thinking. But When you are aware of the technique and Know how it works, then if you get in abind, and seriously need to make the bike Do something, NOW, a quick flick of the bar can hop it from one lane to another. A woman forced me to prove that, at about forty.

Anyway...

What do you think of the link I posted above?

Interesting accusations?

cheapnewb24 wrote on 04/23/16 at 17:21:10:


If you really believe that article, then MSF couldn't survive another season.  waivers don't excuse neglect.